Spellography™: A research-based spelling program
Guide students as they explore why words are spelled the way they are through explicit, systematic, cumulative, and enjoyable lessons that support higher order reading and writing skills.
A smarter spelling program
Enhance your core reading program and help all students make sense of English spelling with lessons including phonology, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, morphology, syntax, idioms, figures of speech, and more.
Expertly designed, classroom-tested
Created by Dr. Louisa Moats and Dr. Bruce Rosow, Spellography™ is a research-aligned, trusted complement to the One95 Literacy Ecosystem™.
Go beyond memorization
Spellography trades in rote memorization and quizzes for engaging lessons that emphasize the history, sound, and meaning of words to power deeper learning and recall.
Deliver fun, structured lessons
With six, two-week lessons per book, each unit asks your students to follow diverse characters through concepts enlivened by gentle humor before taking a comprehensive survey to gauge learnings.
Get the guidance you need
Use our teacher’s guide to review student exercises and discover tips on how to present instructional activities.
Spellography is not a traditional spelling program. There are no lists to memorize and no Friday tests whose words are soon forgotten. Instead, this program explores why words are spelled the way they are, emphasizing understanding over rote memorization.
Louisa Moats, EdD
Introducing Spellography: Book C
In Book C of the Spellography series, students advance their skills with:
- Properties of both predictable and unique vowel teams
- Liquid /l/ in final position, alternate spellings for final /l/, and the influence of /l/
- Suffixes -ible and –able
- The four different ways to spell /ā//r/ (air)
- Vowel spellings for long vowels, including the two long u’s: /ū/ (moon) and /y//ū/
Experience the Spellography program
Preview Spellography books and start seeing foundational improvement today.
Explore our resources
Explore free, evidence-based diagnostic surveys that complement your Spellography books, empowering you to meet students where they are in making sense of English spelling.
Supported by research
Spellography’s content and instructional design reflect decades of research on learning to read and spell, integrating practice with spelling, word analysis, word reading fluency, and grammar and usage.
Interested in learning more about Spellography?
In this four-part webinar series taught by Dr. Louisa Moats and Dr. Bruce Rosow, we broke down the layers of language to help educators see how parts work together and build upon each other. A classroom-tested program, Spellography explicitly teaches spelling concepts that help students understand English spelling and improve reading and writing.
Expand your structured literacy toolkit
Engaging, cohesive, and intuitively designed for you and your students, the One95 Literacy Ecosystem helps you build a modular literacy toolkit to effectively teach tomorrow’s readers.