Spelling Mastery

Students in Years 1 to 6 participate in daily Spelling Mastery lessons.

Spelling Mastery builds dependable spelling skills for students in grades 1-6 through a highly structured direct instruction method that blends the following approaches:

Phonemic approach

Helps beginning spellers learn the relationships between spoken sounds and written letters and then apply them to spelling

Morphemic approach

Exposes advanced spellers to prefixes, bases, and suffixes
Combine words and word parts to spell multisyllabic words using a small number of reliable rules

Whole-word approach

Gives spellers at all levels the meaning and root of a word and shows how the word's spelling is influenced
Spell common, high-frequency words which are irregular in their letter sounds
Commit these potentially troublesome words to memory

Spelling Mastery interweaves these three approaches according to students' skill development and provides straightforward lessons to help efficiently and effectively teach the spelling skills students need to become proficient readers and writers.

Explicit instruction, careful selection of spelling words, and repeated and cumulative practice help students master each concept and reinforce and retain key information.

Spelling Mastery Word Lists

Students are regularly assessed on the spelling rules and words taught in class. Students can study their words at home using the lists below.

Please click on your level to access Study and Word Lists