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Heron Books is a research and development team that publishes cutting-edge K-12 educational materials for the Delphian School in Oregon. Its purpose is to create a high-quality curriculum for the Delphi Program®.
Over time, the curriculum's popularity grew. Today, selections of the Delphi Program curriculum are available for use as supplementary resources for schools, homeschoolers, teachers, tutors, parents, guardians, children, teens, and businesses around the world.
Children should love learning how to spell.
Some find spelling easy,
some need a lot of extra work, and
many fall somewhere in between.
What’s needed is a spelling program that is easy to use, and proven.
That's Heron Spelling!
Help any student become a better speller.
Heron Spelling Starter Package
The Heron Spelling starter package includes the Teacher Manual, Understanding Spelling, Spell It Right and the book and workbooks for the grade level you choose.
Note: The first course, Understanding Spelling is often so effective at putting the basic rules of spelling in place that it has changed students' spelling by whole grade levels.
We highly recommend using the diagnostic test after finishing this course. If you find you need a higher grade level, just reach out to us. We'll help get you the right level.
Here's What You Get With The Starter Package
Heron Spelling Teacher Manual
Ensure your child moves through the Heron Spelling levels easily and masterfully. This manual is an essential component.
Included are instructions for helping a student move quickly through the program, and the diagnostic testing procedure for determining how to tailor the program to the needs of the individual student.
Detailed information on how to go back and repair phonics when students are having difficulty with spelling. See Learning to Spell.
Understanding Spelling
The first course in the Heron Spelling program.
This spelling course is so effective we have found it often changes the students spelling level, allowing them to advance through the program even faster.
Spell It Right!
Did you know that there are some simple things you can do to improve your spelling?
There are!
In fact, spelling is a lot more like other things than you might have realized. To get good at it, you have to know how to avoid mistakes, how to practice, how to be sure you’re getting it right.
Nobody is a perfect soccer player, a perfect artist or a perfect dancer. And nobody is a perfect speller. But just like learning to be a very good soccer player, artist or dancer, you can learn to be a very good speller.
That’s what Spell It Right! is all about.
This book introduces, in a friendly and positive way, how using discipline can help with spelling success.
For use with Heron Spelling as needed. Best done mid-Spelling Level 2 or later.
The Spelling Levels
Level 1 = 4th Grade (age 9)
Level 2 = 5th Grade (age 10)
Level 3 = 6th Grade (age 11)
Level 4 = 7th Grade (age 12)
Level 5 = 8th Grade (age 13)
Level 2 - Book and Workbooks (Grade 5)
The Heron Spelling Level 2 package contains the student book and all four workbooks, typically for 5th grade (age 10) and above.
The student learns about vowel and consonant digraphs, suffixes and prefixes, silent letters, hard and soft g and c, and compound words.
Level 3 - Book and Workbooks (Grade 6)
The Heron Spelling Level 3 package contains the student book and all four workbooks, typically for 6th grade (age 11) and above.
The student learns about plurals, possessives, contractions, compound words, adding suffixes, silent e rules, commonly confused word pairs, vowel sounds in stress and unstressed syllables, and Greek word elements.
Level 4 - Book and Workbooks (Grade 7)
Level 5 - Book and Workbooks (Grade 8)
The Heron Spelling Level 5 package contains the student book and all three workbooks, typically for 8th grade (age 13) and above.
The student learns about suffixes, prefixes, possessives, homonyms, compound words, plurals of words from Greek and Latin, and spellings from French and other languages.
The Learning to Spell Program
In a simple and friendly way, this book fills in phonics basics that may have been missed by students 4th grade and up. Five short learning guides take the student through parts of the book, providing step-by-step activities and opportunities for practice. The first three courses include the use of Heron Spelling Learning to Spell practice cards.