Fifteen words that students often get wrong in American English, such as practice, license, traveled and jewelry. Your child learns the rule or memory trick behind each tricky spelling, then practices with writing, gap-fill sentences, their own sentences and a parent-read test.
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Completed: Spelling List 5: Commonly Misspelled Words
6th Grade students (typically ages 11–12) working on spelling lists. It is pitched at level 3 · challenge.
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About 20 minutes for 51 questions. Short, regular sessions work best: two or three a week beats one long one.
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Work through the four parts in order. Say each word out loud as you write it.
These words are often misspelled. In American English, practice and license are spelled the same whether they are nouns or verbs (soccer practice; I practice every day). Defense and offense end in -se, and gray is spelled with an a. Words like travel, cancel and label keep one l when you add -ed (traveled, canceled, labeled). Jewelry has three syllables (jew-el-ry), judgment has no e after the g, and skillful and enroll keep a double l. Write each word three times and circle the tricky part.
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