Angling For Words Study Book: (Green)

Angling For Words:

• a step-by-step approach for learning reading and spelling decoding skills
• combines auditory, tactile, and motor channels
• useful with elementary students, ESL, and adult literacy classes

The Study Book (green cover), for students in grade 4 and up, breaks down language/learning into seven basic levels:

1. Short Vowels and Consonants
2. Vowel-Consonant-e
3. r-Controlled Vowels and G(j) Consonant Digraphs
4. VCV Syllable Division
5. Vowel Digraphs
6. Special Syllables and Situations
7. Spelling Rules.

At each level the student is given basic concepts as a starter, and then lists of new words that show these principles in operation, in both sense and nonsense words.

The program has been used with individual students and in small classes of elementary through high school grades. By over-learning the reliable principles of reading and spelling, the student eventually begins to substitute reasoning for guessing.