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Index
Title Page Dedication Table of Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter 1 - Why Spelling Matters
Dumb and Dumber (or Is That Dum and Dummer?) How Bad Are Your Vowel Movements? Full Disclosure Spelling = Success Cut to the Chase
Chapter 2 - So How Did English Spelling Get So Screwed Up?
The Welcome (Word) Wagon “Honey, Did You Invite the Huns?” Ye Olde English Ye Olde Middle English The Big Daddy of Vowel Movements: The Great Vowel Shift Spelling Gets Even More Fickle You’re Not Nuts Don’t Say We Didn’t Try Cut to the Chase
Chapter 3 - Why People Misspell Words
Invented Spelling: A Storee for U Sensational Spelling Winnie the Pooh Homographs and Homophones Which Witch Is Which? You Deserve a Break Today Words Are Mispronounced Cut to the Chase
Chapter 4 - How to Learn to Spell
Soup’s On A Method to This Madness How’s It Going? Look for Patterns VCCV Pattern VCV Pattern Everyone Loves a Puzzle Divide and Conquer At the Zoo Use Memory Tricks Learn Spelling Rules You’re On Cut to the Chase
Chapter 5 - Vowel Movement 1: Phun with Phonics
What Are Phonics? Overview: Sound and Sense Making Phonics Work for You! Party Time Patterns for Spelling /a/ Cut to the Chase
Chapter 6 - Vowel Movement 2: Phonics Wirked 4 Me
Warm Up The Eyes Have It: Spelling Short /i/ and Long /i/ 007: License to Spell Blend It Diphthongs Revisiting an Old Friend: The Schwa Cut to the Chase
Chapter 7 - Vowel Movement 3: Spelling Consonants
Hit the Ground Running Spelling the Sound /k/ Spelling the Sound /j/ Spelling the Sound /ch/ Shaken, Not Stirred Break Dancing Cut to the Chase
Chapter 8 - Some Wicked Vowel Movements
English Spelling: Easy Words, Not-So-Easy Words, Totally Infuriating Words Some Letters Should Be Seen but Not Heard Give It a Shot Cut to the Chase
Chapter 9 - What’s with These Prefixes and Suffixes?
Speed and Spell Adding Prefixes Adding Suffixes Cut to the Chase
Chapter 10 - Rule Your Vowel Movements
Rule #1: Every Word Contains at Least One Vowel Rule #2: Every Syllable Contains One Vowel or Vowel Sound Rule #3: q Is Always Followed by a u Rule #4: If the Root Is a Complete Word, Add -able, and If the Root Isn’t a Complete Word, Add -ible Rule #5: -cede Is More Common Than -ceed Rule #6: The Ending -cian Always Refers to a Person, but -tion and -sion Are Never Used for People Rule #7: Use -ist to Show “Someone Who Does Something” and Use -est for Superlative Adjectives Rule #8: Words That End in -ary Are More Common Than Words That End in -ery Cut to the Chase
Chapter 11 - Tight Vowel Movements: Spelling Contractions and Plurals
Personal Spelling Spelling Contractions Spelling Plurals Cut to the Chase
Chapter 12 - The Big Payoff
Why Are Some Words So Hard to Spell? Twenty Common Spelling Demons: All Nouns That Identify People Twenty More Common Spelling Demons: All Nouns That Identify People Twenty Common Spelling Demons: All Nouns That Name Places Twenty Common Spelling Demons: All Nouns That Name Things Twenty Common Spelling Demons: Words That Name Foods Twenty Common Spelling Demons: Words That Describe People Twenty Common Spelling Demons: All Verbs Cut to the Chase
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