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Product Description: Standardized tests and job interviews; civil service, high-school exit, and college entrance exams-these are just a few instances where vocabulary and spelling skills play a crucial role in your success. Standardized tests and job interviews; civil service, high-school exit, and college entrance exams-these are just a few instances where vocabulary and spelling skills play a crucial role in your success...read more
By Learningexpress (editor)
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9781576856833 | 5 pap/psc edition (Learning Express Llc, May 1, 2009), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Standardized tests and job interviews; civil service, high-school exit, and college entrance exams-these are just a few instances where vocabulary and spelling skills play a crucial role in your success.

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Product Description: Even today, in the age of texting shortcuts and spell-check dependence, good spelling skills are essential-on important tests, at work, or in life. Express Review Guides: Spelling puts you on the smart and speedy path to spelling like a pro, with hundreds of activities, brainstorming ideas, notes, trivia, key definitions, and tips for avoiding spelling pitfalls...read more
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9781576856512, titled "Spelling: Spelling" | Stg edition (Learning Express Llc, September 1, 2008), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Even today, in the age of texting shortcuts and spell-check dependence, good spelling skills are essential-on important tests, at work, or in life.

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A lively look at the evolution of modern-day English spelling traces the history of the English language from ancient Celtic runes to the present day and reveals why so many English words appear to be spelled in an irrational, chaotic, and illogical way. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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9780385340847 | Delta, May 1, 2007, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A look at the evolution of English spelling traces the history of the English language from ancient Celtic runes to the present day and reveals why so many English words appear to be spelled in an irrational, chaotic, and illogical way.

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Product Description: Words Their Way with English Learners helps teachers determine what their students bring with them from their home languages, where their instruction in English orthography should begin, and how best to move these students through their literacy development...read more
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9780131915671 | Prentice Hall, January 30, 2007, cover price $45.99 | About this edition: Words Their Way with English Learners helps teachers determine what their students bring with them from their home languages, where their instruction in English orthography should begin, and how best to move these students through their literacy development.

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Presents a dictionary of commonly misspelled words that includes correctly spelled words--written in black--and common misspellings--written in red and with the correct spellings following--arranged together alphabetically.
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9789812469816 | Berlitz, October 15, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Presents a dictionary of commonly misspelled words that includes correctly spelled words--written in black--and common misspellings--written in red and with the correct spellings following--arranged together alphabetically.

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Provides a look at the history of spelling and explains why spelling is still important.
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9780071459549 | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill, July 31, 2006), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Provides a look at the history of spelling and explains why spelling is still important.

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Provided for advanced readers and writers, this companion volume provides teachers with prepared reproducible sorts and step-by-step directions to guide students through the sorting lessons.    This companion volume focuses on spelling and vocabulary knowledge that grow primarily through processes of derivation.  Designed for elementary educators' use as part of a reading curriculum where derivational relations is covered.
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9780131146860 | Prentice Hall, June 30, 2005, cover price $16.00
9780131718128 | Prentice Hall, February 9, 2005, cover price $20.60 | About this edition: Provided for advanced readers and writers, this companion volume provides teachers with prepared reproducible sorts and step-by-step directions to guide students through the sorting lessons.

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Product Description:     THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780299191740 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $6.95 | About this edition:     THE STUDY SMART SERIES, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.
9780809255108 | Contemporary Books, September 1, 1983, cover price $8.86 | About this edition: Uses a phonetic approach to learning how to spell, describes common spelling patterns in English, and covers irregular words, Latinate words, and words borrowed from other languages

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Product Description: In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic...read more
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9780801834431 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D.

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9780801879562 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 21, 2004, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D.

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Published at a time when literacy and spelling are issues of topical concern, A Survey of English Spelling offers an authoritative and up-to-date overview of this crucial but often neglected area of the English language.
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9780415092708 | Routledge, January 1, 1994, cover price $183.00 | About this edition: Published at a time when literacy and spelling are issues of topical concern, A Survey of English Spelling offers an authoritative and up-to-date overview of this crucial but often neglected area of the English language.

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9780203199916 | Routledge, September 1, 2003, cover price $175.00

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This practical workbook introduces beginners to the rules and conventions on which contemporary English spelling is based. Clearly written and organized, it is a perfect guide for self study. Topics covered include: how speech-sounds map onto each other; the extent to which words sound identical or look identical; various kinds of spelling mistakes; the main differences between American and British spelling; how and why proper names may vary from expected spelling conventions; punctuation of words by apostrophes, hyphens and capitalization; as well as possible approaches to spelling reform. With hands on language analysis and balanced insight into basic linguistic theory, English Spelling offers a solid introduction to this topic. Edward Carney is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester.
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9780415161091 | Routledge, June 1, 1997, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This practical workbook introduces beginners to the rules and conventions on which contemporary English spelling is based.

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9780203138489 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $30.95

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Drawing on the thousands of reponses to the 'Ask Marilyn' spelling survey, the Parade magazine columnist examines what spelling reveals about an individual's personalitiy, native intelligence, education, and desire; traces the history of English spelling; and discusses ways to improve one's own spelling ability. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Joan Reilly (illustrator) and Marilyn Vos Savant
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9780393049039, titled "The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method" | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Examines what spelling reveals about an individual's personality, native intelligence, education, and desire; traces the history of English spelling; and discusses ways to improve one's own spelling ability.
9780756765248 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive, & useful guide for spellers of all abilities, plus a look at what our spelling reveals about our intelligence & our personalities.

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9780393322088, titled "The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method" | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Examines what spelling reveals about an individual's personality, native intelligence, education, and desire; traces the history of English spelling; and discusses ways to improve one's own spelling ability.

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Product Description: Over 7,000 commonly misspelled words plus a bonus section of the 303 dumbest spelling mistakes makes this two great references in one.
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9780517163818 | Gramercy, May 1, 2001, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Over 7,000 commonly misspelled words plus a bonus section of the 303 dumbest spelling mistakes makes this two great references in one.

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Product Description: A study in linguistic variation, this work deals with those much discussed but little researched adverbs which in present-day English sometimes occur with the suffix -'ly' and sometimes not, e.g. 'direct/directly' and 'wrong/wrongly'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780820443997 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: A study in linguistic variation, this work deals with those much discussed but little researched adverbs which in present-day English sometimes occur with the suffix -'ly' and sometimes not, e.
9783631354643 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $150.95

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Lists words phoentically for easy reference, with explanations of some particularly challenging words.
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9780071357364 | McGraw-Hill, May 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Lists words phoentically for easy reference, with explanations of some particularly challenging words.

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Product Description: This resource book is packed with activities for practising common spelling patterns in English. Each unit concentrates on a particular 'sound' or phoneme. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521639712 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This resource book is packed with activities for practising common spelling patterns in English.

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Product Description: This book covers a broad range of topics, from the historical origins of the 26 letters to the regularities and irregularities of spelling in food and drink words, and ending with the rules of spelling. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781572304697 | Guilford Pubn, July 23, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This book covers a broad range of topics, from the historical origins of the 26 letters to the regularities and irregularities of spelling in food and drink words, and ending with the rules of spelling.

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9780872071926 | Intl Reading Assn, November 1, 1998, cover price $23.95

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Thoroughly revised and updated, this handy reference contains the newest English vocabulary words, featuring spellings and preferred hyphenation breaks for more than fifty thousand words and terms, as well as a Guide for Writers, a list of frequently misspelled words, and a table of sound-spelling correspondences. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780375403903 | 2nd edition (Random House Reference &, September 1, 1998), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Lists the correct spelling for more than fifty thousand words, and includes hyphenation breaks

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9780130802552 | Prentice Hall, December 1, 1997, cover price $26.67

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Product Description: This popular book helps eliminate basic spelling problems. Its format enables readers to proceed at their own pace with the aid of diagnostic test and review tests. Motivating and entertaining, it emphasizes drill over theory because it assumes correct spelling must become automatic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780132556217 | 4 sub edition (Prentice Hall, July 1, 1997), cover price $94.40 | About this edition: This popular book helps eliminate basic spelling problems.
9780137286430 | 3 sub edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1991), cover price $37.80 | About this edition: This popular book helps eliminate basic spelling problems.

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Product Description: This edition lists words and phrases (including all plurals and tenses) in alphabetical order. Its 150,000 entry-count includes every word from "The Concise Oxford Dictionary" plus over 30,000 personal, place and company names. It also features glosses that differentiate words and names that sound or are spelled alike, and cross-referenced British and American spellings...read more
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9780198661733 | 2 sub edition (Clarendon Pr, November 1, 1996), cover price $42.01 | About this edition: This edition lists words and phrases (including all plurals and tenses) in alphabetical order.

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An A-to-Z guide is cross-referenced with both correct and incorrect spellings of words and offers guidance on how to avoid common mistakes and communicate more effectively. Original.
By Hayden Mead (editor) and Philip Lief Group (corporate author)
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9780425155240 | Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An A-to-Z guide is cross-referenced with both correct and incorrect spellings of words and offers guidance on how to avoid common mistakes and communicate more effectively.

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9780312094812 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $19.95
9780312094638 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, August 1, 1993), cover price $10.95

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Discusses the importance of good spelling, explaining the general rules of English spelling, and examines some troublesome spelling problems
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9780812091434 | Barrons Educational Series Inc, February 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Discusses the importance of good spelling, explaining the general rules of English spelling, and examines some troublesome spelling problems

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