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Unlock the power of word study knowledge with this word study curriculum for kindergarten to adult students

Classroom teachers and learning specialists now have a powerful new tool in addition to SPELL for improving their students’ reading and writing skills.

SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing provides systematic spelling instruction and connected writing and timed reading activities that emphasise the five key components of word study:

• phonological awareness
  
• phonics
  
• vocabulary
  
• word parts and related words
  
• mental images of words.

SPELL-Links deliver effective, research-based word study instruction

The SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing curriculum – including games, hands-on activities and guided self-discovery learning opportunities – makes it easy and fun to implement effective teaching methods that reflect the current research.

• Develop foundational literacy skills
  
• Teach critical word study strategies
  
• Provide scaffolded instruction
  
• Promote active learning
  
• Integrate spelling, reading and writing instruction
  
• Facilitate word study across the curriculum

How to implement SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing your way without using the SPELL assessment software

The SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing word study curriculum is focused yet flexible, featuring 10- to 15-minute activities that can be administered to individuals, small groups or a whole classroom, and can be used in numerous ways:

• Classroom spelling/word study curriculum for grades K-8
  
• Supplement for any K-8 reading and language arts curriculum
  
• Stand-alone remedial or intervention program for K-Adult

How to use SPELL-Links with the SPELL assessment software to teach only what each student needs to learn

Student learning is accelerated when instruction is focused only where needed.

For grade 2 – Adult

• Use the SPELL prescriptive assessment program to pinpoint precisely what type of word instruction is needed
  
• Follow the recommendations of the SPELL assessment software, which link to specific lessons and word study activities in the SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing curriculum, to provide the appropriate instruction.

SPELL-Links includes:

• Spiral-bound curriculum (3-volume set) with teacher and student materials:
  
  • Program overview
    
  • 275 step-by-step activities for one-on-one, small group and whole classroom instruction
    
  • Teacher observation and student self-assessment checklists, scope and sequence charts, word lists and annotated student journal pages

• Companion CD-ROM with reproducible student materials and timesaving teacher resources:
  
  • Student Word Study Journal pages
    
  • Activity worksheets
    
  • Lesson-planning worksheets
    
  • Word lists formatted for printing on 2 × 3½ word cards
    
  • Home Link activity pages for home practice
    
  • Student Progress Chart
    
  • Set of letter manipulatives
    
  • Recommended Sequence of Instruction Chart
    
  • Correlation of every SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing Lesson to the 14 Strategies for Spelling Success!
    
  • SPELL-Links Strategies for Everyday Writing Resource

• Set of letter tiles

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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	SPELL-Links
	DJW60L	CD-ROM, Book	Mac, Win	$369.00	$36.90