Members sign in here.
(Not a member? Read the info below and find out what you’re missing.)
Want to know the secret to good spelling?
Good spellers know the look, sounds & rules of spelling.
YOU can develop this skill too.
It’s never to late to improve your spelling. All it takes is 5 minutes a day, step-by-step, slowly building your knowledge and understanding of
You’re in the right place if
I know what’s it’s like to have a bad education, with teachers who don’t care, and I used to be resentful about it! BUT everything can be learned, especially spelling. I’ve done it so can you.
You can take responsibility for your learning now, you can choose yourself, join me on this Spelling Rules, Patterns and Strategies Masterclass course!
I have 18 years of experience teaching spelling, English, writing, and literacy to native English speakers, and ESOL (second language) students.
I’ve taught in colleges, universities and organisations and in the process have learnt the best practices of teaching spelling.
I’ve gathered all this experience and knowledge together to create this course, including information from the best teachers and practitioners in the spelling, English language, dyslexic and literacy fields.
If you could spell really well what would that mean to you?
I get emails from a lot of people – people like you who are desperate to improve their spelling so they can get a promotion, to get on a training course or go back to college or university or to move to the next level in their job/careers.
People like C.W. who needs to improve his spelling because he’s going to take over from his manager when they retire.
People like Dalia who needs to improve her English, reading and spelling. (All the letter patterns have word lists with the pronunciation)
People like Mike who’s a security guard but needs to improve his spelling to get a promotion.
What some people have said about the course:
When I go back to work I’m going to go for a band three role, which is one under a nurse, and it’s all down to you and the support you have given me, thank you so much. If you want to use this letter to show on your site go ahead.Regards, Annette
Now that I understand that there is a logic to spelling it excites me to learn patterns, and the memory tricks are great too. Kind regards, Matt
Thank you so much. I’m 57, a Grandmum and work online. Spelling has always held me back in life but not anymore. With the help of this course I feel differently about spelling I can see a way forward thank you so much. Alison (check below for more testimonials)
“I don’t have enough time to do this course.”
Do you spend hours watching crappy TV? Do you spend time brooding on how bad life is and how others have got the life you want? Do you spend time wanting desperately to spell and write well?
Just imagine how you’ll feel giving yourself the time to study just five minutes a day? You can study a letter pattern five minutes before bed, or do a spelling test at lunch time, or do an exercise when the adverts come on (CHECK the exercises below).
Set yourself a goal – decide to do a Module a week, or do a letter pattern a week and perfect that. There’s a notepad at the end of each page that is yours, is private, and you can log your progress, problems and questions.
Type in choose the word with -ant or -ent
Correct the mistakes. Use your visual memory, knowledge of patterns and rules.
Bonuses: Spelling Strategies video, The Reasons Why English Spelling is so Weird and Wonderful ebook and audio, exclusive in-depth spelling rules videos and my Spelling Rules workbook.
Join me on this course and you’ll get exclusive workbooks, quizzes, games, exercises, podcast spelling tests, the pronunciation of all the patterns, videos.
Here are some of the Modules: Spelling strategies to help you learn and remember spelling Building words with prefixes & suffixes Module 2 – Vowels and their letter patterns & sounds Module 3 – Important word endings (suffix patterns) (-able/-ible, -ant/-ance, -ent / -ence…) Module 4 – Common ‘O’ patterns (oi, ow, -ous…) Module 5 – The ‘a’ patterns (ai, au, ay…) Module 6 – Common endings (-ck, -ic, -cal, -le, -tion, -sion, -cian…) Module 7 – Common ‘s’ patterns Module 8 – Consonants and their letter patterns & sounds, and word contrasts Module 9 – Initial sounds (br, cl, gl…) Module 10 – Common ‘w’ patterns Module 11 – Some common patterns Module 12 – Silent letter patterns…
Spelling rules – exclusive, longer, more in-depth videos and workbook
All this for only a small fee of £57
(Because of the new EU law VAT will be added.)
and the course is yours forever!
Or if you want to buy it for someone else, let me know and I’ll add them to the course. (British cheques accepted – contact me & avoid the VAT)
**Bonus: Spelling Strategies video, The Reasons Why English Spelling is so Weird and Wonderful (full colour ebook) + audio version, exclusive videos and pronunciation podcasts.**
When click on the button you will be taken to Clickbank, a 100% secure site. When you pay, it automatically generates your password and log in details, which will be sent to you (check your junk/spam box!)
1. Did you know there are 44 sounds of English =
20 vowel sounds and 24 consonant sounds?
So there are 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and 20 vowel sounds but over 149 ways to spell these vowel sounds!
And hundreds of letter patterns for the 24 consonant sounds.
2. There are letter patterns that you need to be able to write automatically as ‘chunks’ of spelling: st-, br-, spr-, -nt, sk-, ie, ei, oy, igh, ough, -ful, -au-, -sure…
Notice and practise these to establish your muscle and visual memory.” Johanna Stirling: “Teaching Spelling”
3. Visual memory is one of our most important ways of remembering things. So identifying letter patterns is a great way to help spelling.
“Important point: don’t look for rules look for patterns,” Brendan Cunningham, beating dyslexia.com
4. Spelling is a visuo-motor skill. That means it’s a visual physical skill. We see and feel spelling. We rely on the knowledge of the look of the word and the feel of writing it. But the greater the number of senses we use the more likely we are to remember spellings.
And improve your job prospects, confidence, future.
Everything can be improved by working at it – not dreaming about it.
All this for only a small fee of £57
(Under new EU law VAT will be added)
(and the course is yours forever!)
**Bonus: included is my Spelling Strategies video and exclusive spelling rules videos.**
(If you want to pay by British cheque (avoid VAT) then contact me – info@howtospell.co.uk)
When click on the button you will be taken to the 100% secure Clickbank site. When you pay, your password and log in details will be generated automatically and sent to your email (if not check spam/junk mail).
If you are serious about improving your spelling then you must do something about it – join me on the course now.
You too can develop this ability to recognise letter patterns and their sounds,
Sometimes the pattern makes a different sound; this course will go over the differences.
The purpose is to develop your visual memory for what looks right but using pronunciation can help.
We’ll look at letter patterns like: thr-, str-, spr, scr-, ight, ough, and word families like -tract, -struct and how to remember them. We’ll look at rules with ei and ie, and word contrasts like ou/ow, oi/oy, j/g, ee/ea, e/a…
If you do a few spelling games, quizzes, exercises every day the spelling will get into your long term memory.
This course has workbooks, exclusive games, quizzes, videos, worksheets, information sheets, spelling tests, pronunciation help and much much more.
All this for only a small fee of £57 for unlimited access.
The value of this is well over this amount but I know you need this.
I know you can’t go on with not spelling well anymore.
You need to get on with working on your spelling to improve your job prospects.
Such a small investment in your learning, confidence and future.
Get instant online access now for only £37
Press the PayPal button above and you’ll be taken to a secure site.
Bonus: included in the course is my Spelling Strategies video to help you learn and remember spelling
(If you can’t pay by Paypal email me and we can arrange something – info@howtospell.co.uk)
By practicing everything can be improved. Practice also creates competence, confidence, clarity, certainty and success* *quote by Zig Ziglar
What people have said about the course:
Now that I understand that there is a logic to spelling it excites me to learn patterns and word sums etc and the memory tricks are great too. here’s one of mine! it’s only visible with two eyes.”
Your course work is brilliant I love doing the spelling tests etc and with so much to choose from I feel I have improved in such a short time.The spelling patterns, words within words why did I never see that? I am so grateful to you for your help. Kind Regards, Christine.
I am still on the first unit. I am trying to understand the basics and get them right. I like the video of magic e.
I am excited to finish the remaining units. My best regards,Y
Thanks onge again
Ali
The confidence I have I feel like I am walking on air.
And if you would have told me I would be writing this e mail this time last week I would have said no way .
Best wishes
Thanks for your lessons and your job.”
Thank you Joanne for putting together such an incredible course.
Thank you so much for the wonderful work you are doing.
Warmest regards, Peter