The Teacher's Word List for Reference provides lists of words to use for teaching a specific letter, letter combination, or spelling rule. It is used to teach decoding for reading (the visual approach) and encoding for spelling (the auditory approach). It also includes instructions for teaching concepts. Topics in section one include ways to spell vowel and consonant sounds, syllable division, vowel-consonant words, consonant digraphs and trigraphs, nonsense syllables, phonograms, letter combinations, vowel-consonant-e-words, root words with common suffixes and prefixes, two syllable words, words of more than two syllables, soft c and g, singular and plural, possessives, spelling rules, non-phonetic words and extending concept for use of accent. Section two covers affixes, suffix concept, differences in learning to read and spell, adding suffixes, words that require special concepts and spelling, and the prefix concept.