Do you have difficulties spelling the words that you read? Then this book is for you!

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What Students Will Learn

• 150 phonics and an intense practice of each phonic
• Why thirteen of the English letters don’t always have the same sound
• How to memorize the spelling of words containing the same letter with many sounds (phonics)
• Understand why words are spelled the way that they are
• A class-tested, effective approach to spelling; most master spelling within a few months
• That no forced memorization or flash cards are needed
• That spelling is acquired naturally through students reading aloud, logic, and repetition
• All words are grouped together, divided into syllables, each phonic to be learned is bolded, and each silent letter is italicized
• Most students learn using this book with or without a teacher. It accommodates diverse needs in one classroom. Students from multilevel and multicultural backgrounds can learn to spell using this text
• This book is easy to read, the language is in plain, spoken English, and it is in large print

Who should use this book?
According to reliable statistics, half of the adults in the U.S. cannot spell correctly. Every question that can be asked about spelling can now be answered. Students are able to learn 150 phonics through the practice of grouping all of the words that share the same phonic.  Correct spelling and reading fluency are now possible with these revolutionary new approaches: Understanding Before Memorization Approach (UBMA) and the students Reading Aloud Approach (RAA)

Featuring a new approach to spelling…
UBMA was developed and successfully class-tested by the author, Camilia Sadik. After working with hundreds of adult and older children, Camilia Sadik created an approach that especially meets learners’ needs. Unlike most children, adults and some children rarely memorize the spelling of words without first understanding why words are spelled the way that they are. Using UBMA, learners can learn to correctly spell words using logic and repetition (logic+ repetition=memory)

Unique organizational structure aids in building spelling skills…
This book explains and justifies why words are spelled the way that they are. Exercises are presented by listing groups of all the words with a similar spelling pattern. It also uses these words in simple sentences and reinforces them using these same words in stories. As learners read aloud, they begin to naturally memorize the spelling of these words without forced memorization. Each vowel is isolated in one chapter. For instance, 100-pages chapter is on the vowel "a" alone. All of the four sounds and 11 spelling patterns (phonics) of the vowel "a" are isolated from the other vowels and are presented in this logical order: 1) The short "a" sound, as in man. 2) The long "a" sound spelled in four ways (4 phonics):{ay (day), ai (main), a-e (cake), stressed-opened a (table)}. 3) The "a" which sounds almost like an "o" is spelled in five ways (5 phonics): {au (haul), aw (drawer), all (fall), al (always), war (reward)}. 4) The weak sound of "a" is called a schwa, as in liar, fundamental, attendance, altar, secretary

Brief Descriptions of what to expect in each chapter in the book
Chapter One: This chapter is a preview of the thirteen unstable letters which have more than one sound and more than one spelling pattern (phonics). The focus of Chapter One is on the six unstable consonants c, g, h, q, s, and x. At the end of Chapter One, there is a preview of the five short vowels in short words and in long words. Seeing such changes of sounds and spelling patterns ahead of time, learners can gain an early awareness of how half of the English letters can be relearned in a new way

Chapter Two: This entire 100-pages chapter is devoted to learning the vowel A including its four sounds, its eleven spelling patterns (phonics), and its use in nearly all of the useful words which fall under each spelling pattern. The same group of words are then used in simple sentences that rhyme and then in stories. This idea of isolating a whole vowel in one lengthy chapter is a new learning approach. Doing so allows the learners to see the logic behind what it is they are memorizing. Because Chapter One covers the first vowel to be learned, it involves learning more than the vowel A; it involves learning the vowel A, the new concepts, and the rules of what makes a vowel sound short or long or a schwa or any other sounds

Chapter Three: This entire chapter is devoted to learning the vowel E and all of its changes. Learning the vowel E becomes much easier than learning the vowel A because most of the logic has already been learned in Chapter Two. Many of the rules of the vowels A and E are similar

Chapter Four: This chapter explains the meanings of nearly all of the spelling concepts. Some of the concepts explained are vowels, consonants, syllables, open syllables, closed syllables, stressed syllables, unstressed syllables, schwas, one-syllable words, two-syllable words, multi-syllable words, compound words, semivowels, prefixes, suffixes, blends, nouns, verbs, and much more. Chapter Four also contains the nine ways to divide words into syllables.  At the end of this chapter, there is a long list of all the prefixes, their meanings, and a total of 1303 words containing the prefixes