Spelling

100 Commonly Misspelled Words - Test Your Skills!
100 Commonly Misspelled Words - Test Your Skills
Are you a good speller? Do you use good grammar? Do you know what an adverb is? An acronym? How many of the Top 100 commonly misspelled words do you misspell most often? See the top 100 list and test your skills. Resource links and funny spelling bee video included.

Potato or Potatoe? Does It Matter?
Is Proper Spelling, Grammar or Pronunciation a Measure of Intelligence?
Long before Noah Webster published the first American dictionary there's been controversy over spelling, grammar, and pronunciation. I can still hear my mother. "Don't say ain't, it's not a word." "That's poor grammar, speak intelligently." "Go look it up!" Hey wait a minute! We're all blessed with some level of intelligence and who has the right to tell me that I don't sound smart if I say "ain't" or if you say "liberry" instead of "library"!! Hmmm.... Former VP Dan Quayle was never able ...

Spelling
How to Make Spelling Fun
Spelling -- didn't you dread it in school: the pages and pages full of your words written "ten times each," cramming for a test each Thursday night, and the deadly dull Spelling Bee each year? It doesn't have to be boring! Make spelling fun with games and hands-on activities. There are a multitude of different ways to practice spelling words. The ideas here can be used with whatever spelling curriculum or approach you use. photo credit

Best Self Paced Spelling Programs
Individualized Spelling Instruction For Student Success
I'm not a fan of spelling tests -- at least not the one-size-fits-all spelling tests of my childhood. Some children already know virtually every word on their spelling list, and for them 'spelling' becomes an exercise in handwriting practice... or, worse, in perfectionism. Other children miss word after word week after week, and they too learn little. Their spelling troubles may not be for lack of effort -- they are simply not at the spelling developmental level to benefit from grade level in...