Reading, Spelling, Grammar, & Vocabulary

This Essentials Student Workbook provides the student pages for hundreds of games and critical thinking activities from the Essentials Teacher's Guide, Lessons 8-15. Engage your students in learning how English really works!

Essentials Student Workbook, Lessons 8-15

• Not your typical workbook!
• Discovery-based learning activities
• Phonogram games
• Spelling analysis
• Editing practice
• Grammar activities
• Vocabulary development
• Three levels of difficulty allow you to differentiate instruction for multiple levels of students simultaneously
• Clean and simple page layout minimizes visual distraction

More About Essentials

• Discovery-based instruction
• Meaningful practice
• Engaging activities
• Scripted lessons
• Extensive helps and teacher tips
• Accurate and complete phonics instruction
• Phonograms
• Spelling Rules
• Parts of speech, punctuation rules, capitalization rules
• Efficient vocabulary development by learning morphemes
• Differentiated instruction with three levels of spelling and vocabulary

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• Essentials: Multi-Level Reading, Spelling, Grammar, & Vocabulary

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
• Older struggling readers
• Older struggling spellers
• Students with dyslexia

Prerequisites

• Essentials Lessons 1-7

After these lessons

Continue to Essentials Lessons 16-22 and 23-30 

Compatibility

This workbook is compatible with lessons 8-15 in both the Essentials Teacher's Guide, Vol. 1 (2015) and the Essentials Teacher's Guide, Lessons 8-15 (2018).  

Page numbering note: Essentials Lessons 1-15 were previously combined in one workbook. The page numbers from the previous Volume 1 Workbook are printed in parentheses at the bottom of each page in this book for those who are using the 2015 Essentials Teacher's Guide Volume 1 for Lessons 1-15.  

What else do I need to teach Essentials?

Both the Teacher’s Guide and the Student Workbook are needed to teach Essentials. You will also need the Morpheme Flash Cards for Lessons 8-15.

You will also want all of the instructional supplements included in the Essentials 1-7 Complete Set. These materials are significant components of the program; most are used multiple times in every Essentials lesson. They include:

• Spelling Journal
• Basic Phonogram Flash Cards
• Spelling Rule Flash Cards
• Advanced Phonogram Flash Cards
• Grammar Flash Cards
• Morpheme Flash Cards, Lessons 1-7
• 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

Teaching multiple students?

Each additional student will need:

• Essentials Student Workbook, Lessons 8-15 (one per student)
• Spelling Journal (one per student)
• Phonogram Game Cards (two contrasting decks for every four students)
• Phonogram Game Tiles
• Student Whiteboard

Ordering Information

• Order the Complete Set and save 14%!
• Both the Teacher's Guide and the Student Workbook are needed to teach Essentials.

Product Details

• 205 pages
• Paperback
• Black/White
• Weight: 1.25 lb.
• Product SKU: CE2WB2P
  ISBN: 978-1-942154-36-5
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