“So Miss Baker would make a big spelling tree for
a sound. Then we kids would add words to it. When
we found words with the sound in them we would
stick the words on the branches of the tree. We
would stick all of the words with the ‘ai’ spelling on
this branch. We would stick all of the words with the
‘ay’ spelling on that branch .”
“I see. And this helped you get better at spelling?”
Gail nodded.