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English spelling
What is spelling?
What is word study?
How is word study taught?
What is spelling?
Spelling is the forming of words from letters according to accepted usage; a sequence of letters composing a word; a statement of rules or conventions on how words are to be written.

Spelling is the study of:

Phonics as related to the grouping of words for spelling such as: an, man, can
Syllabication learn to divide words and spell by syllabication such as: mul-ti-pli-ca-tion; dic-ta-tion; re-la-tion
Prefixes, what they mean and how to use them
Suffixes, what they mean and how to use them
Rules for plurals and possessive and for adding suffixes such as: when the y is preceded by a consonant, change the y to i and add es
Learning to pronounce words correctly to spell correctly
Learning the basic sight words
Spelling and Vocabulary mix when learning:

Antonyms opposite meaning such as hot and cold
Synonyms similar meaning such as jog and trot
Homonyms alike in sound or spelling but not meaning such as altar and alter
English Phonetic Spelling
Adding -er/-est
quick, quicker, quickest, happy, happier, happiest, hot, hotter, hottest...

Adding -ing/-ed
work, working, worked, stop, stopping, stopped...

Adding -ly
loud, loudly, happy, happily, terrible, terribly...

Adding -s
dog, dogs, church, churches, wife, wives...

-ible or -able
accessible, visible, dependable, networkable...

-ie- or -ei-
friend, fiend, feint, freight...

Spelling Practice
Prefixes un- and dis-

Prefixes in-, il-, ir-, im-

Quiz on prefixes in-, il-, im- and ir-

Wordle revision list: in-, il-, im- and ir-

Prefixes - some practice

Words beginning con- and ex-
Suffixes

Why suffixes are important in spelling

Adding a suffix to words ending in silent e

Adding a suffix to words ending -ce and -ge

To double or not to double?

Worksheet - double consonants

Suffixes and stressed syllables

Another activity on double consonants

Adding a suffix to words ending in y

Worksheet - adding suffixes to words ending y

Revision test on suffixes

Adding a suffix to words ending in l
Word endings

Words ending -ly and -ect

Words ending -ick and -ic

More words ending -ic

Words ending -er, -or and -ar

Quiz on words ending -er, -or and -ar

Words ending -ation

Words ending -ate >>>>> -ation

Words ending -able, -ible

Words ending -ical, -icle, -acle

Words ending -gry
Vowels

Split digraphs: how vowels are affected by the "magic e"

More magic e words

How to spell those difficult vowel sounds

Long vowel sounds a

Long vowel sounds e

Long vowel sounds i

Long vowel sounds o
Plurals

Plural words

Plurals of words ending in 'y'

Plurals of words ending in x, sh, s, ss, and ch
Spelling Commonly Misspelled Words
MISSPELLING CORRECT SPELLING
acheive achieve
accidently accidentally
adrenalin adrenaline
adress address
alot a lot
athiest atheist
beggining beginning
bereu bureau
beleive believe
beleif belief
bisness business
breath breathe (verb)
catagory category
committment commitment
concieve conceive
copywrite copyright (as in intellectual ownership)
decaffinated decaffeinated
decathalon decathlon
definately definitely
desireable desirable
diarrea diarrhoea (British English) or diarrhea (American English)
diety deity
dissppoint disappoint
dispell dispel
ecstacy ecstasy
embarass embarrass
enviroment environment
expresso espresso
extremly extremely
facist fascist
Febuary February
flourescent fluorescent
fourty forty
freind friend
guage gauge
goverment government
grammer grammar
grievious grievous
harrass harass
hemorage hemorrhage
heros heroes
hieght, heigth height
hygeine hygiene
hym hymn
independance independence
inate innate
innoculate inoculate
it's its (possessive)
knowlege knowledge
lazer laser
leprecan leprechaun
libary library
lightening lightning
maintainance maintenance
managable manageable
millenium millennium
mischievious mischievous
mispell misspell
mit mitt
monestary monastery
monkies monkeys
morgage mortgage
mountian mountain
neccessary necessary
neice niece
nickle nickel
nineth ninth
ninty ninety
noone no one or no-one
noticable noticeable
nuptuals nuptials
occured occurred
occurence occurrence
occurrance occurrence
oppurtunity opportunity
paralell parallel
pasttime pastime
pavillion pavilion
peice piece
percieve perceive
perserverance perseverance
persue pursue
pinocio pinocchio
posession possession
pertend pretend
potatoe potato
preceeding preceding
pronounciation pronunciation
priviledge privilege
recieve receive
reccomend recommend
rediculous ridiculous (as in ridicule)
reguardless regardless
remeber remember
restrant restaurant
roomate roommate or room-mate
rythm rhythm
sacreligious sacrilegious
seige siege
sentance sentence
seperate separate
sieze seize
similiar similar
sincerly sincerely
sooveneer souvenir
speach speech
stationary stationery (as in office supplies)
stragedy strategy
suggestable suggestible
supercede supersede
supposively supposedly
suprise surprise
thier their
throughly thoroughly
tommorrow tomorrow
tounge tongue
triathalon triathlon
ukelele ukulele
vaccuum vacuum
vegeterian vegetarian
villian villain
Wendesday Wednesday
wierd weird (exception: Wierd programming language)
writting writing
your you're (you are)