Purposeful Design Elementary Spelling Plus Series


...your best resource for developing strong and confident spellers.


The NEW Spelling Plus will easily integrate with any language arts series while providing in-depth and research-based instruction to accomplish the following:

  • Fostering better spellers and readers through explicit phonetic instruction
  • Developing strong decoding and encoding skills
  • Building confidence in emerging readers with high-frequency, pattern, and challenge word lists
  • Providing flexibility for the teacher to be able to add content/subject-specific spelling words to the weekly chapters.




  • Series Features:
  • Full-color student and teacher books
  • Teacher editions include embedded student book pages with answers
  • 36 week-long chapters
  • Cross-curricular connections
  • Activities to accommodate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners
  • Online resources include blackline masters and visual aids


  • Teacher Edition
    A full-color, coil-bound resource with teacher devotionals, objectives, instructions for each student exercise, recommendations for biblical integration, extensive activities, homework suggestions, differentiated instruction, and a link to downloadable supplemental resources. Teacher editions also include:
  • Instruction in proofreading and using proofreading marks
  • Word lists contain pattern words, high-frequency words, and challenge words
  • Extension activities that improve student skills in learning to spell words

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    Teacher Resources: 

    Click to access Spelling Assessment Tools Click to access Spelling Assessment Tools Click to access Best Practices in Spelling Instruction

    Click to access Lesson Planning tools Click to access Teacher Support tools

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