Students correct their own spellings immediately after each word is given.
Students quickly begin to learn all the troublesome blends and structural endings. Each lesson has cross references to The Patterns of English Spelling and to Word Families in Sentence Context . Homophones are presented when they occur. For example, chews and choose , crews and cruise are presented in the footnotes for presentation to the class if the teacher chooses to do so. The word sage is an 11th grade word in our school's regular spelling text.