A must for parents who want to help their kids build spelling skills Spelling is an important skill for kids learning to read and write and it's absolutely crucial for the 10 million American children who participate in spelling bees every year. Covering key spelling concepts, approaches, and gotchas from consonant letter blends, vowel sounds, and silent letters to compound words, word families, homographs, and homophones this guide offers parents lots of fun games, lessons, lists, and memory-building techniques to help build kids' spelling proficiency. Tracey Wood, MEd (Toronto, ON, Canada), is a children's reading specialist whose books include Teaching Kids to Read For Dummies and See Johnny Read The 5 Most Effective Ways to End Your Son's Reading Problems.