Give your students their own Building Spelling Skills practice book, ideal for daily classwork or homework. The student book corresponds to the reproducibles in the teacher’s edition, and includes spelling lists and practice pages. The Building Spelling Skills student book provides 30 weeks of daily practice activities covering grade-level spelling words. It includes spelling strategies, word lists, and activity pages.

Please note that student books do not contain answer keys. (Teacher’s editions only.)

See the Building Spelling Skills teacher’s edition for more details on the weekly spelling units.

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