Spelling Essentials – Handbook of English spelling rules and definitions – Ages 9–12

A knowledge of a few basic spelling principles can be beneficial to everyone, regardless of their spelling ability. Understanding the reasons for such spelling principles as doubling consonants like ‘t’, ‘s’, ‘p’, ‘l’, ‘m’ and ‘n’ or dropping the final ‘e’ before adding a suffix can help everyone improve their spelling. Spelling is one of the most important elements of writing and everyone should strive to be as accurate as possible. This can be as easy as running your eyes over your work before passing it on or keeping a dictionary close by to check any words of which you are unsure.

Spelling Essentials is designed as an easy reference guide to aid you when checking work. Keep it handy and remember that the more conscious you are of the accuracy of your work, the more accurate you will become!

Features:

• comprehensive, easy reference guide designed to help students when checking their work
• explains the principle and gives examples of words that fit into that principle
• creates an easily accessible word bank for students
• the book is broken into vowels, consonants, plurals, tense, prefixes, suffixes, use of apostrophes, gimmicks, rules for capitals, acronyms, abbreviations and root words