Table of Contents

	Introduction	p. v
	Spelling Pretest	p. vii
	The Importance of Spelling
	Why Bother to Spell Correctly	p. 3
	Why Is Spelling So Difficult	p. 5
	Linguistic Change	p. 5
	Our Confusing Alphabet	p. 6
	Homonyms and Homophones	p. 7
	More Confusing Word Pairs	p. 8
	Regional Pronunciations	p. 9
	Why We Misspell	p. 10
	Mispronunciation	p. 10
	Hasty Reading	p. 12
	Infrequent Reading	p. 12
	Faulty Observation	p. 12
	Failure to Consult the Dictionary	p. 13
	How to Become a Good Speller	p. 14
	Learn the Rules and Develop Memory Devices	p. 14
	Consult the Dictionary	p. 15
	Using a Dictionary for Pronunciation and Spelling	p. 16
	Make Your Own Spelling List	p. 17
	Listen Attentively	p. 17
	Mnemonics	p. 19
	Focusing on Words Frequently Misspelled	p. 19
	Acronyms in Mnemonics	p. 20
	Acronyms ... Plus	p. 20
	Mnemonics and the Telephone	p. 21
	Rules for Spelling
	Better Spelling by Ear	p. 25
	Some Special Problems	p. 33
	IE and EI	p. 33
	-SEDE, -CEED, -CEDE	p. 37
	Prefixes	p. 39
	A List of Common Prefixes	p. 39
	Adding a Prefix	p. 41
	Pay Attention to PER-, PRE-, PRO-	p. 43
	Confusing Suffixes	p. 45
	Words Ending in -ABLE, -IBLE	p. 45
	The Adverbial Suffix -LY	p. 48
	Words Ending in -OUS	p. 49
	Troublesome Affixes -AL, -EL, -LE	p. 51
	Words Ending in -ER or -OR	p. 55
	Words Ending in -AR	p. 56
	Words Ending in -ANCE, -ENCE	p. 57
	Words Ending in -ENSE	p. 59
	Words Ending in -ARY, -ERY	p. 60
	Words Ending in -ISE, -IZE	p. 61
	Plurals of Nouns	p. 63
	Regular Plurals	p. 63
	Nouns Ending in a Sibilant Sound	p. 63
	Nouns Ending in Long O	p. 64
	Nouns Ending in -F or -FE	p. 65
	Nouns Ending in -Y	p. 67
	Special Situations	p. 68
	The Final -Y	p. 73
	The -Y Preceded by a Vowel	p. 73
	The -Y Preceded by a Consonant	p. 75
	The Final -E	p. 78
	Dropping the Final -E	p. 79
	Retaining the Final -E	p. 84
	Unusual Situations	p. 86
	Doubling Final Consonants	p. 90
	One-Syllable Words	p. 90
	Words of More Than One Syllable	p. 91
	Special Situations	p. 93
	How Consonants Determine Meaning	p. 94
	English as a Second Language	p. 98
	Minimal Differences in Spelling	p. 98
	Special Devices
	The Hyphen	p. 115
	Compound Adjectives	p. 115
	Compound Nouns	p. 119
	Compound Numbers and Fractions	p. 120
	Compounds with Certain Particles	p. 120
	Used for Clarity	p. 123
	Used to Divide Words	p. 123
	The Apostrophe	p. 125
	To Show Contraction	p. 125
	To Show Possession	p. 125
	To Avoid Repetition of S Sound	p. 127
	To Indicate Double Ownership	p. 127
	Capital Letters	p. 129
	Basic Principles	p. 129
	Proper Nouns	p. 129
	Books, Plays, Music	p. 131
	Spelling Abbreviations	p. 133
	The Calendar	p. 133
	Business and Postal Terms	p. 134
	Personal Titles	p. 136
	Measurement Terms	p. 136
	Troublesome Words
	Homonyms and Homophones and Other Confusing Pairs of Words	p. 141
	Homonyms and Homophones	p. 141
	Other Confusing Pairs of Words	p. 151
	Word Building	p. 156
	Word Families	p. 156
	Most Frequently Misspelled Words	p. 159
	The One Hundred Pests	p. 159
	Business Terms	p. 160
	Computer Terms	p. 164
	Computer Acronyms	p. 164
	Medical Terms	p. 168
	Medical Terms	p. 168
	Measuring Your Progress
	Achievement Tests	p. 177
	Achievement Test 1	p. 177
	Achievement Test 2	p. 180
	Achievement Test 3	p. 181
	Achievement Test 4	p. 184
	Achievement Test 5	p. 186
	Achievement Test 6	p. 189
	Achievement Test 7	p. 191
	Answer Key	p. 193
	For Chapters 4-23	p. 193
	For Achievement Tests 1-7	p. 206
	10,000 Word Ready Reference Spelling List	p. 211

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