Spelling Sounds and Patterns

To improve spelling, reading & pronunciation

From the creator of Udemy's best-selling Spelling Rules: to improve spelling & confidence course, comes the perfect follow-on course - Spelling Sounds and Patterns: To improve spelling, reading & pronunciation to give you even more spelling knowledge and confidence to spell, read and write.

You'll learn how sounds, letter patterns, history, structure of words, and rules are all connected and influence the spelling of words.

Learning how speech sounds connect to spelling is one of the foundation blocks of learning to spell. Learning to spell well isn't about using one method. It's a complex subject that needs various methods and approaches to learn it well.

This course will help you

• Relate sounds to spelling.

• Know how sounds, letter patterns, rules and history are all connected and influence spelling.

• Understand long and short vowel sounds and how they influence spelling.

• Identify and spell common letter patterns. 

• Know the relationship between spelling rules, letter patterns and sounds.

• Learn important vowel patterns (-ea-, -au-, -ui- -ie- and -ei-) and their sounds.

• Learn how consonants like the letter c and g can have hard and soft sounds, and the rules and history around these.

• Learn why certain letters like the W in warn, world, swab, squad are pronounced the way they are.

• Understand what Standard English is.

• Know that your accent is your soul and identity and shouldn't be changed, but knowing a standardised way of saying things can help spelling.

• Improve reading by learning letter patterns, which is a proven way to improve reading.