How to Spell It

by Harriet Wittels, Joan Greisman, Harriet Wittles

Book Overview

A handbook of commonly misspelled words. Includes thousand of words Provides the common errors and lists the correct spelling in red This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448147564
• ISBN13: 9780448147567
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher

Customer Reviews

Horrible speller

I'm a horrible speller, and this book has worked for me. You look up a word by how it sounds and it's listed both that way, and the correct way.

Very Useful

This is a very useful little book. My third and fourth graders think it is great and they learned to use it very quickly. They all have Spanish as their first language and many struggle with English spelling. My one reservation keeping me from giving this book five stars is that, in my case, I would have preferred more primary Spanish specific spelling mistakes, i.e. the endess confusion between the letters v and b. Still, this book has proved to be very useful and I'll be ordering more copies for my class.

How to spell it

This is the single most useful book in my library. I use it several times a day. My congradulations to the Authors forwriting this most useful book. Those of us who do not arrange our internal view of the worldvisually suffer greatly with the spelling of English. This booksolves the major problem for me. For,without this book I can notspell the word close enough for a spell checker to "fix" it.Again many thanks for writing this most useful book.Jonathan Stinehelfer

Spelling help for middle school kids

I am a fourth grade teacher and have used this book in my classroom and recommend it to all my parents for home use. A dictionary doesn't help kids spell. They just get frustrated and never find the word. Using phonetic spelling, this book ACTUALLY helps kids find the correct spelling. Kids fight over these books in my classroom. Great if you want to stop answering those same old "How do you spell ______? questions.

How to Spell It

This is a wonderful book to help any young student, who is having difficulty in spelling. It is a compliment to every classroom. I highly recommend this book.