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  Volumes 1-10 may be purchased separately ($23.95 each) or all in one handy three ring looseleaf notebook (a savings of 59.60) or in two "five packs" (Volumes 1-5 & Volumes 6-10) To View a Sample of the Following from the Patterns of English Spelling click on title
  Vol. #	Patterns	Example	Example	Example	Pages
  1	Short Vowels CVC	dad	get	tin	101-160
  2	Short Vowels CVCC	band	went	itch	201-282
  3	Long Vowels CV, CVCe	go	nice	tube	301-380
  4	Long Vowels CVVC	raid	seem	roam	401-442
  5	-R & W- Controls	tar/war	for/word	wad/ward	501-534

  6	Basic Suffixes	batter	battle	dreadful	601-692
  7	The Ending Y's	destiny	simplify	tricky/trickiest	701-764
  8	Power Suffixes	precious	partial	permission	801-898
  9	Advanced Patterns	techniques	chauvinism	fiancee	901-964
  10	Prefixes/Roots/Suffixes	psychology	photographic	synthesizer	1001-1076

  The Patterns of English Spelling Volumes 1-10 also contain:

• Index of Basic Phonic Patterns by Vowel Types
• The 214 Easiest Words to Learn in Exact Statistical Order
• Roots (Latin & Greek)
• Essential Phonic Patterns Rarely Systematically Taught
• Using the Alphabetic Index of Words as a Teaching Tool
• Using the Alphabetic Index of Words as a Rhyming Dictionary
• Alphabetic Index of Words
• Special Notations Concerning the Difficulty Levels on Scale of 1.00 to 21.00
• Using The Patterns of English Spelling as a Source for Homework Exercises

  Sample Page 214--Compare this page to Sample page in
  Word Families in Sentence Context
  
  ACK BLACK ("BLACK") FAMILY

More Power Vocabulary

Difficulty Levels on Scale of 1.00 to 21.00 are placed inside parentheses, e.g. (5.80 ).  Any word without a difficulty level assigned is probably not taught in any spelling series.

Spelling Demons:  attack attacked  Related Families:   See p. 215  NOTE: -acks = -ax

Homophones:  packs/pax  tacks/tax  sacks/sax   packed/pact  tracked/tract  tacked/tact  lacks/lax   Mac's/Mack's/Max

To compare this page (Page 214) to the "ack, black" page (Page 214) in The New Word Families in Sentence Context, Click here.

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