English Spelling

Want to boost your child’s learning even when they’re not in school? Want to help them build foundational skills? They are in the first or second grade, and this is a prime period for children to absorb new knowledge. And one of the best ways that kids can learn at this age is through listening. The more they’re exposed to talk and interaction, the more their vocabulary expands, and the better they’ll be able to communicate. If you want to encourage this habit while developing other important skills, this learning activity can help you do just that.

Whether you are preparing for a spelling bee competition, or you want to build your vocabulary and learn new words and how they are spelled - this is the audiobook for you! You will hear 501 difficult-to-spell words, with an example of each being used in a sentence. You will spell the word before it is repeated back to you and the correct spelling given. This interactive audiobook will have you at the top level in no time!

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Would you like your child to have better English spelling skills? If so, you're in the right place. Spelling is a critical skill to master for all children. You want your child to be at the top of the class, not getting stressed with bad spelling test results! But don’t worry, help is at hand. We want all our children to feel happy and confident in school and in their own knowledge, and that’s why we created this series of fun spelling audiobooks.

Help your child master the key skill that will make them a faster and more fluent reader. Do you want your child to develop a love for reading that they’ll take with them into adulthood? Do you want them to build a vast vocabulary that will make them eloquent communicators and confident speakers? Try teaching them sight words - words that are meant to be recognized instantly by sight without the need to pause and think about it. These words account for up to 75 percent of words used in young children’s books and other printed materials.

This self-teaching instruction audiobook (in American English) helps with: spelling vowels (long, short, and vowel groups); spelling consonants (including blends); words with multiple syllables; distinguishing between homophones; examples of tricky proper nouns; and much more. This book avoids technical jargon (like diphthongs and phonemes) so that people of all ages and backgrounds can understand the ideas. This makes it handy for English as a second language (ESL) students, or anyone who isn’t fluent with the technical vocabulary conventionally used to teach spelling and phonics.

Spoken Spelling: Getting Down the Basics is the first book in the series Understanding Fast Spelling in Spoken English. This audiobook introduces the sounds of the 26 letters and puts them into three different groups in a brand new way. The audiobook is largely lecture and explanation, with listen-and-repeat drills provided throughout. You'll learn the names and sounds of the letters of English, the three groups that letters are divided into, and the different types of connection points that are created when pairs of letters are spoken.

Are you determined to become the best speller in the class? Are you preparing for the next upcoming spelling bee? Are you looking for a way to challenge your spelling abilities? Perhaps you and your friends are looking to have a spell off! Preparing for the real world can be challenging, however. Knowing how to spell and understanding the vocabulary of each word is imperative for communication, comprehension, and literacy. In this manual, you will discover over 400 comprehensive words for grades four to six with sentences to challenge their spelling.

This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade three, introduces listeners to a variety of animals that are native to the savannah in Africa. As listeners learn about these animals, they are also introduced to the multiple seasons that occur, while also spotlighting the Maasai people who have lived in East Africa for centuries. This audio study focuses on identifying a sequence of events, how to compare and contrast, and key vocabulary words throughout the nonfiction narrative.

This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade five, is based on the real-life events of the Spanish fleet commanded by Ferdinand Magellan in the early 1500s. It follows the adventures of Juan de Zubileta, a young boy who serves as a page aboard one of the ships. In addition to the story, this audio study provides a full lesson on the importance of setting in a story, the three most utilized points of view, and features key vocabulary words.

Technique Builder Exercises Plus, book six in the series, is made up of a technique builder and bonus material. The technique builder is comprised of two contrasting parts: a slow and a fast approach. Part one reviews earlier material, taking a slower approach to basic intonation, and the pronunciation of glides and shortened blocks. Part two of the technique builder also reviews earlier material, but takes a faster approach, revisiting both pronunciation and intonation, with a focus on allowing technique to become fully integrated into the body.

Understanding and Drilling Longer Words, book four in the series, focuses on the principles that must be understood in order to comfortably comprehend or speak longer words. These principles include breaking larger words into smaller groups of letters, or letter pairs, and being able to use breath control to comfortably say those letter groups. We'll extensively drill repeated letter pairs in order to be able to say longer strings of letters on a single breath. We'll also look at the precise ways certain letters can be greatly shortened and still efficiently understood.

We will now move from the drills back into more lecture material. We'll introduce new topics, such as intonation, and examine the different tones used for questions and for answers. We'll also go into more detail on topics already introduced, such as glides. Since our goal is both to easily understand other speakers and to speak with clarity and naturalness ourselves, a detailed look at glides, linking, and clean connections is worthwhile. We'll also compare different types of letter pairs to strengthen our ability to hear and say all letter combinations.

Forget the Technique; Just Speak - The Final Drills from Slow to Sprint focuses purely on drilling. The drill starts with single letters and expands gradually into very long words. The exact same set of letters and words is repeated three times at increasing speeds - slow, very fast, and sprint. In moving to the next level and fully incorporating this technique into our speaking, we want to, in a sense, “forget the technique” and just speak freely. If you run into trouble in any areas with any particular sounds, you can always go back to the technique.

Advanced Concepts and In-Depth Review, book five in the series, explores some more advanced concepts, as we'll look at the idea of "thinking the letter" and letting go of technique. We'll do some speed drills to continue to build up the number of letters that can be said in a single breath. In addition to name drills, there is a troubleshooting section, in which we'll explore how to get help from a speaker in the event we can't understand what they're saying or spelling. This book ends with several chapters of drills.

This interactive spelling practice is all your first, second, or third grader needs to excel at spelling. The follow-along style is optimal for the fastest learning and mastering of spelling.

Wah! Wah! A crying baby is loud. But what about a sleeping baby? You guessed it! A sleeping baby is quiet. Listeners will discover that opposites are everywhere.

"For Freedom of Spelling: The Discovery of an Art" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. It is curious that people do not grumble more at having to spell correctly.

It is no secret that the kids who study the hardest have the biggest chance of winning. I entered my first spelling bee when I was nine years old without studying a single word, and it is safe to say I didn’t make it very far. I spent the whole of the next summer studying, and that year, I came in first place in the county. Are you ready to be a champion, too?

Books in the Hide and Seek series provide an entertaining introduction to some of the words that tell us where things are. This book looks at “On” and “Under”.