What you'll learn
- Relate speech sounds to spelling.
- Learn how sounds, letter patterns, rules and history are all connected and how they influence spelling.
- Understand how short and long vowel sounds influence spelling.
- Discover the 44 sounds of English and their letter patterns.
- Learn hard and soft consonant sounds and their rules and patterns.
- Understand why certain letter patterns (want, walk, work) are pronounced "strangely"
- Know the history of spelling and speaking and why it's not phonetic.
- Improve reading by learning letter patterns, which is a proven way to improve reading.
Requirements
- Be able to speak, read and write English at a very good level.
Description
From the creator of Udemy's best-selling Spelling Rules: to improve spelling & confidence course, comes the perfect follow-on course - Spelling Sounds and Patterns: To improve spelling, reading & pronunciation to give you even more spelling knowledge and confidence to spell, read and write.
You'll learn how sounds, letter patterns, history, structure of words, and rules are all connected and influence the spelling of words.
Learning how speech sounds connect to spelling is one of the foundation blocks of learning to spell. Learning to spell well isn't about using one method. It's a complex subject that needs various methods and approaches to learn it well.
This course will help you
Relate sounds to spelling.
Know how sounds, letter patterns, rules and history are all connected and influence spelling.
Understand long and short vowel sounds and how they influence spelling.
Identify and spell common letter patterns.
Know the relationship between spelling rules, letter patterns and sounds.
Learn important vowel patterns (-ea-, -au-, -ui- -ie- and -ei-) and their sounds.
Learn how consonants like the letter c and g can have hard and soft sounds, and the rules and history around these.
Learn why certain letters like the W in warn, world, swab, squad are pronounced the way they are.
Understand what Standard English is.
Know that your accent is your soul and identity and shouldn't be changed, but knowing a standardised way of saying things can help spelling.
Improve reading by learning letter patterns, which is a proven way to improve reading.
Who this course is for:
- This course is ideal for British and American English native speakers, and ESL students.
- A good level of English for non-native speakers.
Course content
- Preview03:42
- Preview09:04
- Preview06:58
- Preview04:44
- Preview02:42
- 07:29Standard English, accents, RP
- 11:12American vs. British Spelling
Instructor
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- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 494 Reviews
- 2,551 Students
- 3 Courses
Joanne Rudling has over 20 years' experience teaching spelling, English, literacy, EFL and writing. She's the owner of a spelling website for adults (howtospell) where she develops online courses, and writes books, which are available on Amazon and her website.
She's worked in various organisations in the UK including City of Westminster College, Bournemouth & Poole College, and Bournemouth Film School.
She has developed and taught on literacy projects for the Pre-Volunteer Programme for the Olympics, and the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind.) And delivered seminars, training courses and CPD (Continued Profession Development) sessions for teachers and lecturers on literacy and spelling.
She's also worked with Amazon drama division editing their American closed captions/subtitles to British spellings.