Well-designed spelling lists can support your students’ literacy development. Despite how commonplace spell check and other writing tools have become, explicit spelling instruction is still an important practice.

It is vital that all literacy instructional routines include synthetic and analytic practice activities that engage all four language skill areas.

Teach students to use a word box to practice letter-sound correspondences or syllables for decoding words.

Spelling instruction can be beneficial for students when taught with an emphasis on learning spelling patterns and using the proper spelling word lists.