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SOURCEBOOK Series for Teaching Spelling and Word Skills
3rd Edition
The SOURCEBOOK Series, 3rd Edition, for grades 1-8 provides the infrastructure to craft a spelling program your way. Opportunities to teach, practice, and apply all the traditional skills and concepts are included in this completely revised edition of the teacher-friendly, easy-to-manage series. One teacher resource book for each level contains everything you need—how to put it together day-by-day, unit-by-unit, from the beginning of the year to the end. You're in charge! Select the activities, tests, and blackline masters in every unit to create a balanced program that's right for you and your students. You'll see the results where spelling really counts—in students' everyday writing!

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Student Practice Books (5 to a package)
Grades: 1-6
You asked for them – cost-effective practice books! Now you can correlate selected Sourcebook lessons in every unit with opportunities for student-created word collections, discovery and reinforcement of essential skills, and extension. All units feature a test-wise proofreading page. The new Practice Books –

• can be used with the 2nd or 3rd Edition Sourcebooks in regular or Special Ed classes
  
• are appropriate for all or selected students
  
• provide summer vacation at-home reinforcement
  
• are ideal for summer school programs

Every basic skill taught in the teacher Sourcebook is reinforced in the student Practice Book. Each book features a complete Core Words List, Priority Words List, Spelling Notebook for a running record of Spelling Words, and essential rules for reference.

TEACHING AIDS

SOME WORDS Vocabulary Mini-Course Series
Use these new mini-courses to give upper grade students the single most research-supported advantage for academic and future success—vocabulary skills! Each vocabulary mini-course is a 32-page consumable booklet, each page with an on-another-paper extension activity. Woven in are multiple tie-ins to related skills to help students make discoveries about our language and how it works. No teacher prep time required—it's ready to go. All priced at $11.99/10-pack.
Click here for more information and to download sample pages.

WORD SKILLS in RHYTHM and RHYME, Grades 1–3
CD-ROM Rhymes/Activity Master Sourcebooks
Extend the Sourcebook lessons with exciting chant-along and read-along CD-ROM rhymes, followed up with over 100 blackline master language-learning activity pages that provide reinforcement of the Sourcebooks' essential skills concepts, strategies, and Core Words.
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Level 1 Snappy Cat Jack delights first graders as the centerpiece of the rhymes and fun-filled activities that engage students in language-learning experiences. Click here for more information and to download sample pages
Level 2 Zing and her frog friends reinforce second grade students' understanding of and facility with communication skills that form the foundation for primary learning. Click here for more information and to download sample pages
Level 3 General Spaghetti and his robust horse, Meatball, amuse young third grade readers and writers with laugh-and-learn rhymes and activities to strengthen students' language facility. Click here for more information and to download sample pages

CORE WORD Activity Cards, Grades 1–3
Each colorful 3.5" x 6" word card features a Core Word with a grade-appropriate activity on the back to reinforce the Sourcebooks' essential strategies, concepts, and skills. Activities extend word experiences beyond the Core Words to strengthen language learning.
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• Level 1 for first grade: Cards for Core Words 1–35, each with a grade-appropriate activity, plus 40 word pattern cards to create hundreds of additional words.
  Download sample word cards for Level 1
• Level 2 for second grade: Cards for Core Words 1–170, each with a grade-appropriate activity.
  Download sample word cards for Level 2
• Level 3 for third grade: Cards for Core Words 1–335, each with a grade-appropriate activity.
  Download sample word cards for Level 3

TEACHING POSTERS
(packaged with each grade level Sourcebook)
Each Sourcebook comes with five colorful 18" x 24" grade-level specific Teaching Posters to complement instruction. Replacement sets are available for purchase.
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Description of Teaching Posters

 

100 WORDS CHART
(appropriate for all grades)
Your classroom source for the alphabetical listing of the
top 100 high-use writing words. Each package contains
five copies of this useful 18" x 24" chart.
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MY SPELL CHECK® K-2 (pkg. of 10)
(suggested for students in grades K-2)
Your students' source for an alphabetical listing of 85 high-use writing words, with sections for animals, numbers, family, clothes, school, days, months, foods, and weather. Each coated card is 8 1/2" x 11", in color on both sides. Package includes a teacher resource of over 50 spelling and writing activities to extend the word bank. Packaged in sets of 10 cards with activities sheet.
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SPELL CHECK® 3-8 (pkg. of 10)
(suggested for students in grades 3-8)
Your students' source for an alphabetical listing of 150 high-use writing words, with references for months, days of the week, common abbreviations, and 75 context sentences for often-confused words. Each coated card is 8 1/2" x 11", in color on both sides. Package includes a teacher resource of over 50 spelling and writing activities to extend the high-use word bank. Packaged in sets of 10 cards with activities sheet.
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TRAINING AIDS

TUTOR ME Training
Learn to use the Sourcebook Series on your own or in a group. Each module includes an Overview of the Series and a grade-specific CD-ROM training to equip you to begin tomorrow. Rebecca Sitton guides you through a complete unit, tells you exactly what to do, when, how, and why. Set aside about two hours to complete the entire CD-ROM or select from the menu the parts of the unit you want clarified. The 20-minute Parent Introduction module puts parents on your spelling team!
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OVERVIEW VIDEO
To request our FREE Overview Video Package, call toll free 888-937-7355 or click here. The video and accompanying material make it easy to determine if this is the right approach for your class, school, or district. It is an ideal informational tool to share with colleagues to introduce them to the SOURCEBOOK Series.

ADDITIONAL BOOKS

SEMINAR HANDBOOK
Increasing Student Spelling and Word Skill Achievement
Your source for follow-along use during live training seminars and for reference after the seminar. Contains over 100 pages of reference information, including the top 1200 high-use writing words in frequency-of-use order.
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WORD-WISE SOURCEBOOKS™
All new art! A fresh, new look! Your source for the best of Dr. Barbara Schmidt and Dr. Maurice Poe's laugh-aloud rhymes for learning spelling and language skills. Thirty-two separate blackline master poems and activities in each book guide students through difficult elements of spelling and language acquisition.

WORD-WISE SOURCEBOOK™ ONE for Grades 1-2 (featuring Wordy Birdy) Download a sample lesson** to try in your classroom!
WORD-WISE SOURCEBOOK™ TWO for Grades 3-4 (featuring Willy Wordster) Download a sample lesson** to try in your classroom!
WORD-WISE SOURCEBOOK™ THREE for Grades 5-6 (featuring Inspector Clue-So) Download a sample lesson** to try in your classroom!

**Sample lessons are PDF files and require Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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