Learning to Spell: A Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Speller

"Learning to Spell: A Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Speller" by Catherine T. Bryce, Frank J. Sherman, and Arthur W. Kallom is a guide for teachers on how to best instruct elementary students in spelling at the start of the 1900s. It highlights why teaching spelling is important, by looking at how it was taught in the past and how it should be taught now. The book looks at key questions about teaching spelling, like choosing the right words for students to learn based on what they need and how they will use them, and also gives practical ways to help students become good spellers, like using word families and working on commonly misspelled words. The authors also cover how to use dictionaries to help students learn, and they push for a step-by-step approach that includes speaking words out loud, doing written exercises, and going back to review what was learned, with the goal of giving educators what they need to make their students better spellers.