Includes 4 appendices, tables, bibliographical references, and book list.

Teaching Kids to Spell fills the need for a book to help teachers working in either a traditional setting or an integrated language arts program provide systematic, personalized spelling instruction. The authors provide a much-needed bridge between traditional spelling instruction and whole language approaches, showing teachers (and parents, too) how spelling ability begins to emerge in young children's invented spellings, how it grows as children pass through predictable spelling stages, and how eventually every student can attain spelling consciousness and reach a standard of correct spelling.