How can teachers help children learn how to spell better?

For improvement of spellings:

Once our teacher asked a simple question to our class one by one:

"What do you want to become in future"

He then made it complicated by striking with a counter question of "spell it"

e.g., if a student said that he wats to become Doctor, Mr. Muhammad Ali (the Teacher) asked "Spell the word Doctor'"

I was poor at spellings so, I tried to get rid of this question by just replying that I want to become Teacher.

Amazingly, the teacher appreciated but on very next moment I was surprised to hear the question.

That was "Go and write the spellings of Professor "

That was a difficult task for me.

At that time I started to learn spellings and if at that time there were a compitition of Spelling Bee, I might have got first in that as I prepared my own tricks and tips for memorising (Ame: memorizing).

1: take a deep look at vowels

2: whenever a word starts with letter Q, it must be followed by letter U and letter U will be followed by another vowel.

3: Letter G must have a vowel followed or following, except when it is at the end of a word.

4: Same is with letter R

5: None of the word can be completed without using vowel or letter Y or letter H, if it has more than three Characters.

6: There are only rare cases where you will find words without vowels (they will be at most three letters long + mystry and rythm)

7: Use breaking apart technique

e.g., Capacity, teach children to break it into capa and city, Altogether into Al-to-get-get-her

Note: this is for memorizing spellings not for pronunciation.

8: While creating plurals teach the students about rules rather than memorizing plural of each word

e.g., for all words which end with ch, th, x, s add es to make them plural

for all words ending with letter F following a vowel add ES

for all words ending with letter E having letter F before letter E remove both letters and put VES.

for more details about my own findings contact me.

Source: Own findings (you might be familier with some of them)

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