The complete Spellzone course contains these Units:
| Unit 1 (Guide to the course) and Unit 2 ( Tips on how
to learn spellings) are free to all users. The remaining
detailed teaching units are available through subscription. |
1. Introduction and Guide to Spellzone.
2. Tips on how to learn spellings
3. The basics: vowels, consonants,
syllables, suffixes, prefixes
4. Spelling consonant sounds
e.g. c,
k or
ck?
f or ff?
v
or ve?
qu
5. Consonant digraphs: wh,
sh, ch, th, ph
4-5H. A 'Beat
the spellchecker!' test for words from Units 4 and 5.
6. Short vowels e.g.
e or
ea? o
or
u?
6H. A 'Beat
the spellchecker!' test for Unit 6 words.
7. Long vowels e.g ee,
ea or
y? oa,
o-e, or
ow? u-e,
ue, or
ew?
7H. A 'Beat
the spellchecker!' test for Unit 7 words.
8. Syllables: how to
divide words
9. Suffixes: why
we need to double letters, change them, or drop 'e'
10. Spelling choices for
/ar/ sound: ar,
a
11. Spelling choices for /er/
sound: er, ir, ur, ear + wor
12. Spelling choices for
/air/ sound: air, are,
ear
10-12H. A
'Beat the spellchecker!' test for words from Units 10, 11,
12
13. Spelling choices for /oo/
sound: oo, ou
13H. A 'Beat
the spellchecker!' test for Unit 13 words
14. Spelling choices for /or/
sound: or, ore, au, aw + war
14H. A 'Beat the
spellchecker!' test for Unit 14 words
15. Spelling choices for /ou/
sound: ou, ow
16. Spelling choices for /oi/
sound: oi, oy
17. ough
and augh words
15-17H. A 'Beat the spellchecker!' test for words from Units
15 and 17
18. Irregular common words -
common errors e.g. would, who, does
19. Soft g: ge,
gi, gy
20. Soft c: ce,
ci, cy
20H. A 'Beat the spellchecker!' test for words from Unit
20
21. The 'i'
before
'e' rule - does it
work?
21H. A ‘Beat the spellchecker!’
test for words from Unit 21
22. Words with silent letters
e.g. wrap,
comb,
sign,
knight
22H. A 'Beat the spellchecker!' test for words from Unit
22
23. Prefixes: when
letters need changing
24. The weak 'schwa'
sound: stress in words
25. Word endings:
-er, -ar, -or, -our ,
re, a and -ery, -ary
25-26H. A
'Beat the spellchecker!' test for words from Units 25 and
26
26. Word endings:
-le and exceptions e.g.
al, el, ol
27. Word endings:
-able, -ible
28. Word endings:
-tion, -cian, -sion
29. Word ending: -ous
30. Words with ci
and ti eg. ancient, special, initial, gracious
31. Word endings: -ture,
-tain, -ine
32. Word endings: -et,
-ot, -ate, -ite
33. Word endings: -ant,
-ent, -ance, -ence
30-33H. A
'Beat the spellchecker!' test for words from Unit 30 to 33
34. Adding suffixes
to longer words - double or not?
35. A brief history of English
spellings; words of foreign origin; how spelling may develop
in the future.
36. British /American spelling
differences
37. Links to other useful sites
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The Units marked with 'H' are there to help you beat
the spellchecker. They review and test homophones - those
words the computer can't cope with. |
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