Publisher Description
Personal Best Spelling is three spelling programs in one, so you can Learn New Words, Test Your Spelling and Correct Bad Spelling Habits.
1. Learn New Words
This helps you learn new words quickly so that you remember them better. It uses a modified form of the widely used and recommended method of learning spelling called Look Say Cover Write Check. Practice or drill is built into the program in a special way to improve your learning and memory.
You can create your own word lists, use the inbuilt lists or use a wide range of ready-made special purpose word lists that you can download from this web site. Ready-made word lists include lists of commonly misspelled words, words that cause special difficulty to adult learners and other useful lists.
You can learn sentence structure using the special contextual learning feature that allows you to enter more than just one word at a time. Foreign language learning is also possible using this feature because you can learn words in their proper context.
You can also learn specialised occupational vocabularies.
2. Spell Tester
You can test your spelling of previously learned words. A special feature is that the program remembers any persistent errors you make. If the error is consistent , i.e., you spell it incorrectly in the same way, the program recognises that you have developed a learned error and it automatically saves these errors in a separate word list for special treatment and correction.
3. Correct Bad Spelling Habits
The program uses a new learning method called Old Way/New Way. With Old Way/New Way you can correct persistent, learned and habitual errors. You can also, once and for all, learn to spell those tricky words that you are uncertain about and often have to look up before you use them.
Homonyms, words like "their" and "there", that sound the same but have different meanings, often create confusion but this can be readily