<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>It's Friday night and Tyson Pirate is looking forward to a giant apple pie, but something is happening outside. Find out more and 'Be Spellbound' with this beautifully illustrated phonics picture book. Includes 92 spelling words to show how the Long I Sound can be spelled in 11 different ways. Plus activities, reading comprehension and chart.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Learn to spell naturally with stories! This engaging phonics story brings spelling to life and is full of Long I sound words, providing authentic context to make sense of phonics. Read about how Tyson Pirate helps to save a kite, and enjoy learning to spell 11 ways to spell the Long I sound at the same time! </p><p><br></p><p>The story includes 92 Long I words plus spelling and story based learning activities, word list and spelling groups, tricky words, reading comprehension, homophones, homonyms and homographs and a grapheme chart. The Long I sound letters are printed in green making it easy to 'sound out' words. </p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Easily Learn to Spell with Clever Speller Phonics Stories</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Stage 3: Perfecting Grammar, story based activities make learning to clearly communicate meaningful and connected</p><p><br></p><p>Clever Speller Phonics Stories Make Phonics Easy</p><ul><li>Read the phonics story 'Diamonds in the Sky' and listen for words with a Long I sound</li><li>Break words into sounds, eg p-ie. This is often called 'sounding out'</li><li>Spell the Long I sound words by saying each individual sound of the word and then the whole word, eg p-ie, pie</li><li>Learn all the ways to spell the Long I sound in words </li></ul><p><br></p><p>Helping Students to Enjoy Learning to Spell</p><p>For students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties: </p><ul><li>spelling is confusing and doesn't make sense</li><li>words seem to run together</li><li>reading is hard work and not fun</li></ul><p><br></p><p>This is because of difficulties with: </p><ul><li>hearing sounds in words</li><li>learning letter sound associations</li><li>blending sounds together</li><li>identifying beginning, middle and end sounds in words</li><li>learning tricky sight words</li><li>reading fluency</li><li>retrieving words from vocabulary</li></ul><p><br></p><p>How Clever Speller helps: </p><ul><li>phonics stories are full of words with a focus sound</li><li>all the ways to spell the focus sound are in one place</li><li>stories provide the context for phonics to make sense</li><li>easy to follow word family patterns</li><li>focus sound words are grouped in lists from simple to complex</li><li>tricky sight words are grouped into a focus sound</li><li>rhyming stories help with predicting and memory</li><li>recalling spelling is much easier from a story than from a spelling list</li></ul><p><br></p><p> </p><p><br></p>