A site for spellers, teachers of spelling and reading, and students of english words
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D. W. Cummings, a site for spellers, teachers of spelling and reading, and students of english words
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D. W. Cummings

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 Questions and Answers
 Elements and Procedures
 Spelling for Learning
 The Basic Speller
 The Lexis Database
 The CommonWords Database
 American English Spelling
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Welcome

We hope to answer your questions about the spelling and reading of English—especially, questions about why English written words are put together the way they are. The paragraphs below direct you to the site's various branches.

  • Questions and Answers
    provides a bulletin board where you can ask questions about why English words are spelled the way they are, share comments and teaching tips, and ask for or offer solutions to teaching and learning problems.
      
  • Elements and Procedures
    is an inductive spelling text that was developed for college remedial spelling classes and has been used with students as young as middle school.
      
  • Spelling for Learning
    is a spelling reference book (with exercises) for language arts and English teachers and other people with a more than passing interest in why English words are spelled as they are.
     
  • The Basic Speller
    is an inductive spelling program for elementary and middle school students, consisting of eight books of 48 short lessons each.
     
  • Short Articles
    provides free access to short articles dealing with various aspects of English word study.
  • The Lexis Database
    is a free resource for teachers, interested spellers, and scholars of English words in which 129,000 words are analyzed into their prefixes, bases, suffixes, and procedures.
     
  • American English Spelling
    is my study of English spelling, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1988.
     
  • The CommonWords Database
    is intended to help Language Arts and English teachers compile specialized word lists for classes in spelling, reading, vocabulary, and grammar. It consists of three data tables: (i) CommonWords, a list of 6200+ high frequency words, (ii) SSCorrespondences, a list of the 300+ sound-to-spelling correspondences found in those 6200+ words, (iii) Themes, a list of 71 themes, or topics, for which 4800+ of the words in the CommonWords table have been tagged.
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