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Articles about spelling (0-50 of 2983)
- Methods To Improve Your Spelling
By: Julie Thomas | - Unfortunately the English language is one of the hardest to master. This has to do with the enormous number of words coming from other languages and the existence of exceptions to the normal rules established over the years. In English, there are more than 1,100 ways to spell only 44 types of sounds, this accounts for the troubles mastering the spelling of many English words. However, there are certain directions that you can follow to refine your spelling skills.
The first rule is ...
Tags: spelling, english, writing, education
- Are You Awesome Or Awsome?
By: Chris Meistre | - According to Google, people from the United States search for the word awesome 3,350,000 times a month. They also search 368,000 times a month for the word awsome. Seeing these statistics made me research a bit more. I came across a few debates on what is the correct form of the word awesome (or awsome).
Which one is correct then? Awesome or awsome?
The method I used to find out for myself which should is the correct spelling is described below. I might be wron ...
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- English Learning Tips For Spanish Speakers
By: Amy Nutt | - Learning English can be a rewarding experience. There are many benefits to learning English such as extending your reading resources, watching English television and movies, getting a job or job promotion, and makes travel to an English speaking country easier, and much more. Spanish speakers who are learning English can make use of a variety of learning tools.
The following are a number of tips Spanish speakers can use to learn English:
1. Computer programs and el ...
Tags: Education, English, ESL, Learn English, Online Education, Online Course, Career, Grammer, Spelling
- How To Find Errors In Your Writing Before It's Too Late
By: Carmen Brandt Wolf | - It has happened to all of us whether in an e-mail, a presentation to a group, or in a formal proposal. We go through everything with what we think is a fine-toothed comb to catch all the errors. Yet, as soon as it leaves our control, a mistake is blatantly apparent. How could this happen? We were so careful!
Here are some tips you can use to proof your material. These tips are very easy to incorporate into your daily writing process.
If you are composing or typing ...
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- Language Comprehension, Spell Words Help, Help With Math Difficulty, Education Help.
By: Writing-Fluency | -
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Washington Parent Magazine
Imagery The Sensory-Cognitive Connection for Math
Nanci Bell and Kimberly TuleY
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Why cant everyone think with numbers? Why do some children learn math readily, handle money and time concepts with ease, retain information from year to year, and think w ...
Tags: visualizing reading comprehension, Written Language Skills.
- Dyslexia Spelling| Dyslexia And Spelling| Dyslexia Learning| Dyslexia Reading| Help With Dyslexia
By: Dyslexia and spelling | - Welcome to the Linda mood-Bell Reading Program ( http://www.lindamoodbell.com/) - This program presents an innovative and highly effective Reading Method, designed for individuals, who have difficulty in read. Also its initially created for children, who have learning disabilities; it accommodates reading problems of various origins and is applicable to Children and Adults.
Our Reading workshop guides about how to overcome reading difficulties, reading comprehension sk ...
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- New Toys For Christmas This Year
By: Steve D Evans | - All new toys must first of all be tested before they are marketed and all new toys for Christmas this year will have gone through that process. Of course, health and safety considerations come high on the list but apart form that, and we shall assume that all new toys for Christmas this year for sale in reputable stores have passed that test.
New toys for Christmas this year will also of course almost always have been tested by children in play settings to determine durability, ag ...
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- Great Toys To Give Children
By: Steve D Evans | - Great toys are always a good investment. Perhaps not in financial returns but definitely in the smiles and thank yous that come from family and friends. It is also true to say that the best toy is 90 percent child, 10 percent toy.
Despite the best efforts of the toy makers the best toy is often something you get on your own when you are child which sparks imagination, like a cardboard box. At the time our daughter was five years old, we had boxes like the ones refrigerators come i ...
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- How Editing Can Sculpt Your Next A"'
By: Fred Jones | - Editing a paper means much more than simply correcting spelling and grammatical errors. Editing is a way to shape papers to make them most effective at addressing a point through consistency and coherence. When you are editing your paper take the following suggestions into consideration to guide you through the process of polishing your work.
1) Make sure you know what the assignment is asking for- reread it and ask the instructor if you have any questions about what he or she is ...
Tags: writing, editing, grammar, spelling
- Bringing Fundraising Back In-house - A $13,000 School Success
By: V. Blaze | - October 28, 2008 - How do you spell success? Well the students of the Wyman School spelled it 30 different ways! On October 10th, the Wyman School of Massachusetts held a PTO Ideas' Educational Challenge fundraiser and this 200-student, public school raised just over $13,000 in about 2 weeks.
How did they do this? Students collected pledges for each correctly-spelled word on a spelling test. A simple concept with a dramatic outcome!
A fundraising committee of ten ...
Tags: fundraising, school fundraiser, pto, pta, spelling challenge
- Getting Your Article Deleted When You Wanted It Published-00-127
By: Ben Crabtree, LMT | - Have you done a lot of hard work preparing articles for your article marketing campaign only to have your articles deleted by the editors of article directories? You're not alone. As the number of articles written and submitted to article directories has increased so have the standards for article acceptance. So, in order to assist my fellow article marketers I've come up with the most common reasons articles are deleted from article directories and broken it down by article sections.
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- Recession Proof Your Job By Checking For Grammar Mistakes
By: Frank G. Thornton | - Bad writing, full of grammar and spelling mistakes, sticks out like a sore thumb, There's no hiding, especially when your documents or emails are viewed in Word or Outlook which have a spelling and grammar checker which flags your grammar mistakes.
In Fall 2008, the recession is upon us. You think businesses aren't looking where to cut employees to lower their business costs? Employers are looking for reasons to let people go, so if your writing isn't up to scratch, now's the t ...
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- Do Not Check Grammar Mistakes In Your Business Writing And Your Job Could Be At Risk
By: Frank G. Thornton | - Have you ever received a piece of business correspondence and realized the sender didn't check for grammar mistakes? How did you react? You were probably disgusted and might have thought...
"How could anyone make those grammar mistakes, and worse, why didn't they check for grammar mistakes before they sent it!"
The industry figures for grammar errors in business communications are pretty depressing. Apparently over 65% of business correspondence has some type of ...
Tags: check grammar mistakes, spelling and grammar check
- Heather Locklear
By: qaswer | - While attending the University of California, Los Angeles, Locklear began modeling and working in commercials for the school store. In 1979, Locklear landed her first roles appearing in Tales of the Unexpected, and an episode of CHiPs a year later. She landed a few more bit parts in shows, including Eight Is Enough, before Aaron Spelling cast her in the role of Sammy Jo Dean during the second season of his TV series Dynasty. It would be the beginning of a highly successful long-term collaboratio ...
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- Search Engine Optimization And English Spelling
By: Munish Bhardwaj | - Recently I was analyzing keywords used by the visitors to search my website and thought of discussing some issues related to spelling with other people.
I found many people coming to my website are not using the correct spellings while searching in the search engines. It is fact that a large number of people who use internet through out the world do not have good knowledge of English. You may found lot of people of China, India, France, Germany, Russia and many other countries do ...
Tags: IT outsourcing, software development, search engine optimization, SEO services, directory submission services
- Cell Phone Texting Can Endanger Spelling
By: Peter Woronoff | - There is a clear relationship between computers and learning. In the eyes of many people, the internet is a channel to learn news and information without ever leaving your home, if you've got a 24 hour internet connection. More or less, it can be educational and great fun to enjoy these innovations.
Going digital these days is very popular. You do not belong in this generation if you do not know PC applications and how to use mobile phones. Everything now, is digitally inscribed, ...
Tags: Effects on spelling, Spelling Crisis, Spelling Success, Spelling secrets, Spelling internet, Spellin
- Spelling Games: A Fun And Easy Way To Learn
By: Peter Woronoff | - Games are kids' favorite pastime. We can motivate, grab their interest, and teach them almost anything while they are having fun. Take a look at free on line games for kids. There are thousands of them on the internet that showcase educational games, and play to learn strategies driven by curiosity and eagerness to master simple and then more challenging tasks.
Although these materials would really be a channel for these kids to excel in Math, Science, Spelling, etc., many parent ...
Tags: Spelling Crisis, Spelling Success, Spelling secrets, Spelling internet, Spelling on line,
- Spell Out Your Spelling Crisis Online
By: Peter Woronoff | - The school is the best place to learn but somehow it is not more fun if it is filling you with frustrations about math and spelling. Then do some research but let's forget about the math, we can do something better for your spelling crisis. Look, it is fun and easy to master it. Compare yourself to Chinese children living in China, for example they don't have any problems in spelling because their kind of writing is basically written in characters that is closely related to pictures. However, fo ...
Tags: Spelling Crisis, Spelling Success, Spelling secrets, Spelling internet, Spelling on line
- Spelling Matters - Confessions Of The World's Worst Speller
By: Peter Woronoff | - This is a true story about my friend, Doug O'Brien. He is an accomplished musician and NLP trainer, personally trained and certified by Tony Robins and yet he had the following confession to share with me:
Confession number one: I was the world's worst speller.
Confession number two: I always hated my brother and sister.
Well, OK, not really. But I hated that they always got such good grades in school when it was such a struggle for me. I was real ...
Tags: spelling, fun, education, 3rd grade, third grade, learning, children, game, learning game, spell
- Please, Write Like A Pro
By: Roberta Johnson | - There are millions of articles to read all over the net these days, some written by pros and some by amateurs. What I am repeatedly struck with however, is the constant and steady supply of poor grammar, bad spelling and incorrect word usage by otherwise great authors. Many have great content in their messages, at least part of which gets lost while the reader tries to interpret what the author meant to say. Any one of these three issues can result in the readers' lost interest in the articl ...
Tags: spelling, grammar, word usage, write, author
- Easily Confused Words
By: J. McCorquodale | - Mistakes in using one word for another when they are similar in spelling but different in meaning are easily made.
When editing, or simply reading, business documents drafted in English I have noted that certain pairs of words that are pronounced or spelt similarly are frequently confused even at times by native English writers! Some of the most common mistakes are discussed below.
Enquire / Inquire
Traditionally, enquire (enquiry) and inquire (inqui ...
Tags: english language, affect, effect, inquiry, vocabulary words, spelling words, translation agency, translation services, french translation
- English Spelling Variations - Post A Disclaimer On Your Website
By: Heather Hansen | - I don't know if you've noticed, but the spelling police run rampant in cyberspace! From website guest books to blog comments, these policemen and women are constantly writing tickets for the slightest infringements on English spelling rules. Unfortunately there is no Spelling Police Academy that explains to these officials the differences between American and British spelling. That's why you'll find so many websites today (especially websites dealing with topics related to the English language) ...
Tags: English, writing, spelling, language, communication, website copy
- Is It Necessary To Hire A Spelling Tutor?
By: Jane Saeman | - A spelling tutor is a professional who specializes in helping students who have trouble with spelling words. Spelling is a particularly important subject for children in primary school and the dreaded "spelling test" is considered something of a right of passage for many students. While spelling proficiency is indeed very important, the necessity of being able to spell at a high level is not as important as it once was.
While written communication used to consist entirely of t ...
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- Automatically Check Your Spelling In Oe
By: Elizabeth Boston | - Dear Computer Lady,
Before my computer went to the shop, when I clicked on the send button in Outlook Express email it would check autimatically the spelling which was a huge help to me.
Now it doesn't and I'd like to know how I can get that back like it was. I have Windows Xp.
Thank you in advance, Cheryl.
Dear Cheryl,
I would be glad to tell yo uhow to get your Outlook Express to automatically check the spelling again. ...
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- Proofreading Tips - Four Effective Proofreading Tips
By: Elaine Currie | - When writing anything for publication, proofreading should never be skipped or skimped. Thorough proofreading and editing should be an integral part of the writing process. Here are four tips for effective proofreading.
1. Check Your Spelling.
Always check your spelling. If you are writing an article for publication or copy for a web page, spelling errors will give your work an unprofessional appearance. People reading your article or visiting your website will ...
Tags: Proofreading, Editing, Writing, Publication, Readers, Publishing, Articles, Spelling
- Can You Really Learn A Foreign Language In Your Sleep?
By: Kathy Steinemann | - The average human utilizes less than 10% of the brain. What's happening with the rest? Can it be harnessed while you sleep? The answer is a qualified 'yes'.
Sleep learning has been employed with varying degrees of success for many years. It is not a completely passive process, however. You can't plug in headphones, listen to a German CD, and expect to wake up in the morning, fluently speaking German.
About 50% of our daily speech is composed of approximately 100 com ...
Tags: foreign, language, languages, learn, learning, study, sleep, sleep-learning, hypnosis, night, self-hypnosis, CD, MP3, package, packages, vocabulary, grammar, spelling
- Hystorical Spelling Quotes
By: Peter Woronoff | - While we are aware of the importance of the correct spelling, we feel an obligation to provide access to alternate views :-)
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
- President Andrew Jackson
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
- Mark Twain
"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now ...
Tags: spelling, fun, education, 3rd grade, third grade, learning, children, game, learning game, spell
- Home Schooling Tips For Young Children
By: Jerry Cahill | - If you are considering or doing home schooling there are some benchmarks you can use. When your child has reached the equivalency of second grade they have already learned a host of language items. One of these critical learning elements is that of correct spelling. Home educators just like teachers work diligently to reinforce spelling words at the second grade level.
As a home educator you can follow the methodical approach to teaching second grade spelling that is used by ...
Tags: home schooling, homeschooling, second grade spelling, education
- How Spelling And Grammar Is Important For Good Article
By: Roel Sundiam | - The articles are the life and bread of a website that is dealing with traffic for revenue generation. The quality articles will be responsible for the traffic on the website. There is also another side to this where you can change the fortunes by simple adding a few keywords to the otherwise seemingly normal article to make it more innovative. But to do that we need to address that elusive question in how spelling and grammar is important for a good article to be written.
The ques ...
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- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Tickets - Make Your Theater Debut
By: Jay Nault | - If you're lucky enough to secure The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee tickets, you'd better be prepared. Not only is this show already a smash hit in theaters all over the world, but its unique approach to its production is making waves with those who've seen it. The show is literally different every time it appears on stage, and a look at the production in some detail will explain why it's taking the world by storm.
About the Play
The 25th Annual Putnam Count ...
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- Want A Great Speller Now?
By: Pat Wyman | - If your child suffers with low spelling grades every week, here is an Instant Learning strategy excerpt from my Learning vs Testing book, proven to raise spelling grades pronto!
Answer the following questions:
Does your child use an outdated technique like writing their spelling words 10 times each and using them in sentences?
Do you study the words out loud with your child just before the test?
Is your child disappointed when he or ...
Tags: spelling, better spelling, speller, how to spell, better spelling grades
- Should You Consider Hiring A Spelling Tutor For Your Child?
By: Jane Saeman | - A spelling tutor is a professional who specializes in helping students who have trouble with spelling words. Spelling is a particularly important subject for children in primary school and the dreaded "spelling test" is considered something of a right of passage for many students. While spelling proficiency is indeed very important, the necessity of being able to spell at a high level is not as important as it once was.
While written communication used to consist entirely of t ...
Tags: spelling, tutors, education
- Tips To Avoid Typos And Spelling Errors In Your Articles
By: Arun Pal Singh | - Typos and spelling errors give writers a constant headache. Not only it makes the reading unpleasant but also it puts a doubt on your credibility.
Readers are too harsh when it comes to judging an author. They can overlook the content to some extent but typos and spelling errors are unpardonable. Unfortunately every body is a victim of these errors and sometimes these are realized after your work is published.
You have written a great article and are very happy with ...
Tags: spelling errors, typos, avoiding typos, avoiding spelling errors, article errors
- What Are The Best Ways Of Teaching Spelling?
By: Teresa Styles | - It seems that most studies of teaching spelling begin at the same place: a child's understanding of communication begins with sound. From infancy they are surrounded by sounds, which become words. As they are exposed to printed text, they learn to associate phonemes, the sounds they here with graphemes, the visual representation of those words.
Toddlers who are exposed to the alphabet are usually fascinated with the letters. Once they have learned the names of the letters, they ca ...
Tags: teaching spelling, spelling, teaching, education
- Advantages Of In-home Tutoring
By: Jane Saeman | - If you are thinking about in-home tutoring for your child you are not alone. There are many people that use this method to get their child back on track. In addition, this type of tutoring also allows for you, the parent, to take a step back. In many cases, a child will simply be reluctant to work with a parent to improve their school work. But the second that a tutor comes into the picture they are much more willing to cooperate.
Listed below are just a few of the advantages ...
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- Online Dictionary: Your Source For Greater Knowledge
By: Synergize Marketing | - An online dictionary is very useful for many people. They can be used to look up words in a convenient manner without having to have a heavy bound book lying around. Using an online dictionary is as simple as going to a website and typing in the word. They are also very convenient for people who write for a living or who are responsible for communicating using the written word often in their job. These handy tools are easily accessible and you will not have to step away from the computer to ...
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