Washoe County Library System

"Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules, or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression, or your kid quizzes you on homework. Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn't conform to logic. It doesn't work the way you'd expect it to. There doesn't seem to be any rule at all. In Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent...

Provides a variety of lessons, examples, word lists, and activities to teach phonics and spellling.

These forty bite-size word puzzles, spelling quizzes, and vocabulary-filled stories, developed in partnership with the Scripps National Spelling Bee, are perfect for sharing at snack time or around the dinner table. Readers are invited to play with language, investigating sneaky silent letters and the many ways that a word's meaning can be altered by context or spelling. Synonyms, homonyms, and palindromes prevail. Did Mom want two each of several...

100 curiosidades sobre la lengua española que contagian entusiasmo y amor por un idioma que puede ser hermosamente complejo Ramón Alemán, corrector de textos y periodista con décadas de experiencia, nos trae en este libro una guía práctica para mejorar el uso de nuestro idioma a través de anécdotas y ejemplos explicados con rigor, humor y sencillez. En estas páginas, responde a las dudas que nos surgen en el día a día como hispanohablantes...

Every year, tens of thousands of students around the country compete for one of just a few hundred coveted slots at the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals. So how does the novice speller hone his or her craft at home? By spelling constantly, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Each of the warm, inspirational and aspirational notes in Lunchbox Words features a Bee-selected early spelling word used in context and accompanied by its definition and pronunciation,...