Unit 1: Guide to the Spellzone Course
Outline of the program content
The 
course
covers all these topics:
- basic background information to ensure clear understanding
of terms such as vowel, consonant, syllable, suffix, prefix
- tips on different ways to improve your
own spelling and how to remember tricky
words
- several units which take one sound and
teach all the different ways of spelling
that sound, for example:
- all the ways of spelling the sound /ō/ as in boat, hope, arrow, though, toe
- all the ways of spelling the sound /sh'n/ as in action, pension, musician
- spelling rules, such as when you need
to double or change letters, for example:
hop > hopping hope > hoping, hopeless deny > denied, denying
- the common, short but often hard to remember
words, for example:
does could which sure because
- and when to use there/their/they're and to/too/two
- the differences between British and American
spelling
- much on 'homophones' - those tricky words
which sound alike but have different spellings
for different meanings, for example:
meet/meat wail/whale paw/pour
- ............and much, much more.
| The course is presented in a way that combines
tried and tested ways of learning to spell with the latest research
into this topic. Spellzone helps students to learn by
using their ears, eyes and hand - by looking, listening and
writing or typing. |
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| YOU control your path through the program. You can look at each unit and decide if you need to study that topic. |  |
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