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Comprehensive article about the teaching and learning of English spelling. Special focus on teaching spelling to English language learners (particularly Arabic speaking adults) but useful for all.

The BBC's LSCWC site. Good fun but you can't put in your own words unfortunately.

Great little tool for learning spellings and testing yourself. Look Say Cover Write and Check

Comprehensive list from Wikipedia.

Kids have made videos to help others spell. Lovely!

This is SO useful. Put in the words and it makes the word-shapes for you. It used to take me hours to make these.

All sorts of great stuff about spelling from Vivian Cook.

The BBC ran a spelling bee a few years ago. Some of the training for it was interesting.

Enter a word and the program finds photos from Flickr for each letter. If you don't like a letter, change it.

Brilliant! Gets you started with writing. Set yourself a target - how many words / how many minutes and start writing. If you pause you start to lose words you've already written.

This is one of the best websites for learning to spell. It is one of the few that really teaches rather than just testing.

Lots of word games - some are useful eg code words.

A look at 9 sites that are useful for teaching/learning spelling. There's a video introduction that tells you how and why they are useful.

Free version of Word Magnets. Really useful especially if you have an interactive whiteboard. Lots of different ways of arranging letters into words, categories, order, etc. And of course you can arrange whole words too. (Don't click on the Word Magnets 2 link unless you want the paid-for site licence - but if you do it's a great site to support)

Here are some ways to use Word Magnets (The Word Magnets site is listed elsewhere here)