This book goes into detail to show what teachers can do month-by-month in the Working With Words block for upper grades. Even if you do not do the Four Blocks approach in your classroom, you can still use many of these games, strategies, and lists to teach phonics to students. While older students are already stronger at decoding what they are reading, they can still benefit with practice of forming words and using those patterns to spell larger words. The "Nifty Thrifty Fifty" is in this book- it's a list of 50 words that can help to spell over 800 other words. Great ideas!