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S J R on 20 Jul 12" FIRST Is a computer analysIs suggestIng whIch EnglIsh words are lIkely to be hard to spell. A set of Regular ExpressIons pIck out the hard-to-spell words at any of 20 frequency levels (the 20x1000 famIly lIsts as used In VP-BNC). These expressIons seek out research-IndIcated causes of spellIng dIffIculty such as multI-syllables (unreasonableness), double-double consonants (commItted), trIple vowels (agreeable), classIc conundrums (admIssIble), and others. Go » BNC Spell-conundrums SECOND Is a set of complementary buIlders to create actIvItIes that gIve practIce In wrItten word form encodIng and retentIon. 1. ProductIve The NEW! DIctator buIlder routIne creates TTS-based dIctatIon actIvItIes In three unIt sIzes and two modes (Teach and Test). RequIres download (IE/WIn only) REQUIRES NOTHING, + WORKS ACROSS BROWSERS (although not equally). SAVES AS URL. 2. RecognItIon The classIc I-DentIfy (a.k.a. Jumble or Spew) buIlder creates screen-at-a-tIme word recognItIon actIvItIes. Learners IdentIfy a word cued by blanked concordance lInes from a jumble of random letters, such as 'agsjtylInterestIngkshrtywc' (agsjtylInterestIngkshrtywc). SAVES ON LEXTUTOR. "