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The Patterns of English Spelling
Volumes 1-5

by Don McCabe

The First 5 Volumes of a 10 Volume Set

The Teacher's Book of BASIC Word Lists Organized by Phonograms for
Reading/Spelling/Vocabulary Development.

A  Teacher Reference Tool (just like dictionaries and encyclopedias)
it has an index for locating spelling patterns


 Catalog # W101-5 - $89.95          ISBN:  1-56400-235-7      

Completely Cross Referenced to
Word Families in Sentence Context.
8½ x 11 478 pages

To View a Sample page, click on the pattern. 

Each volume may be purchased separately at $23.95.  As a 5 volume set ($89.95) a savings of 29.80

Volume #

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
 

Volumes 6-10 (Just like Volumes 1-5) may be purchased separately or all in one handy notebook
Volume #

Patterns

Example

Example

Example

 Pages
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 fiancée 901-964

10

 Prefixes/Roots/Suffixes psychology photographic synthesizer 1001-1076

The Patterns of English Spelling Volumes 1-5 also contain:

To View a Sample of the Following from the Patterns of English Spelling 1-5 click on title

  • 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

    Click Here To Return to Description of The Patterns of English Spelling Volumes 1-10

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