How do I learned how to spell?

avko? try that web site
cheers

would likely help. It’s a 2-book version of the 7-book Sequential Spelling series. This approach was developed by a dyslexic who taught himself to spell. It’s an unusual approach that works very well for most dyslexics.

You would need another adult to work with you, though, as someone has to speak the word and then give you immediate feedback about how you spelled the word.

You can find the series at http://www.avko.org. Just be sure to order the “Adults Only” version, as it is much more condensed and moves much faster than the children’s series.

Nancy

When I was in grade school, back when Robert Blake was still making “Our Gang Comedies”, a boy with whom I went to school, had a problem with spelling. His solution was to make his own dictionary.

Instead of grouping words aphabetically, he grouped words by consonant sounds. His first page was B like in Boy. Everytime he had trouble with a B-word, he wrote it on the B-like-boy page. That would be words like bait, bate, brought, bough, abacus, herb, and so on.

The next page was C like in ocean. Any words with the so called sh sound went on the C-like-ocean page. That would be words like ocean, shepherd, Chicago, Sean, ash, hash, rash, and so on.

Next was D like in dog for words like debt, doubt, done, decide, odd, id, owed, ode,

Next was F like in fog for words like alphabet, flight, fought, physics, phonogragh, ghoti

Next was G like in Gigi for words like azure,

Next came the J like in Jim page for words like George, judge, gym, jam, gem,

Then comes K like in kite, for cat, kite, chorus, chronometer, Iraq, Qatar, Christmas, acronym, accommodate,

A second K page was for ex-words x-ray, exit, exaggerate, exhaust, exonerate. I think that he might have put exaggerate on the J page because he prounced it with a hard g-sound instead of the ks sound.

Then comes L for liquid, lick, Loch Ness, lythium, all right, alright, already

Then comes M for Maine, maneuver, umlaut, Mississippi

Then comes N for nose, niece, kneed, knob, wind, wound

P for plain, plane, airplane, Appalachian

Q was for the th-words though, them, they’re, their, there, rythmn

R was for the th-words thought, through, threw,

S for psychology, cinder, sale, sail, soul, sole,

T for attorney, tractor, wright, right, rite, too, two, to

U for words without consonets, your, you’re, yore

V for of, viceroy, vacuum, avocation

W for both words like who, how when which, whether, whim, ham. Words like whim and ham could also be M or N words.

X was for cheep, cheap … These words might also have found themselves mixed in with the J like in Jim words.

Z is for razor, zinc,

As his dictionary filled with words, he began using two consonents. He moved zinc from the Z page to the Z-K page. He moved pleasure from the P page to the P - J page. He moved ocean form the C page to the C - N page. He moved psycology from the S page to the S - K page. He moved seizure from the S page to the S - G page.

Sara McName