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Spelling Quotes

Posted in Dictionary, Education, English, Quotes, Spell, Spelling, Spelling Quotes, Spelling Rules, Words, tagged , , , , on May 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Spelling Quotes
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well.
- Thomas Jefferson to his daughter
Quotes about Spelling

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Teaching Spelling – Spelling Lists

Posted in Education, English, K-12, List of Spelling Words, McGuffey, Orthography, Practice, Practice Exercises, School, Spelling, Spelling Books, Spelling Curriculum, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Lists, Spelling Practice, Spelling Resources, Spelling Rules, Spelling Tests, Spelling Words, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Teaching Spelling, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Words, Word Study, Words on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Teaching Spelling
Spelling Lists
Lesson 112.
faith     theme    length    sor’row    sol’emn
scrape    chime    launch    dur’ing    hire’ling
strange   whilst   morgue    gib’bet    tres’pass
greet     smart    pledge    bod’kin    shil’ling
perch     badge    gourd     gos’ling   mat’tock
champ     dodge    schist    lob’by     ram’part
drench    brawl    flounce   tan’sy     tran’quil
squeeze   dwarf    screech   lock’et    cun’ning
grist     yawl     spasm     van’dal    her’ring
shrink    grant    starve    ex’tra     drug’gist
copse     spunk    scalp     cut’lass   spon’sor
Teaching Spelling

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Spelling Tests as Indications of Individual Differences

Posted in Education, English, K-12, List of Spelling Words, Orthography, School, Spelling, Spelling Books, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Lists, Spelling Resources, Spelling Tests, Teacher, Teacher Development, Teachers, Teaching, Teaching Spelling, Training, Words on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Spelling Tests as Indications of Individual Differences
Source:  Principles of Teaching, by Adam S. Bennion, Superintendent of Church Schools,
Principles of
Teaching
BY ADAM S. BENNION
_Superintendent of Church Schools_
Designed for Quorum Instructors and Auxiliary Class
Teachers of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.
Published by
THE GENERAL BOARDS OF THE AUXILIARY ORGANIZATIONS
OF THE CHURCH
1921
Everybody is like everybody else in this–that everybody [...]

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List of Homonyms

Posted in Education, English, Homonyms, Homophone, Homophone Games, Homophone List, Homophones, K-12, List of Homophones, List of Spelling Words, McGuffey, Practice, Practice Exercises, Pronunciation, Reading, School, Sound, Sounds, Spell Check, Spelling, Spelling Books, Spelling Curriculum, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Games, Spelling Lists, Spelling Practice, Spelling Resources, Spelling Rules, Spelling Words, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Teaching Spelling, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Words, Word Study, Words, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2007 | 18 Comments »

List of Homonyms – List of Homophones
Lesson 111.
hall, a large room.             hoop, a ring; a band.
haul, to drag by force.         whoop, to make a noise.
hay, dried grass.               hied, made haste.
hey! an exclamation.            hide, to conceal.
hare, an animal.                hoard, to lay up.
hair, of the head.              horde, a tribe.
heal, to cure.                  hoes, plural of hoe.
heel, hinder part [...]

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Spelling

Posted in Basic Spelling Rules, Education, English, Exercises, K-12, List of Spelling Words, McGuffey, Practice, Practice Exercises, Reading, School, Spelling, Spelling Books, Spelling Curriculum, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Lists, Spelling Practice, Spelling Resources, Spelling Rules, Spelling Words, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Teaching Spelling, Training, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Words, Word Games, Word Study, Words, Writing on May 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Spelling
Lesson 110.
false    naught   pitch    batch     edge
quart    sought   flitch   match     hedge
sward    bought   stitch   hatch     ledge
swarm    bright   fitch    latch     wedge
thwart   plight   hitch    patch     fledge
bilge    budge    fosse    breadth   twinge
bridge   judge    thong    breast    print
ridge    drudge   notch    cleanse   fling
hinge    grudge   blotch   friend    string
cringe   plunge   prompt   knell     swift

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