MY KID CAN'T SPELL : Understanding and Assisting Your Child's Literacy Development
Language: English
Published by Heinemann Educational, Portsmouth, NH, 1996
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- New





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BRAND NEW & Collectible. Author signed. Elucidating guide to fostering literacy. Language arts, written & spoken requires mastery of ease of movment in a highly symbolic universe that has been made more complex by over-crowded classrooms, blossoming of "cute" vernacular terms capitalizing on odd-spellings & odd-pronunciations via television, computers, verbal-play capitalized by advertisers of the business world, prolifications of acronyms --- used to USA, how does one learn to write The United States of America with correctly placed capitalization? Then, today's remote learning practices takes its toll. Even adults unknowningly spell poorly now. This is a relaxing guide for home use for young & old in 90 pgs, 8 chapters: 1, Spelling Right from the Start; 2, Is Your Kindergartner or 1st Grader Developmentally on Track?; 3, How Well Does Your Child in 2nd Through 8th Grade Spell?; 4, Is Your Child on Grade Level?; 5, Can Your Child Visualize Words?; 6, How to Identify a Really Bad Spelling Lesson; 7, Spelling & Academic Disaster; and, 8, Supporting Your Child's Education, followed by 2 appendices: A: Spelling Rules; and, B: Spelling Strategies to Use at Home.…
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- Title
- MY KID CAN'T SPELL : Understanding and Assisting Your Child's Literacy Development
- Author
- J. Richard Gentry
- Publisher
- Heinemann Educational, Portsmouth, NH
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- COLLECTIBLE - NEW
- Dust jacket
- None as Issued
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0435081357
- ISBN 13
- 9780435081355
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Advice, How-to, Self-help, Education, Instruction, Teaching, Young Readers, Juvenile, Children
My Kid Can't Spell is a readable and accessible handbook for parents who want to play a more active role in their children's reading, writing, and spelling development. Spelling, after all, impacts virtually every aspect of reading and writing, and it is the key to unlocking literacy. But helping your child with spelling can be confusing. When is the right time to correct misspelled words? How can you help your child move to the next level of development? What are the important underlying concepts to reinforce?
Spelling expert J. Richard Gentry offers timely and practical solutions to many of the problems parents of K-8 children face. The book is packed with tools, guidelines, and strategies that parents can immediately use, including:
- development guideposts to track children's literacy
- tips for helping children progress through early spelling stages
- a spelling test to determine children's level of spelling
- strategies to help children visualize words
- guidelines for identifying poor spelling instruction at school
- ways to recognize if a child has a spelling disability.
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