Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann is considered an unspectacular child--until she surprises everyone by winning her school spelling bee. But just as she begins to shine, her family starts falling apart.

"Jack finds spelling hard. He has to go to a special spelling group. But what if the other kids make fun of him?" --Page 4 of cover.

In My Kid Can't Spell!, spelling expert J. Richard Gentry offers timely and practical solutions to many of the problems parents face. The book is packed with tools, guidelines, and strategies that parents can use immediately: developmental guideposts to track children's literacy, tips for helping children progress through early spelling stages, a test to determine children's spelling level, strategies to help children visualize words, ways to identify...