SpellingWorks

Welcome to the Spellingworks page.

SpellingWorks: A workbook of spelling strategies is a self-study spelling workbook for adults and young adults, in graphic format. Written by Maureen Hague and Clare Harris, it’s for people who ‘get stuck’ spelling certain words, or feel their spelling is hopeless, and it offers long-term strategies for improving spelling.

It’s now out of print, but is available here as a free pdf download (with huge thanks to the generosity of Pearson Education and our wonderful illustrator Shane Nagle).

Thanks also to those publishers whose works we quoted from, who have agreed to this further use of their work – if anyone thinks they have been omitted, please contact us.

The usual conditions apply – please make this download free to students, don’t sell it, or copy without acknowledgement. We hope you find it useful!

Here is the SpellingWorks pdf file. It’s quite a large file (11.3 MB) so will take a little time to download.

Using SpellingWorks: for teachers and tutors

July 17, 2016June 9, 2020 by clareharris

If you’ve read an earlier post on ‘Would we do it differently now?’, you’ll know that if I was writing this book again, I’d put far more emphasis on making sure that learners have a good understanding of sound-symbol correspondence in English. At the same time, they need to know that every pattern has exceptions … Continue reading Using SpellingWorks: for teachers and tutors

Spelling mistakes

July 17, 2016June 9, 2020 by clareharris

It’s so easy to make those little mistakes and typos (and don’t get me started on auto-correct ‘fails’) … but what about when they’re made in public? If you (or your students) wondered whether small mistakes really matter, you might like to look at this collection of 50 of the Most Unfortunate Spelling Mistakes Ever (from … Continue reading Spelling mistakes

SpellingWorks: would we do it differently now?

July 17, 2016June 9, 2020 by clareharris

Back when SpellingWorks was first published, there were books around on phonics, and on spelling rules, but not much on spelling strategies… so we focussed a lot on developing those strategies. Now I look at the book again, though, I think if I was writing it again, I’d put more emphasis at the start on … Continue reading SpellingWorks: would we do it differently now?

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