The next eight lessons of Essentials, for those continuing from Lessons 1-7!

Spelling, Reading, Grammar, and Vocabulary 

Learn Alongside Your Students

Fully scripted lessons and a wealth of teacher resources guide you through every step of teaching the first seven lessons of Essentials! Equip your students for success in reading and spelling as you discover the Logic of English together.

Essentials 8-15 Teacher’s Guide

Essentials Teacher’s Guides, the heart of the Essentials curriculum, contain a wealth of tips and resources to equip both veteran and novice teachers to teach Essentials effectively.

This Teacher's Guide:

• includes 8 clear, scripted lessons, each divided into 5 sections
• introduces 12 new spelling rules
• teaches 17 new multi-letter phonograms
• introduces grammar concepts including verbs, possessive noun adjectives, subject and predicate, comma and capitalization rules, and more
• teaches dozens of new prefixes, suffixes, and roots used in words in the Lesson 8-15 spelling lists

Each Essentials Teacher's Guide features:

• Three levels of instruction in every lesson, making it easy to differentiate and teach students at multiple levels simultaneously
• Extensive helps and teacher tips
• Full-color layout
• Comprehensive index
• Phonemic awareness
• Spelling analysis - detailed charts!
• Grammar instruction and practice
• Phonogram and spelling games, instructions included
• Vocabulary instruction with Latin and Greek roots
• Hundreds of engaging activities, extensive reviews, challenge ideas
• Review and assessments in every lesson

More About Essentials

• Discovery-based instruction
• Meaningful practice
• Engaging activities
• Accurate and complete phonics instruction
• 75 Basic Phonograms
• 31 Spelling Rules
• Advanced Phonograms
• Spelling Analysis helps students develop fluency and mastery
• Parts of speech, punctuation rules, capitalization rules
• Efficient vocabulary development by learning morphemes
• Differentiated instruction with three levels of spelling and vocabulary

Learn More

• About Essentials: Multi-Level Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary, and Grammar

Essentials is Recommended for

• Ages 8 to adult
• Anyone who wants to learn why English words are spelled the way they are
• As a spelling, grammar, and vocabulary program for Grades 2-6
• Struggling readers age 8 to adult
• Struggling spellers age 8 to adult
• Students with dyslexia
• ELL reading and spelling instruction
• Students who have completed Essentials 1st edition and want to review the material a second time with more advanced spelling words and vocabulary

Prerequisites

• Essentials Lessons 1-7

Continuing through Essentials

In Lessons 8-15 of Essentials, continue the same level of spelling list your student used in Lessons 1-7. Once you complete Lesson 15, continue to Lessons 16-22 and then on to 23-30.  

The eight lessons in this volume typically take a quarter to a semester. At a pace of one week per lesson, you will complete all 30 lessons in a school year. At a pace of two weeks per lesson, you will complete about 7 or 8 lessons per semester and about 15 lessons in a school year. Choose whatever pace works best for your students. See scheduling tips.

The entire curriculum, Lessons 1-30, can then be reused up to two additional times at a more advanced level of instruction.

What else do I need to teach Essentials 8-15?

New for Lessons 8-15

• Essentials 8-15 Student Workbook
• Morpheme Flash Cards, Lessons 8-15

Reusable Essentials materials from Lessons 1-7

• Spelling Journal
• Basic Phonogram Flash Cards
• Spelling Rule Flash Cards
• Advanced Phonogram Flash Cards
• Grammar Flash Cards
• 1 deck of Bookface Phonogram Game Cards
• 1 deck of either Cursive or Manuscript Phonogram Game Cards 
• Phonogram Game Tiles
• Phonogram and Spelling Rule Quick Reference
• Spelling Analysis Card
• Essentials 1-7 Teacher's Guide (for reference and review)

Ordering Information

• Order the Complete Set and save 10%!
• Both the Teacher's Guide and the Student Workbook are needed to teach Essentials.
• This Teacher's Guide is designed for use with the Essentials 8-15 Student Workbook. It is also compatible with lessons 8-15 of the Essentials 2nd Edition Student Workbook, Volume 1 (2015).
• This Teacher's Guide is not compatible with the 1st edition Essentials Student Workbook (2012). 
• Available in PDF or print. Choose the format you want from the drop-down menu above. (Learn about downloads.)

Product Details

3rd Edition (2018). Compatible with 2nd edition and 3rd edition Essentials workbooks.

• Casebound, durable hardcover
• 350 full-color pages
• Weight: 3.15 lb.
• Product SKU: CE2TG2P
  ISBN 978-1-942154-28-0

• Downloadable PDFs in a ZIP file
• See PDF license information below
• Product SKU: CE2TG2A
  ISBN 978-1-942154-32-7

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