Spelling Strategies & Secrets: The essential how to spell guide

Spelling Strategies & Secrets helps you to improve, remember and learn spellings. It guides you through using memory tricks, words within words, noticing letter patterns and word families, and explains why spelling is the way it is. Also, spelling secrets and myths are revealed and debunked so you feel less frustrated by spelling. The aim of this book is to give you the confidence to spell well; to know that you can use these strategies to help you spell tricky words, and know that it is not cheating. We have so many variations of spelling and a huge vocabulary that we need little reminders to spell some words. It's also a great book for teachers, and homeschoolers, to help you teach and explain spelling.This book is not about learning obscure words but about learning common, everyday words that are some of the most misspelled in British and American English.