The author explains the five-pronged approach to reading and spelling through classifying words into "simple,""fancy,""insane,""tricky," and "scrunched up" categories, and reports average gains of two grade levels in one semester by junior high school students with severe behavioral problems who learned the approach. Examples of the five word categories are "train" (simple), "precious" (fancy), "wuzz" for "was" (insane), "bare"/"bear" (tricky), and "hafta"/"have to" (scrunched up). Included are charts with columns of simple and fancy spelling, phonetic translations and foreign words, and words from the adult world. (MC)