Authors Dr. Doug Fisher and Dr. Nancy Frey, educators, and classroom practitioners, collaborated to develop a spelling program unlike any other. Speedy Spelling: Mastering Troublesome Words focuses on the spelling "tricksters" that young writers encounter as they write. It is ideal for summer school or intervention settings due to its brevity—just 12 lessons on the most commonly misspelled words throughout elementary and middle school.

Speedy Spelling helps students focus on the words that give them the most trouble – not on words they already know how to spell.

Highlights of Speedy Spelling: Mastering Troublesome Words:

• Based on spelling and literacy standards
• Builds vocabulary and word awareness for English Language Learners and at-risk students
• Assists students with transfer of spelling skills into every day classroom writing
• Prepares students for better performance on writing tests

Speedy Spelling Student Book provides:

• Tear-off flap with word lists and word games for at-home study
• An analytic approach to spelling patterns and exceptions
• Numerous encounters and practice with each word for mastery
• Student ownership, through self-correction activities, and take-home practice
• Focus on visual representations of word patterns and structural analysis
• Practice with derivatives
• Definitions for all words, Levels B-H and glossary in each book
• Pretest and posttest opportunities

Speedy Spelling Teacher Guide provides:

• Diagnostic placement tests
• Pretest and posttest words and sentences
• Leveled word lists
• Blackline Master activities
• Suggestions for classroom spelling activities
• Lesson plans for 12 lessons

Words are selected from high-frequency lists of commonly misspelled words:

• Words with silent letters
• Words with double letters
• Homophones
• Words that don’t follow traditional spelling rules
• Words that confuse
• Words from other languages
• Words from science, social studies and math
• Words with prefixes, suffixes and endings

Incorporates these research-based techniques:

• Careful word selection
• Pretest-study-posttest approach
• Self-correction
• Strategies for studying unknown words
• Word games
• Word sorting