This spelling book provides a basis for a fun and exciting spelling curriculum in your classroom. Each Word List has been carefully selected to focus on a specific spelling element that first grade students would encounter in their reading and writing.In addition to the Word List and activity on each worksheet, students are encouraged to make a list of "special words" that they would like to learn to spell. Each lesson also suggests a "writing" activity that complements the page and is intended to encourage student writing. "Extensions" pages provide exercises that require the students to build more words based on the spelling patterns of the previously studied Word Lists.