Teaching Spelling - Sitton Spelling Teaching Poster Learn To Spell List - Teaching Posters for Students, Parents and Classrooms - Proofreading, Base Words, Homophones, Homographs, Word Parts, Capital Letters, Rhyme, Teaching Prefixes, Teaching Suffixes and Much More

Teaching Spelling Posters

Each Sourcebook comes with five colorful 18" x 24" grade-level specific Teaching Posters to complement instruction.

Level 1

Teaching Poster 1: I Saw...
A visual demonstration of sentence expansion helps students create longer, more informative sentences.
Teaching Poster 2: Little e
The role of final silent e is explained through a motivational rhyme and lists of words that illustrate the rule.
Teaching Poster 3: There Is No a in They!
Students will no longer be challenged by the spelling of they once they learn this zany rhyme.
Teaching Poster 4: Can You Find Me?
A clever rhyme and a word list alert students that they hear one letter, but must remember to write two, in the double letter words.
Teaching Poster 5: What a Shame!
Words with the same rime, but different onsets, are examined through a poem to help students learn that their spelling patterns may, or may not, be the same.

Level 2

Teaching Poster 1: There Is No a in They!
An expanded version of the clever rhyme helps students spell they.
Teaching Poster 2: Their or There?
A witty rhyme provides a mnemonic device for learning the difference in meaning between these homophones.
Teaching Poster 3: To, Too, or Two?
The homophones are showcased in a rhyme to help students discriminate among them.
Teaching Poster 4: Make More Words
Students learn how to make more words using the four essential rules for the suffixes s/ed/ing.
Teaching Poster 5: Take a Contraction Shortcut
High-use contractions and how they're made are the focus of a rhyme to help students master their spelling.

Level 3

Teaching Poster 1: Their, There, or They're?
A story develops through an imaginative rhyme to illustrate the differences among these often-confused words.
Teaching Poster 2: Until
Students learn to spell until through a rhyming song.
Teaching Poster 3: Word Building
Making words through the use of common suffixes and the rules that govern their additions is showcased in rhyme and art.
Teaching Poster 4: As Hungry as a What?
Students see the value of similes to enliven their writing in the similes-picture match game.
Teaching Poster 5: Watch Out for Homophones
Forty-five high-use homophones are listed as a spelling reference.

Level 4

Teaching Poster 1: Capital Letters
A capital-letters rhyme introduces instances that require capitals, each illustrated with multiple examples to promote their correct use.
Teaching Poster 2: Prefixes—Base Words—Suffixes
A train with cars demonstrates how to stay on track hitching on prefixes and suffixes and the "railroad" rules that govern the "switches."
Teaching Poster 3: Avoid an Apostrophe Catastrophe
A story rhyme presents when to use an apostrophe and when not to use one.
Teaching Poster 4: Their—There—They're—There's—Theirs
Sentences illustrate usage for these often-confused words and tips for remembering which to use.
Teaching Poster 5: More Than One
The five most frequent formulas for making nouns plural complement a clever rhyme that points out language idiosyncrasies.

Level 5

Teaching Poster 1: Pointers from the Proofreading Posse
Seven sequential proofreading strategies suggest a system to "round up" a writer's errors, followed by a reference for standard proofreading marks.
Teaching Poster 2: Word Popping
A rhyme introduces the most common prefixes and suffixes, and the essential rules for using them to "pop" one word into many more.
Teaching Poster 3: Is a Prefix Unimportant?
The important role prefixes play in altering the meaning of words is centerpieced in a poem, followed by a demonstration of how seven prefixes that can mean "not" can change things "a lot."
Teaching Poster 4: Commonsense Strategies
Strategies are introduced to correctly use the often-confused words it's/its, there's/theirs, you're/your, they're/there/their, let's/lets, and who's/whose.
Teaching Poster 5: The Homophone Challenge/The Homograph Challenge
Ninety-two homophone sets and twenty-four homographs are introduced with rhymes to center students' attention on these potential challenge words.

Level 6

Teaching Poster 1: Cook Up a Plural
The "chef" cooks up a no-fail recipe for making nouns plural--just seven essential ingredients.
Teaching Poster 2: You're Invited to a Prefix Party
The students' invitation to the Prefix Party provides the gala details: what-where-when-how to use a prefix.
Teaching Poster 3: You're Invited to a Suffix Celebration
Students celebrate suffixes with an outline of how to add these word parts to words.
Teaching Poster 4: The Look-Alikes
The Sha-Na-Na look-alike trio prepares students to beware of thirty-three look-alike word sets, such as quiet--quit--quite.
Teaching Poster 5: Weirdo Words Defeated
The ancient enigma of the ie/ei spelling challenge ends its long reign with words that are called "the weirdos."

Level 7

Teaching Poster 1: Make Words with Greek Word Parts
Students can expand their vocabulary and word knowledge with the twenty-five Greek word parts introduced, each with its meaning and a word example that illustrates its use.
Teaching Poster 2: Express Yourself
The prefix--word/root--suffix system for making words helps students express themselves.
Teaching Poster 3: Formula for Making Words
The "chemist" suggests a scientific system for making words through the careful combination of prefixes and suffixes to words, and the rules that govern their addition.
Teaching Poster 4: Strictly Speaking
Usage is the focus as an even dozen often-abused words are given strict grammar guidelines.
Teaching Poster 5: Singular--Singular Possessive--Plural--Plural Possessive
The singular, singular possessive, plural, and plural possessive forms are finally made simple through pictures and pointers.

Level 8

Teaching Poster 1: Patchword Quilt of Latin Roots
The "patchword" quilt stitches together forty-four patches, each with a Latin root, its meaning, and a word example.
Teaching Poster 2: Prefix Strategy
A simple, no-fail strategy for adding prefixes to words is related through a rhyme, followed by a listing of the most common English prefixes, their meaning, and a word example.
Teaching Poster 3: Suffix Strategy
A table outlines easy-to-follow essential suffix-addition rules so that students can sidestep a spelling snafu.
Teaching Poster 4: Gifts from Greeks
The eight often-used Greek spellings complement a poem that presents the Greek influences on our English language system.
Teaching Poster 5: The Apostrophe
Students learn how to avoid an apostrophe penalty as they spell and write with the strategies and guidelines offered.