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Top TenSpelling Tips
fromHow to Spell
by Joanne Rudling from
www.howtospell.co.uk
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1.Readings very important but it wont improve
your spelling. Different skills are involved.
Spelling is much more difficult than reading.Spelling is a letter-by-letter activity.
Spelling uses a set of active, productive, conscious
processes that are not required for reading. (David
Crystal: The English Language)
2.Use memory tricks to help you
remember difficult spellings.
These could be seeing words-
within-words; this is good forsome homophones which are words
with the same sound but different
spelling & meaning*.peace or piece?a piece ofpie.
Can you see the word within
the word?
Here or hear?You hear with your ear and you learn.
*add an address.
Good spellers use memory tricks & spelling strategies
*Ill be sending you information about homophones so watch out for the lesson in
your inbox.
Click here and check out my video
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3.To learn spelling you have to write and keep
practicing the words that are important for
you.* Notice patterns, learn rules, think
about spelling, work at it.
*Dont learn words you dont need.
*To really improve your spelling use the Look Say Cover Write Checkspelling strategy:
This method works if you do a little bit every day.
On a piece of paper write the word you want to learn (make sure its
correct!)
1) Look at the word.
2) Say the word.
3) Cover the word.
4) Write the word.
5) Check it very carefully(letter by letter) and correct the mistakes.
6) Do it again
6) Use this method for a few minutes every day.
If youd like to see this method in action then click here and watch
my video on this method.
I have more spelling videos on my Howtospelluk YouTube channel -
click here.
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4. Dont rely on the sound of the word for its spelling.
Pronunciation and spelling are sometimes totallydifferent, e.g. we spell - Wednesday
we say - wens day
Ill send you more on spelling vs pronunciation.
Think about spelling in as many ways as you can look,
sound, feel.
Use different spelling strategies to learn the words you
want to learn: memory tricks, syllable breakdown, look,
say, cover, write, check, word building using prefixes, root
words and suffixes and knowing why a words spelled the
way it is. These all help to build your knowledge,
confidence and spelling.
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5. Spelling long words is always a huge problem. One
strategy is breaking the word down into syllables.
Syllables are little chunks of words usually with a vowel in
them.
Say these slowly when spelling the word
Wed/nes/day qua / li / fi / ca / tion i/den/ti/fy
6. Building words with prefixes and suffixes. Understanding that
words can be built up by adding bits to root words can improveyour confidence and spelling.
Prefix Root Suffix
dis respect ful
mis understand ing
un manage able
Ill be sending you more info on suffixes and prefixes over the weeks - watch out
for the lessons.
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7. 75% of English spelling is regular.
You may feel that English spelling is
illogical. Its true that there are
irregular spellings, this is because it
includes words from many languages.
8. One way to start to improve spelling is to discover
the logic in the spelling system by learning the
spelling rules.
There are patterns, and rules and reasons why some
words are spelled as they are learn them.
Ill send you various spelling rules over the weeks.
Remember you must click on the spelling test
podcast links and do the tests to really improve your
spelling.
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9. 60% of English words have silent letters in them, which cancause all sorts of problems spelling the word or looking forthe word in a dictionary.
But if you know the history of why there are silent letters itllimprove your spelling. For example: knock, knee, gnaw, gnatare all Viking (Old Norse) words, the k and g werepronounced but not now.
Theres a great lesson Ill be sending you with a video sowatch out for it.
10. Take an interest in words. Knowing the
origins and history of words, and why they
are spelled the way they are, is a great way
to understand and learn them. It can evenhelp dyslexic students.
Click here to check out my ebook: The Reasons
Why English Spelling is so Weird and Wonderful.
Lots of words to do with the nose begin with the letter pattern
sn - snout, sniff, snub, snot, snore, snort, snozzle, snooty.
Plumber has a silent b in there because it comes from the Latin
word plumbum meaning lead piping used by plumbers.
NO English words end in v or u. Theres always an e on theend: give; have; love; eve; twelve; glue; rescue; blue; true.
NO English words end in j. The sound is made by -dge or -ge: bridge;
badge; hedge; marriage; bandage; age.
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A couple more spelling and writing tips
*Write/type in lowercase so you can see and feel the shape ofthe word. BLOCK CAPITALS are hard to read (use BLOCK CAPSon forms only).
*If you are using a pen, make sure it feels good to write with,is the ink flowing, is the weight right, is it too heavy?
I hope youve learned something useful.
I cant wait to send you more spelling info
straight to your inbox.
Learn to love spelling like I did and youll be so much
more confident in your writing and spelling.
Thanks for reading this, Joanne
contact me on [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]