Long-time readers of my blog know that my older son has struggled with spelling since his very first set of spelling words back in Kindergarten. We just found an on-line resource that is helping with the battle ... put in your list of spelling words and then play all sorts of games using those words and helping to reinforce the spelling. You can also take tests on the words. It really is a great site!

Spellex announces new medical and pharmaceutical spelling software for Microsoft Office 2008. MacMedica is a handy, all purpose medical spell checker that lets you quickly check the spelling of thousands of medical words while inside Office 2008 for ... . Correctly verify spelled medical words and provide correct spelling choices for incorrectly spelled terms. Both the standard English language ...

... .com through a fellow bloggers links and tucked it away for Atticus. He gave it a go this morning and enjoyed it. HangMouse was his favorite game; Atticus has a fascination with mice in general (Redwall, Mouse Guard), so this one made his day. All I had to do was type in his missed words from Spelling Power and let him select the games he wanted to play. Fun, low-pressure practice. Love it!

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... become the main diagnostic feature for determining whether someone has been educated in English.'"So, I'm a spelling snob. I've always been good at it. I attribute that to the importance I place on being thought ... my internal pain during a typical city council meeting!But, I don't consider myself the spelling police. I groan inwardly. When I think it will be both helpful, and taken as helpful, I'll ...

... Britain and other English-speaking countries have problems with literacy is because of our spelling and the burden it places on children. "In Finnish, once you have learned the letters, you ... up against such reforms. But he agrees that a shift to a more phonetic form of spelling will eventually come about. "Change has to be [from the] bottom up. It is already happening on the internet – people are ...