My colleague, Dr. Bruce Rosow, and I have revised, updated, and republished our word study program for intermediate students. Teachers and kids will love this new and improved version of the original. It’s fun because it challenges kids to think about words, learn where they came from, and understand how they’re put together. We make sense of English spelling by exploring the “layer cake” of language our writing system represents – its sounds, sound-symbol correspondences, letter patterns, syllable patterns, principles for adding suffixes, morpheme structures, and history.