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
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 that were 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:
- separate copy of this Essentials Student Workbook, Lessons 8-15
Both the Teacher's Guide and the Student Workbook are needed to teach Essentials.
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
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 that were 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:
- separate copy of this Essentials Student Workbook, Lessons 8-15
Both the Teacher's Guide and the Student Workbook are needed to teach Essentials.