Practical Spelling Skills

     by Judith Hall & Ron King

Practical Spelling Skills provides practical and effective strategies and exercises to improve the spelling skills of secondary students. This book was written specifically to help secondary students, especially where traditional methods of learning spelling have not been effective. The strategies and exercises in Practical Spelling Skills have been developed by the authors as a result of extensive research into how students learn to spell and read, and why some students in post primary years still have problems. The result is a book which can help students to overcome these problems, either by using the book as a problem arises, or working through the exercises at home or in the classroom.

Practical Spelling Skills is a workbook of spelling exercises which also provides:

Ø      strategies dealing with the most common spelling problems

Ø      a spelling plan

Ø      a sequence of exercises for practice and consolidation

Ø      some useful word lists, concentration on vowel sounds

 Judith Hall is a former special education teacher and literacy consultant with the Department of School Education.

Ron King was foundation Professor of Education at Wollongong University and author of over 70 publications in education and psychology.

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Practical Spelling Skills Contents

Understanding vowels

The spelling plan

Fifteen rules and a spelling plan

Activities

1-12    Exploring the short vowels

13-41  Common long vowel letter combinations and patterns

42-45 When 'y' performs as a vowel

46-48 The 'g ... c' and 'ti ... ci ... si ... ssi' rules

49-50  Variations of the 'V' sound

51-53  'Trick' vowel sounds

54-59 Complex vowel sounds with consistent letter patterns

Words, word lists and a reading plan :

Answers to activities