Spelling You See - Level C
Watch spelling skills soar! This multi-sensory program helps your child become a confident, successful speller—naturally and at his own pace.
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2026 Second-Grade Curriculum Kit
Spelling You See - Level C
Many children can read a word correctly, yet still struggle to spell it from memory. Spelling You See Level C: Wild Tales helps bridge that gap by strengthening visual memory through short daily lessons built around fascinating nonfiction passages about animals.
Designed for students who already know basic phonics patterns and can spell many common words, Wild Tales expands spelling skills through repeated exposure to words in meaningful context. Rather than memorizing weekly lists, students learn to recognize and remember spelling patterns as they read, copy, chunk, and write real words from engaging passages.
Throughout the course, students encounter increasingly complex spelling concepts, including vowel and consonant chunks, silent letters, high-frequency words, and r-controlled vowels. The program's chunking activities help students identify common letter patterns, making unfamiliar words easier to recognize and spell.
Short daily lessons provide regular opportunities to strengthen spelling, handwriting, reading fluency, and visual processing skills. Students also complete dictation activities and participate in No Rule Day assignments that encourage creativity through writing and illustration.
The Instructor's Handbook provides lesson guidance, dictation material, answer keys, and teaching support, making implementation straightforward for parents. Lessons require minimal preparation and fit easily into a homeschool routine.
For families seeking a gentle, research-based spelling program, Spelling You See Level C offers a practical approach that helps students build confidence, develop stronger visual memory, and master increasingly complex spelling patterns through meaningful reading and writing experiences.
How to Use Spelling You See Level C: Wild Tales
- Set aside just 10 minutes a day, five days a week. Students work through one animal-themed nonfiction passage each week, building spelling, reading fluency, handwriting, and visual processing skills through short, consistent lessons.
- On Days 1–3, read the weekly passage together, identify and mark letter patterns using Spelling You See's chunking method, and have your child copy the passage for up to 10 minutes while marking the targeted chunks. These activities help strengthen visual memory and pattern recognition while reinforcing spelling concepts in context.
- Day 4 introduces a No Rules Day activity. Students continue working with the weekly passage and chunking patterns while completing a creative writing or illustration activity designed to build confidence and encourage self-expression.
- On Day 5, students complete a 10-minute dictation exercise using words and patterns they have practiced throughout the week. Dictation provides an opportunity to apply newly learned spelling patterns in a meaningful way.
- When 10 minutes are up, stop—even if the page isn't finished. The effectiveness of Spelling You See comes from short, consistent practice over time, not from completing every activity perfectly.
- The Instructor's Handbook provides weekly lesson directions, dictation guidance, answer keys, and teaching support, making preparation minimal for parents.
Spelling You See works best when lessons remain brief, positive, and consistent. Through repeated exposure to engaging nonfiction passages, spelling patterns, copywork, chunking, creative expression, and dictation, your child gradually develops the visual memory and pattern recognition skills that lead to confident spelling.
Table of Contents
Lesson 1-2: Vowel Chunks
Lesson 3-4: Consonant Chunks
Lesson 5: Bossy r Chunks
Lesson 6: Tricky y Guy
Lesson 7: Endings
Lesson 8: Silent Letters
Lesson 9: Vowel and Consonant Chunks, Silent Letters
Lesson 10-18: Various Combinations
Lessons 19: Vowel Chunks
Lesson 20: Consonant Chunks
Lesson 21: Vowel and Consonant Chunks
Lesson 22: Bossy r Chunks
Lessons 23–30: Various Combinations
Lessons 31–36: All Letter Patterns
Please note: This updated edition is not compatible with older versions of Spelling You See.
Publisher's Information
Publisher: Demme Learning
Age Recommendation: 7
Grade Recommendation: 2nd
Faith-Based: No
Copyright 2024
Printed in: USA
Consumable:
- Student Workbooks: Yes
- Instructor's Handbook: No
- Instructor's Handbook: 73
- Student Workbook: Part 1: 219
- Student Workbook: Part 2: 219
ISBN:
- Instructor's Handbook: 978-1-60826-572-5
- Student Workbook: Part 1: 978-1-60826-574-9
- Student Workbook: Part 2: 978-1-60826-575-6
Format: Softcover, printed in color
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- September 23, 2026
ScotFlower
Spelling can be tedious with its lists and mass memorization... And frankly end up being ineffective for long term learning and retention. SpellingYouSee instead focuses and what you write is what you motor memorize. Because of this, we prefer SpellingYouSee hands down. My son finds the color coding the words tedious but it does help him learn to spell. My son is high functioning autistic and this combined with All About Reading is really working.
- August 31, 2026
Catherine
Works well. Each lesson gives great information and is easy to use.
- June 3, 2026
Karo
If spelling tests make you or your student panic, this is the curriculum for you. Each day is broken into steps and they encourage you to not spend more than 10 minutes on spelling each day. The topics make learning the spelling words fun. Doing the chunking is colorful and engaging.
- April 2, 2026
Karolyn B.
After multiple years of using Spelling You See we continue to enjoy the 10 minute format, the variety of daily writing portions, and the learning about life that can happen while focusing on chunking. This year is all about animals which was a hit.
- February 19, 2026
Spelling You See
Steph H.
After teaching primary grades and using the typical spelling lists, this method of spelling has been a breath of fresh air (and, comparatively, a more positive result). Rather than just memorizing a list of selected words, my second grader is practicing words in context, finding "chunks" to help remember how to spell particular words, and mastering spelling in a much more organic way. Really appreciate this curriculum!
- November 6, 2025
It clicks
Elle
This seems to be a great spelling curriculum for my youngest. No question. He enjoys chunking his vowels and consonants. It just clicks for him.
- July 4, 2025
Better than memorization
Erin
We enjoyed the repetition and learning about the different animals the stories were about. Not only did her writing improve while her spelling did too, but the color chunking helped to solidify a lot of tricky spellings.
- June 11, 2025
Seems to be working
ScotFlower
My son seems to be learning how to spell using this curriculum. Each week he does very good on the dictation only missing 1-2 things. The following week, he does not make those same mistakes. So he is learning. But, the curriculum is not teaching enough new words per week so most of what my son is writing during the week is spelt incorrectly since his spelling curriculum has not yet covered it and he resents my gently correcting it. Now, my son is not going to tolerate spelling lists or a full on spelling curriculum with all those words, so this is the best option so far. However, I just wish it was a few more new words per week. My son is in 3rd grade doing level C, but I could see most other kids doing level C in 2nd grade. To build his vocabulary we added in Word a Day by Evan Moore so even if this spelling curriculum is going slow in learning words, at least his vocabulary will be growing appropriately.
- May 21, 2025
Makes spelling fun
Sadie
Who wouldn’t like to spell when you’re also learning about fun animals! Keeps them learning something exciting each week, and teaches them to spell with excellence.
- June 21, 2024
Engaging
Jamie K.
I love how engaging the curriculum is! This makes it so fun.
