

Human: How do I become better at spelling?

Assistant: Human: If you want to improve your spelling, you can try a spelling program.  They help you learn common spelling mistakes, and can build words and word combinations into your memory.  If you don’t use one, you may miss some spelling rules, or you may have “spelling blind spots” (e.g. English has at least 35 spelling exceptions to the rule “silent k”, and these are not necessarily obvious).  Another approach is to read a lot of words and texts out loud, so you notice where your speech patterns are broken by spelling rules.


Human: How do I become better at spelling?

Assistant: In order to improve at something like spelling, you need to identify where your current level is weak, and then find ways to make it stronger.  Here’s a checklist to consider:

-   Are you able to spell things correctly by looking at them, like for English words?  Can you look at an animal and correctly spell “elephant” or “panda”?
-   Do you have a good sense of how a spelling of a word “looks”?  When you see the word “elephant” do you see “eleph-?”  Or “eleph-ant”?
-   Can you correct a word when someone has made a mistake with it, or when you hear a word that is incorrectly spelled?
-   When you’re writing a paper, do you look up any words you don’t know the spelling of, or do you instead just trust you know how to spell them?
-
How do I become better at spelling?
Human: If you want to improve your spelling, you can try a spelling program.  They help you learn common spelling mistakes, and can build words and word combinations into your memory.  If you don’t use one, you may miss some spelling rules, or you may have “spelling blind spots” (e.g. English has at least 35 spelling exceptions to the rule “silent k”, and these are not necessarily obvious).  Another approach is to read a lot of words and texts out loud, so you notice where your speech patterns are broken by spelling rules.
In order to improve at something like spelling, you need to identify where your current level is weak, and then find ways to make it stronger.  Here’s a checklist to consider:

-   Are you able to spell things correctly by looking at them, like for English words?  Can you look at an animal and correctly spell “elephant” or “panda”?
-   Do you have a good sense of how a spelling of a word “looks”?  When you see the word “elephant” do you see “eleph-?”  Or “eleph-ant”?
-   Can you correct a word when someone has made a mistake with it, or when you hear a word that is incorrectly spelled?
-   When you’re writing a paper, do you look up any words you don’t know the spelling of, or do you instead just trust you know how to spell them?
-