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 // 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.
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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