Teaching Kids to Spell for Dummies (Electronic book text)

A must for parents who want to help their kids build spelling skills

Spelling is an important skill for kids learning to read and write-and it's absolutely crucial for the 10 million American children who participate in spelling bees every year. Covering key spelling concepts, approaches, and gotchas-from consonant letter blends, vowel sounds, and silent letters to compound words, word families, homographs, and homophones-this guide offers parents lots of fun games, lessons, lists, and memory-building techniques to help build kids' spelling proficiency.

Tracey Wood, MEd (Toronto, ON, Canada), is a children's reading specialist whose books include Teaching Kids to Read For Dummies and See Johnny Read-The 5 Most Effective Ways to End Your Son's Reading Problems.