Spelling Exercises
Your spelling will improve if you work at it, study it, think about it and do these exercises.
Learning anything doesn’t just happen. We aren’t born knowing things or born talented or a genius — we learn. And spelling can be learned.
“By practicing/practising(BrE), everything can be improved. Practice also creates competence, confidence, clarity, certainty and success.” Zig Ziglar
Improve your spelling confidence now.
Click on one of the spelling exercise sections.
From beginner to advanced - you choose.
Practice Makes Progress
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Practice Makes Progress 〰️
Back to Basics Exercises
Intermediate/advanced exercises
Spelling Rules
Plurals
Silent letters
Letter Patterns
Homophones & confusing words
Prefixes
Suffixes
Numbers
Ordinal Numbers: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th...
Days, Months, Seasons
Proofreading and error correction
Language of Spelling
Punctuation in Spelling
Spelling Tests
QTS Spelling Tests and Strategies
Word searches help develop your visual memory - click, drag, highlight on the letters to make the word. It'll tell you if you are correct or not. Words are vertical, horizontal, diagonal, forwards, backwards......... Enjoy! Beat the clock! Can you do it in 10 minutes? Impossible!!! Lots of word searches in the Letter Pattern section below.
Spelling Rules Course app
Use your phone to learn spelling and really improve it every day with
→ daily misspelled word exercises
→ short videos on the rules
→ quick video spelling tests
→ quick revision reads
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The key phonetic syllable was PAR. Of course I never spoke it that way. Later I forgot this phonemic device. With my phonetic dyslexic daughter, we would invent stories using the spelling words we traveled to jungles there were heroes, and her spelling words along with color crayons and drawing paper. She ended up getting A's in spelling. The latter method I shall never forget. It belongs in a Separate place in my heart, Juan
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