Skills 221: Spelling

Welcome!

Here you will find selected links to online explanations, exercises, quizzes, tools, and resources that you can work on on your own.

If you are not enrolled in a Skills class but are interested in improving your skills, or if you are enrolled and would like to just explore on your own without receiving credit or feedback from a Skills intructor, click on any of the links below to see what might help you the most.

Spelling Strategies and Rules

• http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/spelling_studying.html
  Five guidelines for learning to spell and six ways to practice spelling
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/spelling.htm
  Webster Comnet's suggestions and spelling rules, including a Powerpoint presentation of spelling rules and many quizzes.
• http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/index.asp Multisensory strategies, rules and wordlists

Tools

• http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
  Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary Look up a definition, pronunciation, etymology, spelling, or usage point

Standardized test prepration

Click "Preparing for Standardized Tests" to see testing links and learn more.