Apples 2: Daily Phonics Drills for Secondary Students

An Apple a day will help keep your spelling woes at bay!  What’s the difference between Apples and Apples 2?  Apples 2 Daily Spelling Drills for Secondary Students follows the same format as the original Apples.  Apples 2 provides practice to aid memorization of words that do not follow a rule (especially long-vowel words).  It also incorporates innovative, real-life exercises such as check writing (for the spelling of numbers) and addressing envelopes (for common abbreviations and punctuation in addresses).  Apples 2 reinforces some of the lessons from Apples, while also introducing the student to a number of new phonics rules.  In many spelling situations, a hard and fast rule doesn’t exist, and simple repetition and memorization is necessary.  Apples 2 exposes the student to these situations through drill work in the form of puzzles, Bible verses, and fill-in-the-blank exercises. Everything you need is included – even a convenien answer key and a helps section.

These daily drills will help your student memorize the spellings of common words in a low-stress, non-threatening, manner.  Apples 2 is easy to use (no more than 10 minutes a day), and comes complete with an answer key and a list of spelling exceptions and tips in the back of the book.  There are no extensive lists or tests to further demoralize the poor speller - just application of spelling rules in an encouraging Scripture-sentence-or-puzzle.  Consumable.