Name 6.2
© 2013 Core Knowledge FoundationUnit 3^31Miss Baker
I was sitting with spelling champ Gail Day.
into a good speller?” I asked her, “How did this Miss Baker make you
English spelling. She made spelling trees.”“Well,” said Gail, “Miss Baker had a cool way of explaining
“Spelling trees?”
“Yes,” said Gail. “Here, I’ll make one for you.”
Gail got a sheet of paper and made a tree.
stands for a sound, like the sound /ae/ as in She pointed at the trunk of the tree and explained, “The trunk cake. The branches
stand for the spellings for that sound. There’s one branch for words that have the ‘a_e’ spelling like flame and stake. There’s
one branch for words that have the ‘ay’ spelling like There’s one branch for words that have the ‘ai’ spelling like play and painstay.
and train. And so on. Get it?”