1 Simple Method to Improve Your Spelling - How to Write Correctly & Avoid Spelling Mistakes

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Do you make lots of spelling mistakes?
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Do you have difficulty remembering the correct spellings of words?
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Well, in this lesson, I’m going to teach you an easy, three-step method to improve
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your spelling and write correctly without making mistakes.
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So let’s talk about that.
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OK, the first step of this exercise is to find your spelling mistakes.
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You do this by checking your own writing.
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If you are a student, then I’m sure you write a lot.
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If you work, you might write emails or reports.
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So, at least once per week, take your writing, and try to find spelling mistakes that you
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have made.
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Now, I know that this can be difficult – you don’t know what mistakes you’re making.
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So there are two great ways to know your mistakes – the first is to ask someone else to read
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your work and underline or circle any errors (and also give you the correct spellings).
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The second option is to take your writing and type it (or copy/paste it) into Microsoft
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Word.
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The software will then underline your spelling mistakes for you and give you the corrections.
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This way, you can identify your own errors.
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OK, let’s do an exercise to understand this process: Here’s a short text that I wrote
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– there are five spelling errors in it.
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Stop the video, try to find the mistakes, then play the video again and check.
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OK, here are the answers: ‘a lot’ should be spelled with a space.
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‘Definitely’ has no ‘a’ – it should be an ‘i’.
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‘Received’ is written with ‘ei’ not ‘ie’.
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‘Rhythm’ needs to have an ‘h’ after ‘r’.
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And ‘schedule’ needs to start with ‘sch’.
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OK, did you find them all?
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Alright, so like this, you identify the words that you are spelling incorrectly and learn
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their correct spellings.
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And now comes the important part – record the correct spellings of these words.
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That means, you should note down the correct spellings of all the words you spelled wrongly
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in a notebook or in a file on your computer.
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You should write the spellings on one side of the page, and on the other, you should
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write the phonetic transcription – that is, the same word in pronunciation symbols
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– this will allow you to see the difference between the spelling and the pronunciation,
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and you will also be able to test yourself later.
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Now, I know that you don’t know all of these symbols, that’s OK – they’re very easy,
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you can find them by looking up each word in a dictionary.
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So just like I have done here, you should take all of the words – note down the correct
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spellings, and also note down the phonetic transcription.
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Finally, the last step is review the spellings regularly.
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You do this so that you don’t forget the correct spellings.
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Make one day of the week your spelling improvement day (maybe Saturday or Sunday).
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On this day, test yourself on the spellings.
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To do this, open your notebook and hide the spellings.
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Only look at the pronunciation symbols.
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Now, can you give me the correct spellings of these words that we just learned?
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Stop the video, try to write down the correct spellings, then play the video again and check.
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OK, here they are.
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Did you get them all right?
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So, you should do this for your own spellings that you write down.
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By testing yourself, you will remember the correct spellings and you will not make the
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same mistakes again.
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You should do these three steps regularly – find your mistakes, record the correct
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spellings, and test yourself regularly.
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As you do this, you will start to collect more and more words.
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This means that your mistakes will reduce, and eventually, you will be able to write
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without making spelling errors.
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