http://www.ultimatevocabulary.com/how-to-improve-your-spelling-skills/ Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:36:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://www.ultimatevocabulary.com/how-to-improve-your-spelling-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-7733 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:26:36 +0000 http://www.ultimatevocabulary.com/blog/?p=1098#comment-7733 I agree that playing with words is useful, partly because that way we can ‘make friends’ with them and it may foster more relaxed associations with spelling. However, tests are only good if you are already a good speller – otherwise they are just confirmation that you can’t spell well. Personally I think there is too much emphasis on testing spelling not enough on teaching it. To improve spelling people need to learn strategies and predictable patterns of letter strings. A little knowledge of etymology is a very useful thing too.
Johanna

]]> http://www.ultimatevocabulary.com/how-to-improve-your-spelling-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-7723 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:09:54 +0000 http://www.ultimatevocabulary.com/blog/?p=1098#comment-7723 […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by shuttlecock74, ultimatevocab. ultimatevocab said: How gud r u at speling? Not so good? Then you might want to check out today's blog post for some helpful tips: http://tinyurl.com/29fl33t […]

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