In Building Spelling Skills, Daily Practice, Grade 4, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Two sentences for dictation are provided for each list. In this new edition, teaching objectives are provided for each of the 30 weeks.

Building Spelling Skills: Grade 1 :
In Building Spelling Skills, 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

The practice pages include the following:
· the spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word
· a configuration puzzle for every list
· word sorting
· word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences)
· exercises to find the misspellings and hidden words