Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice

Provide your students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher's Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills.

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 1, students will learn five spelling words per week in lists 1–14; then eight words per week in lists 15–30 (198 total). One or two sentences for dictation are provided for each list.

Spelling lists include the following:

• short and long vowel words
• adding s and es
• words with sh, nt, nd
• sounds of ow, ar, aw, oa
• present and past tense words

Practice pages for each unit include the following:

• a spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word
• a configuration puzzle for every spelling list
• word sorting
• word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences)
• exercises to find the misspellings and hidden words

Reproducible forms include:

• spelling record form
• individual spelling record
• spelling test form
• spelling list form
• word sort form
• parent letter