Building Spelling Skills 6 (Teacher’s Guide)

In Building Spelling Skills, Grade 6 students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list.

Spelling lists include the following:

homophones
blends
vowel sounds
prefixes and suffixes
root words
compound words
words with silent letters
easily confused spellings
spelling multisyllable words
curriculum vocabulary
The practice pages include the following:

the spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word
word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences, crossword puzzles, synonyms/antonyms)
exercises with phonetic elements and other types of word study
editing for spelling