Based on the best-selling book Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing, this new grade level series offers a fresh pairing of lessons and activities for kindergarten through fifth grade. In Making Words Fourth Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce teachers to 50 Making Words lessons that cover key literacy skills included in most fourth-grade curricula. The activities progress through a systematic process that includes ample practice manipulating letters to make words, sorting words, and using prefixes, suffixes, and roots to explore patterns in related or rhyming words–skills all fourth-grade readers need. Each lesson includes 15-20 words including a secret word that can be made with all the letters. After students gain experience working with prefixes, suffixes and roots, all lessons include a transfer step to help them apply what they learn to the spelling of new words.