PAINLESS Spelling (Third Edition)
The Pain Vanishes when you transform Spelling into fun
- Understand American English sound and letter patterns
- Spell correctly in the era of text messages and tweets
- Learn homophones, prefixes, and suffixes as aids to correct spelling
- Test your learning progress with "Brain Ticklers"

Contents:

Introduction
- Why Learning to Spell Is Important
- How English Spelling Was Shaped by History

Part One: How to Spell Properly in All Times and Seasons

Chapter 1: Spelling in the 21st Century
- Dictionary Differences
- Spelling for Different Purposes
- Dialects: Different Version of Languge
- Registers: Formal and Informal Language
- Genres: Different Types of Writing

Part Two: American English Spelling

Chapter 2: Overview of English Spelling
- English Spelling: The Basics
- English Spelling Patterns Overview

Chapter 3: "Let's Start at the Very Beginning"
- Three-Letter Words: "A Very Good Place to Start"
- More About Consonant Letter Blends and Diagraphs

Chapter 4: Chapter 4:owel Sounds
- Short Vowel Sounds
- Long Vowel Sounds

Chapter 5: More Challenging Spelling Patterns
- Miscellaneous Vowel Sounds
- "Silent" Leters

Part Three: Syllable Junctures

Chapter 6: Compound Words and Shortened Words
- Compound Words
- Abbreviations
- Contractions

Chapter 7: Affixes: Prefixes and Suffixes
- Syllable Junctures with Prefixes and Suffixes
- Plurals
- Simple Prefixes
- Simple Suffixes

Part Four: Derivational Consistency

Chapter 8: More About Suffixes
- Changes in Sounds
- Same Sound, Different Look

Chapter 9: Confusing Words
- Homographs, Homophones, and Homonyms

Chapter 10: Greek and Latin Base Words
- Base Word Families

Chapter 11: Predictable Spelling Changes
- Accomodations: Now You See It, Now You Don't
- Assimilation Investigation-Meet the Chameleons

Index 

284 pages

Printed in USA