Reference Materials
(see also Educational Materials)

The Patterns of English Spelling is the only resource book that contains all the rimes (word families) and all the words within each rime.  It also has cross references to rimes that rhyme.  Completely cross referenced to Word Families in Sentence Context. 

The Reading Teacher's List/5000 Words
This is the ONLY scientific listing of over 5,000 of the most commonly used words in exact order of statistically proven difficulty.

The Tricky Words
This is a book of exercises designed for anyone that targets the tricky words of the English language from read/reed and read/red to new/knew/gnu.

If it is to be, it is up to us to Help
This is a manual for setting up an Adult Education Course for Volunteer Tutors and for parents who want to know what they can do to help their child at home. One copy Free to any school interested.

It-ss & Tooze, Apostrophes, & The I Before E Rule
This book is really three books in one! It contains the It-ss and Tooze, Apostrophes, and the I Before E Rule Made Easy.

Rimes and More Rhymes
A resource book for writing poetry and learning spelling patterns.

To Teach a Dyslexic
This is the fascinating autobiography of Don McCabe, the Research Director of the AVKO Foundation. In it he describes what it was that enabled him to learn to read and how his blissful ignorance and stubbornness enabled him to discover an easy, common sense method of teaching other dyslexics how to read and write.

The Teaching of Reading and Spelling: A Continuum from Kindergarten through College
Designed specifically for teachers and parents, this textbook specializes more in the practical methods rather than the theories.

How to Develop Your Own Sequential Spelling Tests is a workshop highly recommended for those teachers who want to individualize the sequential spelling for their students, even those with dyslexia or specific learning disabilities.  However, for teachers who cannot attend such a workshop, they may download a free booklet on how to do so.

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