With Super Spellers Starter Sets, you have everything you need to bring to life the wisdom of Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction. Building on his research-based approach, Mark Weakland provides lesson plans and tools to create spelling centers and teach spelling strategies. This teacher resource provides a wealth of material, all adaptable to match the needs of your students:
- Seven spelling strategy lessons every student needs to know
- More than 20 lessons for different grade levels
- Pointers, differentiated word lists, sorting masters and correlating word ladders
- Six must-have spelling centers for nurturing independent practice
- A resource-rich appendix
With these resources, your students will notice and remember spelling patterns and words while making connections between spelling and their reading and writing lives.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Lesson Sets for Teaching Spelling Strategies
Chapter 2: Spelling Centers That Support Strategies
Chapter 3: Lesson Sets for Teaching Spelling, Grade Band 1–3
Chapter 4: Lesson Sets for Teaching Spelling, Grade Band 3–5
Biography
Mark Weakland is a Pennsylvania-based literacy coach and consultant with 23 years in public education as a 4th and 5th grade learning support teacher, reading consultant, and Title I reading specialist, K-6. He is the author of resource books for teachers and more than 65 books for children, as well as the creator of various award-winning music projects. Follow him on Twitter @MarkWeakland and visit his website at www.MarkWeaklandLiteracy.com.
