Spelling is a very important part of ESL so there are 63 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.
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.
Words That Rhyme With 'Cat'
This English worksheet focuses on rhyming words. Ss must look at the words in the boxes. All of the words that rhyme with cat must be coloured green. The rest of the words must be coloured red. Ss ...
Number Basics
Count and Spell English Numerals 1-10 With this PowerPoint presentation you can learn, teach or review cardinal numbers. Each slide in the presentation includes a number timeline. This presentat ...
English Is Fun!
This PPT contains several word and vocabulary games. It can be used at back-to-school lessons or occasionally for classroom entertainment. Some teachers may use it to test some aspects of English ...
Spelling Mnemonics PPT
A mnemonic is something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something. In this ppt, I have put together some mnemonics to help students remember the spellin ...
Homophones
This worksheet contains four different exercises on two pages. Most of them can be done in pairs. The lesson plan, including the lead-in and follow-up activity, is on page three (it is only my sug ...
Listening Puzzle: I Will Love Again
A listening puzzle on the song "I will love again", by Lara Fabian. The students will listen to the song and complete the space (a space for each letter). Each time they listen to the song and wri ...
Natural Disasters
This worksheet consists of two exercises: a crossword puzzle and a gap-fill exercise. It can be used for practising or revising the vocabulary related to natural disasters. It is fun and you can c ...
S and Z Sound Words
This worksheet is used to introduce students to the sounds S and Z. I used a video from YouTube so they could hear the sounds and then used my worksheet. The SS match the pictures to the words and ...
October: Scary Month, Scary Things
It is fun worksheet for teachers and students to teach and learn about Halloween and scary things. Grammar topics are there's, there're, and prepositions of place. Students are required to write t ...
Yo-Yee Shape Worksheet / Pictionary
Shape Flashcards / Pictionary for young students. You can hand out this worksheet as a Pictionary / Vocabulary List. Also students can circle the correct answer of the shapes. Skills: Shape vocabu ...
Toys Crossword
This fun, colourful crossword is for young beginners has picture clues for the words ball, bike, car, computer, doll, plane, puppet, robot, teddy and train (the vocab used in Incredible English Le ...
Video Worksheet: The Gruffalo's Child
I made this using the excellent BBC animation which looks at verb usage, prepositions and spelling. The participants watch the film while completing the exercises. The teacher can pause it between ...
Pronunciation Cards
Colour illustrated cut-out cards of nouns that rhyme but are not spelled as if they will rhyme. 24 cards on two pages, 3rd page for instructions. Print out also very effective in black and white ...
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