The effective and fun-filled way to teach spelling to elementary
students

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180
engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school
year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These
lessons may be used as "sponge" or "hook" activities (five-minute
lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick
and choose activities from within the book for the occasional
spelling lesson. Fry teaches spelling patterns by contrasting
homophones (like-sounding words) to help students recognize these
spelling patterns in more complex words. He also boosts students'
spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations,
capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and
more.

* Offers an easy-to-use method for teaching spelling that has
been proven to be effective

* Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons-one for each
day of the school year

* A new volume in the new series 5-Minute
FUNdamentals

This book is designed to be used by classroom teachers,
homeschoolers, tutors, and parents.

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessonsone for each day of the school year. These instructive and fun-filled lessons are designed to boost spelling skills in students in grades 3-8 or be used as remedial for older students.

Teachers can apply the lessons in a variety of ways. For example, they can be used as "sponge" or "hook" activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day). To add variety to the daily curriculum, teachers can pick and choose activities from within the book for the occasional spelling lesson. Written by educational expert Edward B. Fry, this easy-to-use resource offers helpful suggestions for teaching spelling patterns by contrasting homophones (like-sounding words). This method has proven to help students recognize these spelling patterns in more complex words. The techniques and suggestions presented here can enhance students' spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and much more.

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day is presented in a lay-flat format for easy photocopying and can be used by classroom teachers, homeschoolers, tutors, and parents.

Praise for Edward B. Fry

"The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists should be on the bookshelf of every reading teacher in the English-speaking world! It is a tremendous resource that I have used over and over again throughout my career."
Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D., professor of education, Kent State University

"The Reading Teacher's Word-a-Day offers a practical guide for teachers to incorporate vocabulary instruction into their curriculum. Bravo!"
James Hoffman, former president, National Reading Conference, and professor of language and literacy studies, University of Texas at Austin

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6. These lessons may be used as "sponge" or "hook" activities (five-minute lessons to start off each school day) or teachers may simply pick and choose activities from within the book for the occasional spelling lesson. Fry teaches spelling patterns by contrasting homophones (like-sounding words) to help students recognize these spelling patterns in more complex words. He also boosts students' spelling skills by demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and more.

• Offers an easy-to-use method for teaching spelling that has been proven to be effective
• Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons-one for each day of the school year
• A new volume in the new series 5-Minute FUNdamentals

This book is designed to be used by classroom teachers, homeschoolers, tutors, and parents.

Introduction xv

Part I Homophones and Phonics Lessons 1

Lesson 1: be vs. bee 3

Lesson 2: by vs. bye vs. buy 4

Lesson 3: fair vs. fare 5

Lesson 4: no vs. know 6

Lesson 5: to vs. too vs. two 7

Lesson 6: loan vs. lone 8

Lesson 7: tail vs. tale 9

Lesson 8: sea vs. see 10

Lesson 9: lie vs. lye 11

Lesson 10: meat vs. meet 12

Lesson 11: maid vs. made 13

Lesson 12: son vs. sun 14

Lesson 13: dear vs. deer 15

Lesson 14: do vs. due vs. dew 16

Lesson 15: wood vs. would 17

Lesson 16: write vs. right 18

Lesson 17: pole vs. poll 19

Lesson 18: bear vs. bare 20

Lesson 19: tax vs. tacks 21

Lesson 20: bite vs. byte 22

Lesson 21: brake vs. break 23

Lesson 22: mail vs. male 24

Lesson 23: flea vs. flee 25

Lesson 24: shoe vs. shoo 26

Lesson 25: cheap vs. cheep 27

Lesson 26: hall vs. haul 28

Lesson 27: leak vs. leek 29

Lesson 28: roll vs. role 30

Lesson 29: die vs. dye 31

Lesson 30: led vs. lead 32

Lesson 31: eight vs. ate 33

Lesson 32: I vs. eye 34

Lesson 33: ball vs. bawl 35

Lesson 34: base vs. bass 36

Lesson 35: week vs. weak 37

Lesson 36: not vs. knot 38

Lesson 37: rain vs. reign 39

Lesson 38: plain vs. plane 40

Lesson 39: past vs. passed 41

Lesson 40: or vs. oar 42

Lesson 41: beach vs. beech 43

Lesson 42: row vs. roe 44

Lesson 43: pause vs. paws 45

Lesson 44: oh vs. owe 46

Lesson 45: beat vs. beet 47

Lesson 46: pier vs. peer 48

Lesson 47: hole vs. whole 49

Lesson 48: which vs. witch 50

Lesson 49: hail vs. hale 51

Lesson 50: guest vs. guessed 52

Lesson 51: sell vs. cell 53

Lesson 52: cents vs. sense 54

Lesson 53: bread vs. bred 55

Lesson 54: band vs. banned 56

Lesson 55: root vs. route 57

Lesson 56: peak vs. peek 58

Lesson 57: one vs. won 59

Lesson 58: night vs. knight 60

Lesson 59: rose vs. rows 61

Lesson 60: pail vs. pale 62

Lesson 61: in vs. inn 63

Lesson 62: road vs. rode 64

Lesson 63: pair vs. pear 65

Lesson 64: him vs. hymn 66

Lesson 65: fur vs. fir 67

Lesson 66: hair vs. hare 68

Lesson 67: new vs. knew 69

Lesson 68: higher vs. hire 70

Lesson 69: flu vs. flew 71

Lesson 70: great vs. grate 72

Lesson 71: hi vs. high 73

Lesson 72: find vs. fined 74

Lesson 73: so vs. sew 75

Lesson 74: raise vs. rays 76

Lesson 75: way vs. weigh 77

Lesson 76: ant vs. aunt 78

Lesson 77: berry vs. bury 79

Lesson 78: blue vs. blew 80

Lesson 79: our vs. hour 81

Lesson 80: plum vs. plumb 82

Lesson 81: read vs. reed 83

Lesson 82: ring vs. wring 84

Lesson 83: toe vs. tow 85

Lesson 84: rap vs. wrap 86

Lesson 85: warn vs. worn 87