After three years of field testing, you too can enjoy integrating your handwriting and spelling program with Read Well instruction. With extended instructional time, Write Well Spelling and Handwriting can be taught along with Read Well small groups, or the program can be used for whole-group instruction in first grade classrooms. Well Spelling and Handwriting provides daily dictation lessons that teach students the process of translating speech sounds to writing. In this program, children learn the first 40 high-frequency words from the American Heritage High Frequency Word List and a total of 74 out of the first 100 most frequently used words. As students progress through the program, they learn to apply spelling patterns, not only in single syllable words and words with endings, but also in multisyllable words.
Students also learn the basic conventions of sentence writing.
By February, our first grade students were writing better than they normally do at the end of grade one. When they need to invent a word, it is readable. Kids are not dropping vowels. The new Alphabet and Picture Wall Cards are printed on a white background with full-color pictures. The Alphabet and Picture Wall Cards can be ordered in either plain or slanted text to reflect the style of handwriting used in your primary classroom.