Spelling Works!: Grades 4-8

by Jim Halverson

Book Overview

This reproducible-packed resource will help students become competent spellers while enjoying every minute of learning. Entertaining practice sentences teach and reinforce spelling rules such as the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590120484
• ISBN13: 9780590120487
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic Professional Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

This spelling program works!

This book is outstanding. We have recently begun to use this book in our home classroom for our 3rd, 4th and 7th grade students. The kids are excited when I pull it out because they find it fun, especially my 7th grader who has struggled with spelling. I was skeptical that a spelling curriculum that claimed to be for 4th-8th graders would really work for such a diverse age group, but the lessons are straightforward and the presentation of the spelling rules can be understood easily by most children. Best of all, I have seen results already in their written work, because they are understanding and remembering the lessons. While it is expensive for a softcover book, the pages are reproducible and can be used for many students. Still, if I had just one student I would buy this book and consider it a good investment, because I am seeing better results in this short period than I have seen with anything else we have used over the years.

I think this is working!!!

Thought my rising 6th grader was just a poor speller. Bought this book in the hope that she might improve a little this summer before she started middle school. After just four chapters, I am feeling pretty optimistic that she will improve dramatically. She seems to be grasping the rules and really learning HOW to spell! The book moves through the rules of spelling systematically -- one rule per short chapter. She doesn't mind doing a chapter at a time since it doesn't take that long. It has also made it easy for me to help her practice each rule -- I just create our own spelling list for each chapter. I recommend this book highly!

Makes spelling fun and less mysterious

In an excellent follow-up to his book on grammar, the author again constructs clever and witty approaches to this difficult and mysterious area of learning. He makes spelling fun.