The Dictionary of Perfect Spelling holds over 20,000 entries designed to help both children and adults improve their spelling. Accessible to even the most reluctant speller, each page is divided in half with two columns. Correctly spelt words are printed in black and wrong spellings are printed in red. The misspellings are mainly phonetic, but also include common incorrect attempts which may be attributed to mispronunciation, visual confusion, or just plain forgetfulness. For example, ‘knee’ can be found by its sound under the letter ‘n.’ Additional information on the word can then be found under its correct alphabetical order. At the bottom of each page is more information on spelling rules and suffixes and compounds. Spellings include National Curriculum words as well as vocabulary for the workplace, and is a valuable resource for people who have problems with visual spelling. Paramount for both primary and secondary schools, this book will support pupils with learning difficulties and pupils who sound out words using phonetics.

Highly recommended.

2007-12-13