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As you probably realize, there's more to teaching spelling than just handing students a spelling list and expecting them to memorize it. For most kids, that's not enough. They need to learn important spelling concepts in order to be successful spellers. 

And that's exactly what we do here at All About Spelling! We help you teach your students to become good spellers.

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Spelling Lists

The Ayres Spelling Scale was originally published in 1915 by Leonard Porter Ayres. It contains the 1000 most frequently used words.

The Dolch Word List contains the 220 most frequently used words.

Here are spelling lists of words taught at each grade level:

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