Help . . i really need your advice. . how can i improve my spelling skill?? i've always tried to study, ?

jot down words commonly mispelled but whenever our teacher gave us spelling exam i cant get a high score and some of the words i studied will not be asked in our exam. sometimes i think i'm just wasting my time studying those words and it will not come out in the test.Help . . i really need your advice. . how can i improve my spelling skill?? i've always tried to study, ?
There is no substitute for reading a lot. Just as we learn spoken language by hearing lots of people speaking, we learn written language, including spelling, by reading what a lot of people write. Spelling is not about how a word sounds, it’s about how it looks on the page, which means you have to look at a lot of words on the page to learn how they are spelled. End of story, really – the first step to improving your spelling has to be to read a lot (and it should go without saying, read a lot of stuff that’s spelled correctly; txtng ur frnds may b fun bt isn’t going 2 hlp ur spllng).





Make a list of your commonly misspelled words. When you catch yourself spelling the same word wrong over and over, write it down somewhere (back of a Moleskine is a good place). When you get a chance, look it up and put the correct spelling next to it. (Make sure you mark which is correct!) Unlike the massive lists of “commonly misspelled words” in the back of dictionaries and the like, this is a custom list that reflects the words and spelling rules you have trouble with – so instead of a huge list of Other People’s Problems you have a custom-made guide to your own.





Use mnemonics. There’s an MnM in mnemonic! Mnemonics are memory tricks or devices, like “i before e except after c”. Since spelling rules are often abstract and, in English, even contradictory (what sound does “gh” make?), they are hard to memorize by themselves. Mnemonics “sneak in” through a different part of your mind, by rhyming, presenting an image, or forming a pattern that makes better sense than “that’s just how it’s spelled”.





Here are some examples of spelling mnemonics:


It’s necessary to have 1 Collar and 2 Socks.


A piece of pie


You hear with your ear.


Pull apart to separate.


Definite has 2 i’s in it


There is a place just like here.


Because: Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants


Cemetery has three e’s – eee! – like a scream.


IN NO CENTury is murder an innocent crime.


Slaughter is LAUGHTER with an S at the beginning.


These are all taken from The North Coast Institute Learning Institute and Audiblox; check out these sites for more.





Study spelling with Carolyn. The National Spelling Bee offers a 36-week spelling course, a lesson a week, by Carolyn Andrews, an ex-teacher and spelling coach to her championship-winning son. Each week’s lesson focuses on an aspect of spelling; taken a week at a time, it’s a good way to cover the basics. Unfortunately, the site doesn’t offer an RSS feed or email subscription; since the main page offers the most current lesson, you can monitor it for changes using a service like ChangeDetection.





Put a mark next to every word you look up in the dictionary. If you look it up more than once, add it to you personal list.





Write write write! The only way to really learn a word is to use it, and that counts for spelling as much as for learning its meaning. When you look up how to spell a word, write it down several times in a row, and do it again a day or two later – you’re trying to build up the motor memory of writing it correctly spelled. Write a blog, a journal, emails, a novel, anything that will keep you using words – and pay special attention as you write to the words that come up wrong (spell-check is good for this, at least!). Let others read your writing, and ask them to circle misspelled words (or post it to a blog – blog readers make especially harsh taskmasters where spelling errors are involved!)Help . . i really need your advice. . how can i improve my spelling skill?? i've always tried to study, ?
associate words within words.


like------unusual...notice that in the middle of the word is usu...


or..referenced...rence..


sometimes you can study too hard ...take it easy and your time...


research...sear


I used this even as a kid and can spell good..now 58.


hope this helps you.









I am a great speller because I did a lot of reading. If you like reading just try reading more and it doesn't have to be something like a boring textbook, but can be fiction novels etc.
Try to read a lot more books, newspapers etc. The more times you see words in print, the easier it will be to remember how they are spelt.