Skills 221: Spelling

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Here you will find selected links to online explanations, exercises, quizzes, tools, and resources that you can work on on your own.

If you are enrolled in a self-paced Skills course and would like to work on the course for credit, please see a Skills instuctor for a specific assignment.

If you are not enrolled in a Skills class but are interested in improving your skills, or if you are enrolled and would like to just explore on your own without receiving credit or feedback from a Skills intructor, click on any of the links below to see what might help you the most.

Prepare for a Standardized Test

Spelling Strategies and Rules

• http://www.mc3.edu/aa/lal/workshops/wksp_spelling/spellingrules.html
  Spelling rules
• http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/spelling_studying.html
  Five guidelines for learning to spell and six ways to practice spelling
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/spelling.htm
  Webster Comnet's suggestions and spelling rules, including a Powerpoint presentation of spelling rules and many quizzes.
• http://www.txstate.edu/slac/writing/spelling_handouts.html
  Handouts on Spelling Generalizations, Words Often Confused & Self-Test, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Rules, Spelling Rules (that work most of the time), Commonly Misspelled Words, Don't Confuse Words That Look Similar

Tools

• http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
  Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary Look up a definition, pronunciation, etymology, spelling, or usage point.