Title Details

Kris Yenney is a musician, artist, and teacher. She earned her Master?s degree in cello performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and has performed throughout the United States and abroad. Her line drawings of musicians have appeared in magazines and hang in private collections. Kris complements her performing with a studio of private cello students and conducting three youth orchestras.

POWER SPELLING: What This Book Contains.

The Purposes for This Book and Its Organization.

The POWER Spelling Teacher's Guide.

Inspiration and Ideas for Teachers.

The POWER Spelling Playbook.

Note: All Lessons are reproducible.

Lesson 1: Getting to know your power spelling tools.

Lesson 2: Discovering the history of the English Language.

Lesson 3: Let's create some power spelling clues

Lesson 4: Conquering contractions and possessives.

Lesson 5: Tackling homophones and other confusing words.

Lesson 6: Phonics power: The building blocks of spelling (Auditory and Visual).

Lesson 7: Feeling the sounds of single consonants and digraphs (Kinesthetic).

Lesson 8: Feeling the power of the beat.

Lesson 9: Divide and conquer: Dividing words into syllables.

Lesson 10: Let's pronounce that word correctly now!

Lesson 11: The power of ancient roots (Latin and Greek-Our origin for 60,000 words).

Lesson 12: Focusing on visual power.

Lesson 13: Introducing the Copy Cat Kids.

Lesson 14: Let's grasp and learn those consonant blends.

Lesson 15: Focusing on silent letters.

Lesson 16: I've got those syllables! Got that power beat!

Lesson 17: Discovering how the short vowel works.

Lesson 18: Long vowel sounds and the powerful silent E.

Lesson 19: When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.

Lesson 20: Rules and patterns for the IE, EI words.

Lesson 21: Special two-vowel combinations and sounds.

Lesson 22: The powerful R can control any vowel.

Lesson 23: Discovering how open syllables work (and What's a Schwa?).

Lesson 24: Let's try all the vowel sounds.

Lesson 25: The solid compound word rule.

Lesson 26: Learning about prefixes-Just fasten them in front.

Lesson 27: Three prefixes that have different forms (In-, Ad-, and Com-).

Lesson 28: Magical suffixes-Just add them at the end.

Lesson 29: The rule for adding suffixes after silent E.

Lesson 30: The rule for adding suffixes after final Y.

Lesson 31: The power of suffixes to create nouns.

Lesson 32: Suffixes can create adjectives, verbs and adverbs.

Lesson 33: The doubling final consonants rule (for One and Two-Syllable Words).

Lesson 34: Suffixes make nouns plural in many ways.

Lesson 35: Challenging L endings: -al, -el, -le, -il, ol.

Lesson 36: Words with roots sede, ceed, cede, plus Old Seed.

POWER Spelling Games.

Note: All Games and Ideas are reproducible.

Guidelines and Summary of Rules.

Games 1 through 36.

Ideas (Sample Solutions) for Games 1 through 36.

POWER Spelling Special Lessons.

Note: All Lists are reproducible.

Introduction.

Inspiration and Ideas for Teachers.

Inspiration and Ideas for Teachers.

Tool 1: POWER Clues.

Tool 2: Phonics POWER and Patterns.

Tool 3: POWER Rules.

Tool 4: POWER of the Beat and Syllables.

Tool 5: Pronunciation POWER.

Tool 6: POWER of Ancient Roots.

Tool 7: Visual POWER.

POWER Spelling Certificate of Achievement.

POWER Spelling Index.