Spellography resources
Explore free, evidence-based diagnostic surveys that complement your Spellography books, empowering you to meet students where they are in making sense of English spelling.
Unlock the power of Spellography surveys
Spellography diagnostic surveys help you test and understand each student’s spelling skills.
Easy-to-administer tests
Easily test students on skills such as sound-symbol (or phoneme-grapheme) correspondences, spelling patterns, and more.
Know what students know
Identify what aspects of English spelling students know and what they still need to learn.
Compare results
Score the survey and compare each student’s pre-test and post-test results.
Evaluate student progress
Determine whether students are progressing in their understanding of spelling concepts and can apply them when spelling.
Spellography Book A: diagnostic survey
In Spellography Book A, students learn the layer-cake structure of the English Language as a backbone for all the following lessons. Book A contains mostly Old English base words. Students focus on developing closed syllable and consonant spellings skills including initial and final blends, digraphs (ck, ng) and trigraphs (dge), hard/ soft c and g, and the doubling rule and -ed and plural suffixes.
Gain valuable insights into each student’s spelling skills with a diagnostic survey specifically designed to inform your instruction on Spellography: Book A.
Spellography Book B: diagnostic survey
In Spellography Book B, students explore the drop e rule and y-rule for endings and gradually learn Latin word form. They seamlessly continue their study of consonant spellings with spellings for /ch/ in Unit 7. Students learn vowel-r spellings in Unit 8 and then proceed to a review of previously covered consonant spellings in Unit 9. In Unit 10, students continue to explore vowel spellings, with the vowel chart and the remaining syllable types. Students study open syllables in Unit 11 and progress to VCe spellings in Unit 12.
Gain valuable insights into each student’s spelling skills with a diagnostic survey specifically designed to inform your instruction on Spellography: Book B.
Spellography Book C: diagnostic survey
Spellography Book C continues students’ investigation of vowel spellings, with a focus on Latin word form and morphology. In Unit 13 students study vowel-teams and -cle syllables. In Unit 15, they revisit their study of vowel-r syllables. The remaining three units in Book C cover long vowel spelling by position in a word or syllable.
Gain valuable insights into each student’s spelling skills with the diagnostic survey specifically designed to inform your instruction on Spellography: Book C.
Spellography Book C: exercises
Spellography Book C includes supplementary activities you can download and share with your students for additional practice.
Spellography Book D: diagnostic survey
The advanced word study within Spellography Book D helps guide students’ access to content words they will encounter in literature, science and math. Students revisit hard/soft g and c in multisyllable Latin and Greek-based words and complex vowel-r spellings. Then, they delve into assimilated prefixes and derivational suffixes. Unit 24 concludes Book D by investigating mathematical language as a model for how to apply word study to content instruction.
Gain valuable insights into each student’s spelling skills with the diagnostic survey specifically designed to inform your instruction on Spellography: Book D.
Spellography Book D: exercises
Spellography Book D includes supplementary activities you can download and share with your students for additional practice.
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