Speaking correctly in English is tougher than it is in most other languages--mainly because so many spelling rules have exceptions. Even so, mastering correct spelling is a fundamental part of education--and here's a book that makes correct spelling painless. Although designed mainly for middle-school students, Painless Spelling can benefit just about anybody who needs to improve spelling skills. Twenty-six easy-to-read chapters begin with a history of English, then go on to analyze sound patterns, diphthongs, homophones, plural endings, compound words, prefixes and suffixes added to base words, and much more. Grasp these ideas about words, and chances are that you'll understand how to spell the words as well. Students are shown how to recognize differences among word endings, for instance, between ion/ian , able/ible or ance/ence. When they reach the final chapter, their spelling skills will be improved many times over--and they'll discover that they had fun getting there!
I am an inventor who works mainly in words, but also in sound and images.
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Always trying to bring something new and unique to my work, I have made many different things, including 11 books, the libretto for the opera "Kiravanu" (music by James Humberstone) that premiered in Sydney in September, 2008; a setting of an excerpted version of W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio" for choir, soloists, brass quintet, and harp; the nearly 1700 international worksheets for the Sibelius Notation Software Worksheet Creator, based on the music curricula of the US, UK, AU, NZ, and Canada; and a collage interpretations of portions of Gabriela Mistral's "Decalogo del artista."
