To teach spelling, there is no need for a spelling book; instead use a word list and a dictionary and have students do a lot of writing. (DD)

Examines the assertion that any student at a second- to-third-grade level or beyond who can recognize the base form of a word will also recognize regularly inflected forms of the same word. Subjects are 54 average fourth graders and 56 poor readers in grades six through nine. (CM)

Intended for teachers, authors, and publishers of children's educational materials, this book presents a list of words used by elementary school children in their creative or uncontrolled writing. The list is based on the writing samples of approximately 3,000 children, grades one through six, that were collected during a one-year period.…

A study of elementary school students investigated the effects of immediate feedback during a spelling pretest compared to the usual delayed feedback after dictation of an entire word list. Results indicated a small degree of difference between methods. (Author/DF)

Reports a study of fourteen word lists and proposes a basic list of 240 starter words. (TO)

An experimental program was initiated into the Glenview (Illinois) Public Schools in 1964 to help elementary students learn to spell correctly and to write fluently. The spelling approach was based on the assumptions that students learn correct spelling best from a word list, that an initial test identifies normally misspelled words, and that…