How To Spell Words Accurately Always

It has been observed that poor spellers try to memorize the spelling as if it were an arbitrary string of letters to them.

It is true that arbitrary strings are very hard to remember, and it takes a lot of time to learn those things.

The following article will educate you about how to study spelling words.

Here, spelling strategies for students are described in detail, which will help them to improve as a seller.

Read the article carefully to know about the strategies that would help the student focus on the pronunciation of a word before seeing its spelling.

With this approach, the student gets to know that spelling is a meaningful map of pronunciation.

Hence, when the student understands the spelling as a pronunciation map, it becomes much easier for them to remember.

Examples

Say the word – night

• Enunciate each syllable 

1. Stretch the word – /nnn-iii-t-t-t/

• Work by syllables if necessary.
• If a sound can't be stretched, stutter it.

2. Split up the sounds.

• Work by syllables if necessary.
• First sound? /n/
• Next sound? /i/
• Last sound? /t/

3. Count the sounds. 3

4. Draw blanks. ___ ___ ___

• The blanks stand for the sounds.
• Put slashes between syllables if necessary.

The Next Is To Help the Student in Learning the Spellings

5. Study the spelling.

• Ask, what does [the pattern] say? In our example, what does igh say? Only ask about tricky parts.

6. Write the word – night

7. Give the meaning.

• What does ______ mean? When it's dark out.

Check out the shortcut version of the above strategy: 

1.    Say

2.    Stretch

3.    Split up

4.    Count

5.    Draw blanks

6.    Record

7.    Study

8.    Write

9.    Give meaning

How Rhyming Can Help a Student to Spell Words Properly

One of the best strategies by which students can improve the spelling of words is rhyming.

The strategy will help the students to know how common sounds can be translated to common spelling.

Hence, teachers can introduce this concept through songs and even consider nursery rhymes to create rhyming word lists.

The rhyming concept will educate the student on how a single letter in a short word can help create rhyme with similar spelling like ‘dog,’ ‘fog,’ ‘log,’ etc.

This will help the student to know how many words they can make from a single route.

Conclusion

I hope the above blog has helped you to know about the strategies to spell words properly.

You can also have access to the dictionary as this would help you to know new words.

The new words build confidence, and thus, you can get plenty of parts correct while spelling the word