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2. Inventive spelling - Wikipedia

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   Inventive spelling (sometimes invented spelling) is the use of unconventional spellings of words.. Conventional written English is not phonetic (that is, it is not written as it sounds, due to the history of its spelling, which led to outdated, unintuitive, misleading or arbitrary spelling conventions and spellings of individual words) unlike, for example, German or Spanish, where letters have ...

3. Spelling Jungle - Wikipedia

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   Spelling Jungle, also known as Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks [2] or Yobi's Magic Spelling Tricks, [3] is an educational adventure game created by Bright Star Technology [nb 1] and released by Sierra in 1993 for both Windows and Macintosh PCs. [5] The program is designed to strengthen reading, spelling, and logic skills in children ages 7–10. [6]

4. Phonics - Wikipedia

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   Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

5. National Spelling Bee approves feminist term, 'womyn,' in ...

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   The Scripps National Spelling Bee has drawn attention after its approved list of study words for third-graders looking to compete in the upcoming spelling competition was shared online. Study ...

6. Initial Teaching Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   The I.T.A. originally had 43 symbols, which was expanded to 44, then 45. Each symbol predominantly represented a single English sound (including affricates and diphthongs), but there were complications due to the desire to avoid making the I.T.A. needlessly different from standard English spelling (which would make the transition from the I.T.A. to standard spelling more difficult), and in ...

7. Thomas Dilworth - Wikipedia

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   Noah Webster as a boy studied Dilworth's book, and was inspired partly by it to create his own spelling book on completely different principles, using pictures and stories of interest to children. By some accounts Dilworth was one of the few schoolbooks used by Abraham Lincoln .