Spelling Sounds and Patterns

To improve spelling, reading & pronunciation

4.75 (62 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Spelling Sounds and Patterns
444
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16 hours
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Mar 2022
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$24.99
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What you will learn

Relate speech sounds to spelling.

Learn how sounds, letter patterns, rules and history are all connected and how they influence spelling.

Understand how short and long vowel sounds influence spelling.

Discover the 44 sounds of English and their letter patterns.

Learn hard and soft consonant sounds and their rules and patterns.

Understand why certain letter patterns (want, walk, work) are pronounced "strangely"

Know the history of spelling and speaking and why it's not phonetic.

Improve reading by learning letter patterns, which is a proven way to improve reading.

Why take this course?

From the creator of Udemy's best-selling Spelling Rules: to improve spelling & confidence course, comes the perfect follow-on course - Spelling Sounds and Patterns: To improve spelling, reading & pronunciation to give you even more spelling knowledge and confidence to spell, read and write.

You'll learn how sounds, letter patterns, history, structure of words, and rules are all connected and influence the spelling of words.

Learning how speech sounds connect to spelling is one of the foundation blocks of learning to spell. Learning to spell well isn't about using one method. It's a complex subject that needs various methods and approaches to learn it well.

This course will help you

  • Relate sounds to spelling.

  • Know how sounds, letter patterns, rules and history are all connected and influence spelling.

  • Understand long and short vowel sounds and how they influence spelling.

  • Identify and spell common letter patterns. 

  • Know the relationship between spelling rules, letter patterns and sounds.

  • Learn important vowel patterns (-ea-, -au-, -ui- -ie- and -ei-) and their sounds.

  • Learn how consonants like the letter c and g can have hard and soft sounds, and the rules and history around these.

  • Learn why certain letters like the W in warn, world, swab, squad are pronounced the way they are.

  • Understand what Standard English is.

  • Know that your accent is your soul and identity and shouldn't be changed, but knowing a standardised way of saying things can help spelling.

  • Improve reading by learning letter patterns, which is a proven way to improve reading.


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Reviews

Guadalupe
May 9, 2022
I like this course easy to understand I have a problem with Dyslexia and this course is helping me understand how to become a better speller very good very good I gave afive impress st
Clinton
April 9, 2021
This course is very helpful, and I do recommend it. please remember it will take time and effort to improve these skills. So don't let yourself become discouraged. Just keep plugging away at it and you'll see improvement.

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