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1. Use strategies to help you spell.

Study your words.

• Read the word aloud. (unspeakable)
• Write it syllable by syllable. (un/speak/a/ble)
• Look for “meaning units” such as prefixes (un), roots (speak), and suffixes (able).
• Study how the vowels are spelled. (The long e sound in speak is spelled “ea.”)
• Speak and write the word from memory.
• Check the spelling. Try again, if needed.

Use a saying.

• A friend sticks with you to the end. (This saying helps you remember that the e goes after the i in the word friend.)

Think of similar words.

• two twin twenty       tow toward