Spelling Rules: To Improve Spelling & Confidence

A step-by-step how to spell guide for British & American English

What you'll learn
Understand key spelling rules
Be confident in spelling and writing
Understand why spelling is the way it is
Build words with prefixes and suffixes to help spelling, and reading
Notice letter and spelling patterns
Improve reading and vocabulary too
Requirements
Native speakers who can read and write but need help with spelling.
A good level of English for non-native speakers.
Not for beginner ESL, second language students.
Description
This Spelling Rules course is for both British and American English users, especially native speakers, who feel embarrassed by their spelling, and haven't really had to use spelling much but now because of emails, social media, writing reports, etc., suddenly need to improve spelling for work, training, and to improve job prospects. The course is also great for people who are coming back to studying, who've maybe had a bad experience at school, or maybe need to help children with their spelling. 
This is a clear, friendly, step-by-step course that builds your spelling knowledge and confidence in spelling because it's not about learning obscure spelling rules but useful, very helpful rules: 
Adding -es to nouns and verbs Drop the 'e' rule Silent 'e' magic 'e'1:1:1 doubling up rule for short and long wordsy to i and y to ies rules Silent letter patterns and rules Letter pattern rules (cial/tial, tion/sion/cian, ie or ei…) And many more
Why is learning and knowing spelling rules so helpful?
They help explain why certain letter patterns occur, and why a word is spelled the way it is.They can help you figure out how to spell a word, of course.They help your reading because you can identify the rule's letter patterns.They help you build "long" words with prefixes & suffixes.And they help your confidence to spell well, to read, and to improve your vocabulary.
The course's tutor, Joanne Rudling, is a lecturer, tutor, teacher trainer with 20 years' experience in teaching spelling, literacy and English in colleges in the UK.
It's a video based course with additional PDF worksheets for revision, external exercises & quizzes, and spelling tests, which are all in the Resources section of the course.
Reviews:
I enjoyed the course because it is very clear and you can go over and over it again until you feel comfortable to move on. Darren
A lot of good information is covered and is easy to understand. Joanne is an awesome teacher and I've learned so much from taking her Spelling Strategies Video in 2013. Julie
It is a very good course for people to understand the reason behind spelling. This is a much better way to remember the correct spelling. Zohal 
Great source for improving spelling.Thank you, Joanne. 
So far the course is nicely laid out. I also like the tests after each lesson. John
It's very helpful and interesting Kristy
Excellent materials  JC



Overview

Section 1: Start Here

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Key Words to Know

Lecture 3 How to access the extras/resources

Lecture 4 Self-assessment video

Section 2: Magic 'e' Silent 'e' Spelling Rule

Lecture 5 Magic 'e' Silent 'e' video

Lecture 6 Magic 'e' silent 'e' pairs spelling test

Lecture 7 Magic 'e' Silent 'e' for longer words & names video

Lecture 8 Other uses of the Magic 'e' Silent 'e'

Lecture 9 Magic 'e' Silent 'e' spelling test video

Section 3: Drop the 'e' Spelling Rule

Lecture 10 Drop the 'e' video

Lecture 11 Drop the 'e' exceptions

Lecture 12 Drop or keep the 'e' with -able & -ible revision video

Lecture 13 Drop the 'e' with -able & -ible spelling test

Lecture 14 Common misspelled word: truly

Lecture 15 Common misspelled word: argument

Lecture 16 Common misspelled word: awful

Section 4: Doubling Up Spelling Rules

Lecture 17 1:1:1 Doubling up rule video

Lecture 18 1:1:1 spelling test video

Lecture 19 Revision spelling test - drop the 'e' and 1:1:1 rules

Lecture 20 Double 'l' rule video

Lecture 21 Spelling words ending in -le

Lecture 22 -le spelling test video

Lecture 23 FLOSSY words

Section 5: Words ending in -ck, -ic, -k, -ke

Lecture 24 Words ending in ck, ke, k, ic video

Lecture 25 -ck, -ke, -k, -ic spelling test

Lecture 26 -ck vs. -ke video

Lecture 27 -ck vs. -ke spelling test video

Lecture 28 Words ending in -ic

Lecture 29 -ic spelling test

Section 6: Adding -es to words

Lecture 30 Adding -es to words video

Lecture 31 Adding -es spelling test

Lecture 32 Adding -es or -s to words ending in O

Lecture 33 Words ending in O spelling test

Section 7: Revision & Consolidation

Lecture 34 Magic 'e' Silent 'e' revision video

Lecture 35 Drop the 'e' with -ing revision video

Lecture 36 Drop the 'e' with -ing spelling test

Lecture 37 1:1:1 doubling up rule for longer words revision video

Lecture 38 1:1:1 doubling up rule for short words revision video

Lecture 39 Drop the 'e' and 1:1:1 doubling up spelling test

Lecture 40 -ck vs. -ke revision video

Lecture 41 Adding -es revision video

Section 8: Changing the end "y"

Lecture 42 y to -ies or -s video

Lecture 43 y to -ies or -s spelling test video

Lecture 44 'y' to 'i' rule video

Lecture 45 'y' to 'i' spelling test

Lecture 46 The y to i happy family!

Section 9: Adding -ly to words

Lecture 47 Adding -ly video

Lecture 48 Adding -ly spelling test video

Lecture 49 truely or truly?

Section 10: -f/-fe to -ves or -s rule

Lecture 50 -f/-fe to -ves or -s video

Lecture 51 Spelling test for -f/-fe to -ves or -s rule

Section 11: Building Words With Prefixes and Suffixes

Lecture 52 Prefixes and suffixes introduction

Lecture 53 Building words with prefixes video

Lecture 54 Prefixes spelling test

Lecture 55 Building words with suffixes video

Lecture 56 Suffixes and pronunciation

Section 12: Common Endings

Lecture 57 Adding -ful to words video

Lecture 58 Adding -ful spelling test

Lecture 59 -tion rules & patterns video

Lecture 60 -tion spelling test

Lecture 61 -sion, -cian, -tian rules & patterns video

Lecture 62 -sion, -cian, -tian, -tion spelling test

Lecture 63 -ate patterns and rules

Lecture 64 -ate spelling test

Lecture 65 separate - a frequently misspelled word

Lecture 66 -ate to -ation

Lecture 67 -ate to -ation spelling test

Lecture 68 -cial & -tial video

Lecture 69 -cial & -tial spelling test

Lecture 70 -ant rules and patterns

Lecture 71 -ent rules and patterns

Lecture 72 Three tricky -ent words and how to use memory tricks to help you spell them.

Lecture 73 -ant and -ent spelling test

Lecture 74 -ence and -ance exercise

Lecture 75 -ous rules and patterns

Lecture 76 -ous spelling test

Lecture 77 -able rules and patterns

Lecture 78 -able spelling test

Lecture 79 -ible rules and patterns

Lecture 80 -ible spelling test

Lecture 81 -acy vs. -asy

Lecture 82 -acy vs. -asy spelling test

Section 13: -ie- or -ei- rules and patterns

Lecture 83 -ie- or -ei- letter patterns lesson 1 video

Lecture 84 -ie- or -ei- lesson 1 spelling test

Lecture 85 -ie- or -ei- letter patterns lesson 2 video

Lecture 86 -ie- or -ei- lesson 2 spelling test

Lecture 87 Revision test 1

Lecture 88 Revision test 2

Section 14: Silent Letters

Lecture 89 Silent Letter Rules & Patterns video

Lecture 90 Silent Letter Spelling Test

Lecture 91 -gh- letter pattern & history

Lecture 92 -gh- letter pattern spelling test

Lecture 93 -gh- tricky words

Lecture 94 -gh- tricky words spelling test

Lecture 95 although, though, even though

Lecture 96 although, though, even though spelling test

Lecture 97 through, thorough, thought, though

Lecture 98 Spelling test: through, thorough, thought, though

Section 15: British vs. American Spelling

Lecture 99 British vs. American Spelling

Section 16: Short Revision & Consolidation Lessons

Lecture 100 Magic 'e' Silent 'e' revision video

Lecture 101 Drop the 'e' with -ing revision video

Lecture 102 Drop or keep the 'e' with -able & -ible

Lecture 103 1:1:1 doubling up rule for short words revision video

Lecture 104 1:1:1 doubling up rule for longer words revision video

Lecture 105 Adding -es revision video

Lecture 106 -ck vs. -ke revision video

Lecture 107 Adding -ful revision video

Lecture 108 aweful or awful? awesome or awsome?

Lecture 109 -ant and -ent exercise

Section 17: Common Misspelled Words

Lecture 110 Misspelled words self-assessment

Lecture 111 truly

Lecture 112 awful

Lecture 113 argument

Lecture 114 coolly, really, finally

Lecture 115 successful

Lecture 116 believe, achieve, friend

Lecture 117 receive, foreign, weird

Lecture 118 Misspelled Words Revision 1

Lecture 119 Adding -ly to words ending in 'e'

Lecture 120 beginning

Lecture 121 referred/ing and preferred/ing

Lecture 122 occurred, occurring, occurrence

Lecture 123 independent

Lecture 124 apparently

Lecture 125 existence

Lecture 126 Misspelled Words Revision 2

Lecture 127 noticeable

Lecture 128 foreseeable/unforeseen

Lecture 129 tomorrow

Lecture 130 tattoo

Lecture 131 basically

Lecture 132 publicly

Lecture 133 definitely

Lecture 134 Misspelled Words Revision 3

Lecture 135 across

Lecture 136 forty = 40

Lecture 137 forward

Lecture 138 gist

Lecture 139 sense

Lecture 140 until

Lecture 141 until vs. till

Lecture 142 Misspelled Words Revision 4

Section 18: Revision Tests and Exercises

Lecture 143 Self-assessment 1 video

Lecture 144 Self-assessment 2 video

Lecture 145 Noticing and questioning

Section 19: What's next?

Lecture 146 How to Punctuate your spelling: to master spelling & writing

This course is meant for American and British adult native speakers.,Anyone who is frustrated with their spelling.