Book excerpt: Logic of English Essentials is a unique program provides older students (7 to adult) a direct path to learning the 104 tools that unlock English words. This streamlined, open-and-teach manual provides everything needed to learn the rules and phonograms alongside your students. Sample scripting, teacher tips, detailed spelling charts, sample words, and abundant optional activities empower teachers to present this vital information with little or no prep. Meaningful practice activities integrate grammar, usage, and punctation and increase the reading, spelling, and writing levels of students simultaneously. The Essentials Curriculum is ideal for students of a wide range of abilities. From struggling readers to students gifted with language, students will learn the linguistic structure of English which opens up millions of English words. The included spelling lists include high frequency words which students analyze for phonograms and spelling rules thereby learning the linguistic structure of English that applies to all words. Lessons also include practice reading and spelling more than 1600 additional words!