Karen Sandelin

Dance of the Fancy Pants Ants Karen Sandelin

Learn to spell naturally with stories! This engaging phonics story brings spelling to life and is full of Short A sound words, providing authentic context to make sense of phonics. Read about the adventures of Alex and Angie as they ask all the animals where they can find food to save their clan, and enjoy learning to spell the Short A sound at the same timLearn to spell naturally with stories! This engaging phonics story brings spelling to life and is full of Short A sound words, providing authentic context to make sense of phonics. Read about the adventures of Alex and Angie as they ask all the animals where they can find food to save their clan, and enjoy learning to spell the Short A sound at the same time!




The story includes 112 Short A words plus spelling and story based learning activities, word list and spelling groups, tricky words, reading comprehension, homophones and homonyms and a grapheme chart. The Short A sound letters are printed in green making it easy to 'sound out' words.




Clever Speller's unique story based learning approach to spelling helps students aged 4-10 to develop phonemic awareness, learn all the ways to spell sounds in words and improve grammar.




Easily Learn to Spell with Clever Speller Phonics Stories




Stage 1: Develop Phonemic Awareness, the ability to hear sounds in words. Listening to phonics stories full of words with a focus sound makes developing this skill easy and natural.




Stage 2: Learn all the Ways to Spell Sounds in Words with phonics stories full of words showing the different ways to spell a focus sound.




Stage 3: Perfecting Grammar, story based activities make learning to clearly communicate meaningful and connected




Clever Speller Phonics Stories Make Phonics EasyRead the phonics story 'Dance of the Fancy Pants Ants' and listen for words with a Short A soundBreak words into sounds, eg c-a-t. This is often called 'sounding out'Spell the Short A sound words by saying each individual sound of the word and then the whole word, eg c-a-t catLearn all the ways to spell sounds in words. NB: The Short A sound is usually only spelled one way




Helping Students to Enjoy Learning to Spell

For students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties: spelling is confusing and doesn't make sensewords seem to run togetherreading is hard work and not fun




This is because of difficulties with: hearing sounds in wordslearning letter sound associationsblending sounds togetheridentifying beginning, middle and end sounds in wordslearning tricky sight wordsreading fluencyretrieving words from vocabulary




How Clever Speller helps: phonics stories are full of words with a focus soundall the ways to spell the focus sound are in one placestories provide the context for phonics to make senseeasy to follow word family patternsfocus sound words are grouped in lists from simple to complextricky sight words are grouped into a focus soundrhyming stories help with predicting and memoryrecalling spelling is much easier from a story than from a spelling list