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Spelling is a very important part of ESL so there are 39 spelling worksheets posted here for you to use if your students need more spelling practice. There are also a number of PowerPoint presentations to help introduce, teach, and practice spelling. This is one such presentation and goes along with this spelling worksheet. You can use these two files in classes of pre-intermediate and intermediate learners to help them focus on spelling –ed words. If that is not quite what you are looking for, consider another free, printable worksheet to assist your students with spelling the words they are struggling with.
While the majority of ESL lessons should focus on oral communication, writing and spelling are also important aspects of language learning. Students may have great speaking skills but if business students send clients emails riddled with spelling errors, they are going to appear either careless or uneducated, both of which paint them in a negative light. Practice spelling with your students as part of vocabulary lessons. When introducing new vocabulary, be sure to teach not just its pronunciation and meaning but also spelling. Students will be able to practice spelling when completing writing exercises so tell students to pay special attention to it and assign a certain number of points to spelling when doing your grading.
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What Is Spelling?
Spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of naming the letters. In the sense of a standard, spelling is one of the elements of orthography and a prescriptive element of alphabetic languages. Spellings attempt to transcribe the sounds of the language into alphabetic letters, but phonetic spellings are exceptions in many languages due to several reasons. Pronunciation changes over time in all languages, and spelling reforms are irregular in most languages and rare in some. In addition, words from other languages may be adopted without being adapted to the spelling system, non-standard spellings are often adopted after extensive common usage, and different meanings of a word or homophones may be deliberately spelled in different ways to differentiate them visually.
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Cat Word Maze Cat Word MazeStart at the word “cat” in the top row and find your way to the word “food”. You can move up, down, left or right, and each word you move to must share a letter with the wo ...
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Elementary
 
Syllabication Rules Syllabication Rules19 rules: explanation of how to separate words into syllables. Intermediate and advanced levels. Really helpful fo those who are teaching how to separate words in syllables in English. Including e ...
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rated by 3 teachers

Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Scrabble Game Board Scrabble Game BoardSCRABBLE is a really good game, I hope your students enjoy it!What you need to know about this game is:1: using the letters students make a word.2: they have to count the total of points they get ...
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rated by 2 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
The Old Scrabble Board Game The Old Scrabble Board GameThis is a printable version of the old favorite Scrabble word game, for those of us who might have no access to a Scrabble game otherwise. This game is a fun way to practice spelling, math, vocabu ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Short A Words: Memory Flashcards Short A Words: Memory FlashcardsThis set of cards is designed to help students practice or review words with the "short a" sound. Printed double-sided, the cards can be used as flashcards; printed on two separate sheets, they c ...
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rated by 2 teachers

Complete Beginner Elementary
 
Cardinal Numbers Spelling Game Cardinal Numbers Spelling GameThis is fully animated spelling game with audio for very young students on cardinal numbers.Students are asked to listen to the word then click on the correct letters to spell the number correctly.
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rated by 5 teachers

Complete Beginner Elementary
 
Media Matters Word Search Media Matters Word SearchThis word search puzzle includes TV and press vocabulary, hope you find it useful!List of words used in this word search: BAN, COMMUNAL, HEADLINE, TABLOID, COLUMNIST, ADVERTISEMENT, CORRESPONDENT, ...
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rated by 3 teachers

Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Shapes Worksheet Shapes WorksheetThis worksheet is very useful for beginners to practice the given topic. You can ask your students to write the construction "this is a ..then about the shapes attributes. It is a great practice. ...
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rated by 7 teachers

Elementary
 
Number Words to Spell Number Words to SpellThis worksheet is called 'Number Words to Spell' and it is also available for free at http://www.lauracandler.com/. This compact one-pager conveniently lists all numerals 1-20, 30-100, as well as ...
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rated by 10 teachers

Complete Beginner Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Spelling Patterns Diagnostic Assessment Spelling Patterns Diagnostic AssessmentThis comprehensive spelling patterns assessment includes all of the K-3 spelling patterns and a recording matrix for simple progress monitoring. Unlike qualitative spelling inventories, which use ...
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rated by 5 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Outlaw Words Spelling Assessment Outlaw Words Spelling AssessmentStudents need to not only be able to read the high frequency Outlaw Words (sight words); they also need to be able to spell these phonetically irregular words. The Outlaw Words Spelling Assessment ...
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rated by 3 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Food Spelling Worksheet Food Spelling WorksheetThis is a Spelling Challenge activity on food vocabulary. For each picture a number of similar words is provided, but only one is spelled correctly and matches the picture. Students must circle th ...
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rated by 14 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Alphabet Poster Alphabet PosterA funny alphabet for 4 - 7 year olds. It can be used as flashcards and you can teach pronunciation with any of the typical songs of the alphabet. It can be used as a poster for th ...
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rated by 17 teachers

Complete Beginner
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