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All kinds of things about English spelling. For teachers, learners and anyone just interested. Offers a fresh view on spelling - accepted practices and 'rules' are questioned and explored. New ideas for teaching spelling.

The second edition of Support for Spelling offers support for teachers wanting their pupils to become fluent and effective writers; accurate spelling is a means to that end. Competent spellers need to spend less time and energy in thinking about spelling to enable them to channel their time and energy into the skills of composition, sentence structure and precise word choice.

Kids have made videos to help others spell. Lovely!

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.

All sorts of great stuff about spelling from Vivian Cook.

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

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.

Be warned - this is compulsive! Test your spelling. All sorts of new features, eg it notes the mistakes you make and makes a special spelling bee up for you - just with your mistaken words in it.

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

Brilliant for seeing the origin of words and discovering why they are spelled as they are.

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.

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

Invaluable for finding words that contain, begin with or end with a certain spelling pattern. Really user-friendly. Don't know where I'd be without it.

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

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)

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

Comprehensive list from Wikipedia.

Learn Homophones through the use of email and a workbook.

Some different types of spelling activities here. All with a focus on learning rather than just being tested. For example, students learn to look for words within words, or practice spelling with a Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check program.