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Piedmont Education Services is delighted to offer you Spell to Write and Read, an outstanding multi-sensory phonics-based Language Arts program that teaches Spelling, Writing, and Reading--all at the same time! Read on to discover what makes this approach to Language Arts so unique. Or if you're ready to order online click here now! Also, be sure to join the Spell to Write and Read Email Loop for information and support from other SWR users. Read more about the SWR email loop Another avenue of support and learning is through the SWR Seminars. Upcoming seminars include Charlotte, NC on June 22-23 and in Winston-Salem, NC on July 13-14. For complete listing of seminars across the country, please click here.

NEW for 2006! "You Can Do It!" DVD by Britta McColl, Endorsed SWR Trainer is now available, plus other fine products from Morning Star Learning.
Click here to learn about the DVD.

NEW! We've just added the entire line of Back Home Products, click here to see the full listing of products.

Missing page 239 from the SWR book? Download the Spelling Scale in the PDF file format by clicking here.

What is Spell to Write and Read?

The Spell to Write and Read Core Kit (hereafter SWR) is an integrated four to six year language arts program founded on scientifically selected K-12 words taught with proven techniques and reliable rules. It culminates almost thirty years of work by Wanda Sanseri—classroom English teacher, tutor, author, homeschooler, and SWR trainer—on the subject of how children learn to write and read. The program teaches children from the known to the unknown—in short, children "think to spell." Studies have shown that good reading skills are directly related to how well a student can hear and work with the sounds in words. Sadly, 30% of high school graduates have trouble doing basic reading or filling out a job application. Often English is blamed as an illogical, perplexingly difficult language that has more exceptions than one can count, but this is simply not the case! Using Spell to Write and Read we can phonetically explain 99% of the most frequently used words. Click here to read the Author's Speech before the Senate on What is wrong with Literacy today and how we can fix it. Otherwise, continue reading to find out how SWR works.

How it Works

The English Language has 45 sounds which we spell in 70 basic ways. A phonogram is a letter or set of letters used to represent one or more of these sounds. The quickest, most natural way to learn to spell, write and read is to learn these phonograms. Additionally, there are 28 Spelling Rules that work consistently in the English language with few exceptions. Together, the phonograms and spelling rules make up the backbone for spelling instruction. The SWR approach has several distinct advantages over other reading/language arts programs currently available on the market:

Capitalizes on a child's initial enthusiasm to learn
Avoids techniques that clutter or slow down automatic response between symbol and sound
Reinforces the information through multi-sensory instruction
Teaches sounds of multi-letter combinations
Restricts foundational learning to most essential skills for decoding
Saves time and money
Stimulates logical thinking

"A Proven Method " With the SWR Core Kit you can do the following: Follow Step-by-step instructions for the teacher Evaluate and wisely place students according to ability Cover spelling words from kindergarten to freshman level in college Build from the same foundation over four to six years Unify Spelling, Writing, and Reading instruction Teach logical thinking skills And much, much more!

Closeup Photo of the Spelling Rule Card : Front and Back
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Components of the Spell to Write and Read Core Kit!

The Spell to Write and Read Core Kit consists of several important parts which include the following pieces/materials: Spell to Write and Read, the master teacher's manual for the program; the WISE Guide for Spelling Book, which contains 2000 core Words, Instructions on spelling, and Spelling Enrichments to reinforce and enrich; a set of 70 Basic Phonogram Cards, with the phonogram on one side, info and helps on the other; Phonogram Compact Disc (CD) , to help you pronounce the Phonograms correctly;

and 28 Spelling Rules Cards, used to master the fundamental rules of Spelling. (Please Note: these cards come on an 8 and 1/2" x 11" cardstock, you would cut them out and can laminate them if desired.)

These tools for Language Arts success are available for the remarkable price of only $100.00 dollars! Compare this with other programs that use phonics but don't address writing and reading simultaneously, think you'll agree that the Spell to Write and Read Core Kit offers you the best tools at the lowest price. Order your set today! Also remember that this is the Core Kit, so check the TEACHER RESOURCES chart below to find other items Wanda thinks are essential to getting started.

Spell to Write and Read Core Kit
Price: $100.00
Shipping & Handling: $10.00

Sorry, NO international orders. Shipping is only to USA and Military APO's.
If you place an order from a foreign country, your money will be refunded and a $5 processing fee will be charged. Thank you.

TEACHER RESOURCES
Essential	Highly Recommended	Optional
Spell to Write and Read Core Kit Primary Learning Log or Black Log Red & Regular Lead Pencils "Living" books A good dictionary	The Alpha List SWR Seminars McCall-Crabbs Readers New England Primer of 1777 Rummy Roots You Can Do It! SWR DVD	SWR Chart Masters Cursive First Phonogram Bingo Large Clock Face Phonogram Fun Packet Clock Stamp

Still need more information about Spell to Write and Read? Then please take the time to visit these other SWR friendly sites, and if you like what you've seen please come back and order from us. We offer online ordering with credit card!

Lithbth Educational Services: SWR with a Beginning Reader, SWR with an Advanced Student

Cursive First: An Introduction to Cursive Penmanship (use with SWR)

Back Home Industries : Developer of SWR

Literacy Today: What is Wrong and How Can We Fix it? (Senate Hearing Speech)

Homeschool Christian Reviews SWR

Frequently Asked Questions about SWR

NEW!!! The SWR Companion CD for Review and Mastery

The Spell to Write and Read Email Loop

We highly recommend that you join the Spell to Write and Read Email Loop. If you simply need more information about the program or are already using SWR and desire support and encouragement from other people using SWR, then sign up today! This is a private mailing list hosted by Yahoo Groups solely devoted to the topic of Spell to Write and Read. You subscribe to the loop simply by sending an email. When someone has a question, they post it to the loop and everyone in the group receives the email. You can read exchanges between others in the group, ask your own questions, or help others when you have an answer to one of their questions.

You can choose how your emails from the loop are sent to you. Here are the three settings from which you may choose:

• Individual Emails: Receive every post as sent through the loop.

• Digest: One email per day listing all activity on the loop from the previous day.

• No Email/Web Access: No emails sent, instead you access to the abundant information in the group's archives online.

Instructions on how to change your settings and how the loop works will come in an email following your subscription. If you'd like to try it out, click on the link below to send a subscription email. Once you click the link, an email will open up that is addressed to the moderators. Simply request to join and you will receive a reply within 48 hours. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Join the Spell to Write and Read Email Loop

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Sorry, NO international orders for any of the following items. Shipping is only to USA and Military APO's.
If you place an order from a foreign country, your money will be refunded
and a $5 processing fee will be charged. Thank you.

You Can Do It! SWR DVD
by Britta McColl, Endorsed SWR Trainer, ©2006 Morning Star Learning

This fast-paced, intimate look at SWR gives you the confidence to get started teaching Spell to Write and Read to your children. Featuring chapter markers and up-close filming, You Can Do It! will show you

• How to teach SWR with multiple ages
• Beginning Handwriting Skills
• Games to teach the phonograms
• How to do a Phonogram Quiz
• The dictation process using "finger spelling"
• And more!

"In this DVD, Britta opens the door to her home so that you can glimpse the SWR program at work with her preschool and grade school children. As you watch, you will realize that YOU can do it too!"
~ Wanda Sanseri, author of SWR

Price: $19.95

Phonogram Bingo

Looking for a fun way to simply learn and review the 70 phonograms? Then play Phonogram Bingo! Britta McColl, homeschooling mom of 7 and Endorsed SWR Trainer has produced these high quality cards for your learning pleasure. Work from clock-face letters through multi-letter phonograms, then move on to phonograms introduced in Wise Guide spelling lists.

16 Cards, enough cards for a 2-player game, permission given to photocopy cards for additional immediate family members; Instructions included.

Price: $9.95

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Large Clock Face

Another helpful product from Britta McColl, this Large Clock Face (measuring 18x12) for tracing will help your beginning learners as they work on their large motor skills and "write" the letter on the sheet.

Price: $1.00

Back Home Industries Products

Piedmont Education Services is now offering the entire line of products from Back Home Industries, the makers of the Spell to Write and Read program. Many of these products work hand in hand with SWR, several other items are designed for independent use, but ALL of them are excellent educational resources. Best of all, you can order them online from PES today! Jump to the product of your choice by clicking on the corresponding link below. Or you can simply browse through all of these outstanding products by scrolling down.

Alpha List Advent Foretold Black Learning Log Chart Masters McCall-Crabbs Reader
New England Primer Primary Learning Log Remarkable Providence Rummy Roots Suggested Reading List

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Alpha List: A Dictionary for SWR
by Wanda Sanseri

The Alpha List is not your ordinary dictionary. While the standard English dictionary tells us how to pronounce a word, and defines one or more meanings of that word, the Alpha List focuses on the logic of English spelling. Now you can learn why a word is spelled a certain way. For instance, why is there a "U" in biscuit or why do we drop the "E" in argument? Inside this book you will find the answers as you go through 2300 of the highest frequency, and most commonly misspelled words in the English language. Each entry cites the spelling rules from SWR that apply and shows you how to build derivatives from the base word.

Paperback, B&W, Spelling Rules on Inside Cover, 73 pgs.

Price: $14.95

Advent Foretold

This is a December devotional for all ages written by Gary & Wanda Sanseri. Study as a family about the unusual but very specific prophecies about the Messiah. Sing with your children the carols of Christmas which highlight the daily readings.

Paperback, B&W, illustrations, 93 pgs.

Price: $14.95

Black Learning Log
These logs are used by older student to keep track of what they are learning with SWR throughout the year. Highly recommended to have one on hand.

9 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in. sheets, B&W, 100 pgs.

Price: $1.00

SWR Chart Masters

This packet includes 26 reproducible master sheets for the teacher to copy and use for enlargements for classroom flip charts, transparencies, and student worksheets.

26 Charts, Heavy Cardstock

Price: $10.00

Wanda Sanseri's Explanation of the reading comprehension value of the McCall_Crabbs Reader

McCall-Crabbs Hardback Reader w/ Answer Key

These are Standard Test lessons in reading, and in One Hardback edition you receive books A-E. Each level contains 78 three-minute reading exercises with standardized grade-level measurements for each assignment. These lessons are reprinted from 1961 and train students in the important skills used constantly in reading such as:

• Getting the main idea
• Detecting a sequence/pattern
• Identifying the facts
• Making Inferences

The answer key is also included as a separate small booklet.

Hardback, B&W, 455 pgs.

Price: $41.00

The New England Primer of 1777
edited and expanded by Gary and Wanda Sanseri

David Limbaugh recounts the immense value of this book upon the colonies and beyond by saying,

"The Primer was a staple of school instruction for more than one hundred years and was second only to the Bible in popularity with five million copies reported in existence for a population of around four million people. It was commonly said that the primer 'taught millions to read and not one to sin.'"

That being said, this book is the only hardcover edition we know of that is currently in print. The Primer starts with words divided into syllables and moves on to simple sentences like: Fear God. Tell no lies. It then proceeds to a Bible-based rhyming alphabet, simple prayers, and other helpful materials such as a child's catechism.

Hardback, B&W, 325 pgs.

Price: $14.95

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Suggested Reading List

If you're looking for edifying, character-building materials for your student to read, then you'll find Wanda's list of recommended books from K-Adult very helpful. Take advantage of the hours Wanda spent searching for these treasures.

Price: $3.95

Primary Learning Log

This is one of those "Essential" items that Wanda recommends. You will want to have a new book like this each year for each student in grades 1-6 to create his very own Learning Log as you progress through the various lessons. It is helpful if the teacher also will make her own sample log. The Primary Learning Log is 8" by 6 1/2 " with dotted half lines. It has room for over 1000 spelling words. Below the spelling words, students can write out their best sentences. An added benefit is that there are formatted reference pages in the back ready for students to add example words.

Paperback, B&W

Price: $5.00

Remarkable Providences

A classic collection of fascinating stories about God's remarkable providences in the early days of American colonization, as recounted by Increase Mather, a prominent 17th century pastor. This newly enlarged publication is a reproduction of the original 1684 publication. The short clips about sea deliverances are great for composition assignments. Or just read together as a family for your devotional time.

Hardback, B&W, 262 pgs.

Price: $24.95

Rummy Roots Build your English vocabulary skills with Rummy Roots, an exciting card game with four different levels of play for 8 years old and up. The games teach 42 Greek and Latin roots in a fun and challenging style, helping students to improve their dictionary competency and understand how words are formed. Price: $14.95 Quantity:
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Clock Stamp

Teach students how to write the "clock letters" and to tell time using this rubber stamp that is set in a hardwood base. The design is imprinted on top for orientation.

Price: $5.00

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