This 400-page comprehensive presentation of the principles and processes, constituent concepts, conventions and patterns of English orthography is a clear guide for whoever wants to understand them.
The Real Spelling Manual is certainly NOT a set of prescriptions for recycling into an imposed schedule. It does, though, give teachers the means to integrate spelling into their own professionally determined practice.
Chapter titles
A: Introduction
B: Getting started
C: Crucial facts of English spelling
D: Real Spelling builds words
E: Real Spelling links words
F: Getting to grips with sound
G: Phonology: the real sound connection
H: Etymology for spelling
I: The Real Spelling memory
J: Handwriting for spelling
K: Becoming a teacher of Real Spelling
L: Using the machines for word building
M: Misbehaving words
N: Referencing for spelling
O: ‘Language Rescue’ teaching
P: A brief history of English spelling
Q: Spelling reform—or just tidying up
R: A guide to using The Spelling Tool Box
