English Spelling

A dog can be big or little. It can be wet or dry, too! This new series uses fun and familiar items to help children understand and identify opposites. Tightly controlled vocabulary and repetitive text patterns create a listening experience that is engaging and supportive.

The activities in this audiobook help children build their vocabulary, and better understand simple words - mostly featuring short vowel sounds. The exercises within this audiobook contain letter matching, learning alphabet sounds, practicing handwriting, pronouncing short sentences and paragraphs, identifying missing letters, short vowel digraphs, consonant digraphs, and word scrambles! These phonics audiobooks are extremely helpful to children who are learning English as a second language, and many of these activities are specifically ESL exercises.

Do you wish to help your child improve their grammar, vocabulary, as well as spelling skills, to help them in an upcoming spelling bee or simply help them improve their performance in language? If you’ve answered YES, You’ve Just Discovered The Perfect Spelling Bee Guide, With over 400+ Words (level 3) to Help Your Kid Master Comprehension, Writing, Spelling And Usage Of Each Word!

Like many people, you’ve probably used idioms or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But if you were to take a moment to step back and learn about them, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover the mesmerizing and sometimes outright bizarre origins to these fun sayings! In Why Do We Say That?, we have curated 202 of the most regularly used idioms, proverbs, turns of phrases, and colloquial terms that have the most fascinating backstories. For each phrase, we explain how it was coined, how its use evolved, and how it gained its contemporary use.

Young children learn English differently from adults. They have an innate ability to pick up language while taking part in an activity that connects language with images. That's why connecting animals and English fundamentals is a secret way to program the language into your children's brain.

This audiobook offers an introduction to commonly used words and phrases in the Igbo language, with simple introduction for young listeners. Topics covered include greetings, numbers, colors, food, vehicles places, and many others, to build out a strong, early understanding of the Igbo language.

At first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on social media. One would think that competitors in the National Spelling Bee - the most popular brain sport in America - would be the worst off. Counterintuitively, anthropologist Shalini Shankar argues that Gen Z spelling bee competitors are learning crucial 21st-century skills from their high-powered lives, displaying a sophisticated understanding of self-promotion, self-direction, and social mobility.

The Spelling for Kids interactive spelling workbook for kids ages 5-6 features spelling words that will quickly improve vocabulary, reading comprehension, and spelling skills for any child… and it makes a great addition to any school or homeschool curriculum! Your whole family can use our fun and enabling spelling system at home, and schoolteachers can also use it for children in class. They can start their practice one year earlier and at their own pace.

Is your child struggling with spelling or word pronunciation, and you want to help them spell better and pronounce words more articulately without them feeling like it's homework? If you've answered "yes", you've just discovered the perfect audiobook for kids, with more than 350 fun random words to help your child master their spelling in an exciting way that is just the right amount of challenging! Whether your child is getting ready for a spelling bee or not, practicing spelling is essential for them.

After Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021, she turned into an overnight sensation. People wanted to know who she was and how she'd achieved so much while so young. Zaila shares about her family, her accomplishments, her experience of being homeschooled, and so much more in order to motivate and uplift other kids who have small-, medium-, and even big-sized dreams.

This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade four, follows Mike Blunt, a smaller-than-average boy who becomes a batboy for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is constantly teased by the players for being so small. However, one of the players, Roberto Clemente, stands up for him and serves as a role model for how to handle discrimination and prejudice. This audio study presents concepts such as elements of plot and mood, as well as key vocabulary words.

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 out with bad spelling test results! That’s why we created this series of fun spelling audiobooks, which includes over 214 English vocabulary words to practice. This is a great way to make learning fun for everyone, while building your child's confidence and spelling skills. Spend quality time with your child at home, in the car, or when out and about together. Make homework more fun, improve their skills, and so much more!

Drilling the Letter Pairs from Top to Bottom is the second book in the series. Here, we're going to shift gears from Book 1 in order to get you out of your head and into your body. All of the books in the series contain drills, which must be spoken out loud. But, this audiobook has almost no lecture material. After one chapter with a short explanation, review, and instructions on how to use the drills, the rest of the course is made up entirely of sound, letter, and word drills.

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.

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.

Embark on an exciting spelling adventure designed especially for young minds! "Beginner's Spelling: Fun and Easy Words for Kids" is a vibrant and engaging book created to help early learners master the basics of spelling in a fun and interactive way.