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Let’s get started.
( Watch the Intro & Myth Busting videos below)
Spelling won’t improve itself, but it will improve if
you use it, practise (practice – AmE) it, think about it, notice it and love it.
But don’t give up, just work on your spelling a little bit every day or every few days and you’ll soon see an improvement.
1. Start with the Essential Spelling Strategies Module – click here
2. Work through the Modules or choose a pattern you want to work on. Study the pattern, notice its quirks, rules, words.
Module 1 – The Foundations – click here to go to the intro video + workbook
1. Spelling Rules
The Key Vocabulary of Spelling
The Top Ten Spelling Rules – intro
Magic ‘e’ Silent ‘e’
Drop the ‘e’ Rule
1:1:1 Doubling up Rule
Adding -ly to words
Words ending in -k, -ke, -ck, ic
y to ies
Adding -es to words
Words ending in o
-f to -ves
Adding -ful to words (Only use full when full)
Irregular plurals
2. How Words are Built with Prefixes & Suffixes
Building words with prefixes & suffixes – intro
Building words with prefixes
Building words with suffixes – part 1
Building words with suffixes – part 2
Building words with suffixes – part 3 the spelling rules
Building words with prefixes and suffixes together – part 4
Nationalities – suffix endings
The 20 vowel sounds & their letter patterns – video
Letter pattern poem
Letter pattern poem 2
vowel sounds – word-contrasts
long vowel word contrasts
long a & i word contrasts
short “e” and long “a” word contrast
short ‘i’ and ‘e’ sound word contrasts
short ‘e’ and ‘a’ sound word contrasts
Vowel shift words
“er”/ work pronunciation
“or”/walk pronunciation
-ir-
-ell /-ill/-all /-ull
though, through, thorough, thought
ie or ei video lesson + booklet
-ie- words
-ei- words
-ant/-ent introduction & spelling strategies
-ant/-ance
-ent / -ence
Common irregular spellings
Common misspelled words – Oxford Dictionary Corpus
Common misspelled words – university students
Common misspelled words – non-native speakers
Try the Self-assessment tests (also do these tests every week to test what you’ve learnt.)
If you don’t understand a word then look it up in a dictionary. It’s important you know the meaning of a word because it helps you learn it.
I love dictionaries and use Oxford Dictionary Online http://oxforddictionaries.com/
and Macmillan Dictionary.com www.macmillandictionary.com/
By practicing, everything can be improved*
Practice also creates competence, confidence, clarity, certainty and success*
To spell well you need to work at it and keep practising.
Do at least ten minutes of these exercises a day and it’ll improve.
*Quotes thanks to Zig Ziglar
If you have any questions, or any problems contact me at info@howtospell.co.uk
Joanne
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