Contents

The full English spelling course contains over 450 pages of online teaching, spelling tests, spelling rules, rule breakers, homophones and progress checks in English spelling which is organised into 37 teaching units. Please click on the + symbols to view more information about each unit.

Six units are FREE to all users. Units 1 and 2 give more of an overview of the course but if you want to get started immediately then please try one of the other four FREE units.

1. Introduction and Guide to the Course - FREE +

2. Tips on how to learn spellings - FREE +

3. The basic 'Building Bricks' of the English language +

4. Spelling the consonant sounds +

5. Spelling the consonant digraphs +

4-5H. Beat the Spellchecker: Course units 4 and 5 +

6.Spelling the short vowel sounds +

6H: Beat the Spellchecker: Course unit 6 +

7. Spelling the long vowel sounds +

7H: Beat the Spellchecker: Course unit 7 +

8: Syllables: vowel and consonant patterns +

9: Adding suffixes: the spelling rules +

10. Spelling the sound /ar/ +

11. Spelling the sound /er/ +

12. Spelling the sound /air/ +

10-12H. Beat the Spellchecker: Course units 10, 11 and 12 +

13. Spelling the sound /oo/ - FREE +

13H. Beat the Spellchecker: Course unit 13 - FREE +

14. Spelling the sound /or/ +

14H. Beat the Spellchecker: Unit 14 +

15. Spelling the sound /ou/ +

16. Spelling the sound /oi/ +

17. ough and augh words +

15-17H. Beat the Spellchecker: Units 15 and 17 +

18. Common words with odd spellings +

19. The soft g sound: ge gi gy words +

20. The soft c sound: ce ci cy words +

20H. Beat the Spellchecker: Unit 20 +

21. Spelling the ie and ei words
'i before e except after c' - FREE -
Words that follow the best-known rule 'i before e except after c': ie and cei
Spelling test: ie and cei
Long /a/ sound: ei words. Spelling test. A new rule.
Rules and rule breakers, including: ie in a suffix
Final Spelling test
Homophones

21H. Beat the Spellchecker: Unit 21 - FREE +

22. Words with silent letters +

22H. Beat the Spellchecker: Unit 21 +

23. Prefixes +

24. Spelling the 'schwa' sound - the neutral vowel +

25. Spelling the schwa ending: er ar or our re a +

26. Spelling the endings -le -al -el +

25-26H. Beat the Spellchecker: Units 25 and 26 +

27. Spelling the endings -able and -ible +

28. Spelling -tion -cian and -sion words +

29. Spelling the endings -ous and -us +

30. Spelling the endings -cial -tial -cious -tious +

31. Spelling the endings -ture -ain -ine +

32. Spelling the endings -et -ot -ate -ite +

33. Spelling the endings -ant -ent -ance -ence +

30-33H. Beat the Spellchecker: Units 30, 32 and 33 +

34. Adding suffixes to longer words +

35. Why is English spelling so hard? +

36. British and American spelling differences +

37. Useful links +