Tricks of The Trade - by Gayle Graham

Much like detective work, Gayle Graham's approach to learning to spell is fun and enlightening to your students specific spelling "opportunities". Instead of graded "lists", children apply spelling rules to words they have specific problems with and keep them categorized in the workbook.

Theoretically, after a while you should see a particular pattern. There could be specific phonograms that your student struggles with and therefore you can target your instruction. If you don’t care for the “list on Monday, test on Friday” approach, you’ll like this!