Customer Reviews

Painless Spelling (Barron's Painless Series)

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Another wonderful addition to the "Painless" series, this little handbook is a must-have for students, parents, and teachers who want to make spelling easier for themselves or others. Let's face it, spelling isn't exactly high-interest learning - but the "Painless" guide truly does make learning easy and nowhere near as boring as the typical spelling books we all endured in school. The examples are fresh and interesting, and the explanations are clear...and best of all, this guide really does make learning/teaching spelling a PAINLESS experience!

To be quite honest, I couldn't imagine spelling has a lot to do with pronunciation before. The author clearly associates each letter pattern with each vowel sound.(e.g./u; o as in woman, ou as in could, oui as in bouillon, u as in bull, oo as in wood) It sounds like a real cliche, but practice makes perfect; you'll get used to it once you get the pattern indicated in this book! The same is also true of prefixes(pre-, post-, re-, dis-, ex-, etc.) and suffixes(-ed, -tion, -er, -or, -ee, etc.). Both will help you strengthen your vocabulary-building if you know what they mean.
Again, practice makes perfect!!

This book is a very good supplement to any grade school course. It is also an excellent aide for adults who have problems with their spelling.

I bought this for several of my employees who have to write what customers say and who never learned the basics in school. They are enjoying learning and using this book, and their skills are improving. Well worth the small price.

This a good book for entry-level students. It contains some interesting information about the history of English language and great charts with common and unusual spellings. The numerous "Brain ticklers" exercises and drawings are a little overwhelming and maybe unnecessary.

Taking the time with my eldest to work on spelling words can be daunting at times, even though I know that it is important, and sometimes my daughter gets frustrated in the process. This book makes the task of working on spelling that much easier. The book was well laid out and made so much sense. My daughter even liked many of the sections that I introduced to her. I particularly liked the "brain ticklers" as these provided a great way to check in on where you stand in your own learning! Overall I have to say that this was a great book and was one that I highly recommend!

it was a very good shopping, the book arrived on time, and exactly as it was on the description, so am glad of getting it

Not what was expected at all. Not a new approach to this subject,was very boring---much remenber this and remenber that stuff--did not like this book--intend to give it to goodwill.