ICANSPELL LEVEL 3
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Level 3 of ICANSPELL contains 48 lessons

I have listed the major concepts for each lesson below. You can purchase ICANSPELL Level 3 in either paper or e-mailed PDF form.

• ICANSPELL Level 3

1. Dictation Pad 3-01 to 3-08
• Lesson 01
• The sound of short e made two ways
• The consonant teams th, ck and sh
• The definition of syllables
• Emphasized syllables
• SeeLesson 3-01
• Lesson 02
• The sound of er spelled er, or and ur
• Stressed syllables
• Two ways to stress the word "perfect"
• Lesson 03
• The letter u making its short sound
• The letter u followed by r or l
• The root of a word
• Two ways to stress the words "suspect" and "adult"
• Lesson 04
• The sound of long o made three ways
• Hyphenating between syllables
• Syllables usually, but not always, match stressed portions of words
• Lesson 05
• The sound of long u made several ways
• The sound of long u made by o (lose)
• Two ways to stress the word "refuse"
• Lesson 06
• The consonant team th voiced
• The consonant team th unvoiced
• The consonant team th teamed with r and w
• Lesson 07
• The consonant team ch as in lunch
• The consonant team ch as in school
• Lesson 08
• Abbreviations
• Casual speech vs formal speech
2. Dictation Pad 3-09 to 3-16
• Lesson 09
• The suffix le
• Doubled consonants keeping the vowel short before le
• Lesson 10
• The sound of er spelled er, or and ar
• The unstressed sound is called schwa in the dictionary
• Lesson 11
• The suffix y sounding like long e
• The letter y as part of a longer suffix (ary, ory)
• Two ways to stress the word "contrary"
• Lesson 12
• The suffix y sounding like long e
• Do not hyphenate before y at the end of word
• Lesson 13
• The suffixes s and es make words plural
• The e in the suffix s often must be pronounced (dishes)
• The consonant blend sound of ks is made by the letter x
• The letter x is not doubled to protect short vowels
• Lesson 14
• Pluralizing words that end in y (sixty/sixties)
• Making plural words into singular words (sixties/sixty)
• Pluralizing words that end in o (tomato/tomatoes)
• Lesson 15
• The suffix ly can turn words into adverbs and adjectives
• Formula for adding ly to words ending in y (angry/angrily)
• Formula for adding ly to words ending in e (cuddle/cuddly)
• Lesson 16
• Adverbs ending in the suffix ly
• Adding the suffix ly to words ending in e (rude/rudely)
• Stress doesn't always match syllables
3. Dictation Pad 3-17 to 3-24
• Lesson 17
• Compound words
• Root words
• Two ways to stress the word "downstairs"
• Lesson 18
• Tricky one-syllable words (cold, watch, talk)
• The letter w changes the sound made by a or o within a syllable
• The consonant team tch
• Lesson 19
• The suffix ed making words past tense
• In most words the e in ed is silent (banged), but in some it must be pronounced (landed)
• Voiced and unvoiced sounds affect the pronunciation of the suffix ed
• Lesson 20
• Measurement abbreviations
• Miscellaneous abbreviations
• Lesson 21
• The sound of or (for) spelled several ways (horse, pour, door)
• Lesson 22
• Past tense words
• Formula for changing words that end in e (adore) into past tense words (adored)
• Sometimes you hear the e in ed (completed)
• Sometimes ed sounds like t (spruced)
• Lesson 23
• The suffixes less and ness
• Lesson 24
• Time abbreviations
• The sound of long e made by ee, ie, and ey
4. Dictation Pad 3-25 to 3-32
• Lesson 25
• The sounds of el (tell) spelled le, el, and il
• Emphasis is sometimes shown in books with capital letters (moTEL)
• Lesson 26
• Formulas for adding the suffix ed:
1. Just do it (fail/failed)
2. Drop final e and add ed (wave/waved)
3. Double the final consonant and add ed (beg/begged)
• Sometimes you hear d and sometimes you hear t at the end of past tense words
• Lesson 27
• Formulas for adding the suffix ing:
1. Just do it (keep/keeping)
2. Double the final consonant and add ing (hit/hitting)
• Changing an ing word back to its root (keeping/keep and hitting/hit)
• Lesson 28
• The letter g making its soft sound (j)
• The consonant team dge
• Two ways to spell "judgment"
• Lesson 29
• The letter c making its soft sound (s)
• The letter c making its hard sound (k)
• Lesson 30
• Adding the suffix ing to a word that ended with e (hike/hiking)
• Returning an ing word to its root (hiking/hike)
• Lesson 31
• Adding the suffix ed to a short vowel word (hop/hopped)
• Adding the suffix ed to a long vowel word (hope/hoped)
• Lesson 32
• The letter v is never alone at the end of a word
• Pluralizing words that end in f
• Pronouncing the letter team wh
• The vowel team igh
• The consonant team gh
5. Dictation Pad 3-33 to 3-40
• Lesson 33
• Compound words
• Emphasizing part of a compound word
• Two ways to pronounce the word "extraordinary"
• Lesson 34
• Prefixes pre, un, dis, non and mis
• Lesson 35
• The suffixes ion and s
• The sound of t + ion
• The sound of s + ion
• Lesson 36
• The suffixes al, able, and ible
• The letter c added to the suffix ial (special)
• Lesson 37
• The suffix ate
• Lesson 38
• Comparatives and superlatives (busy, busier, busiest)
• Formulas for changing words that end in y (busy) and e (simple)
• Formulas for changing simple words (+er, +est)
• Lesson 39
• The suffixes ment, ant, and ion
• Lesson 40
• Wierd words (glove, sew, women)
• Two ways to pronounce the words "dove" and "live"
6. Dictation Pad 3-41 to 3-48
• Lesson 41
• The letter c making its hard sound (k)
• Two ways to pronounce the word "subject"
• Lesson 42
• The letter a pronounced almost long (carrot)
• The letter a unstressed, symbolized by schwa in the dictionary
• Lesson 43
• The consonant team wh
• The consonant team wr
• Lesson 44
• The letter c making its soft sound (s)
• The letter c making its hard sound (k)
• Two ways to pronounce the word "entrance"
• Lesson 45
• Homophones (throne/thrown)
• Lesson 46
• Formulas for adding the suffix ing:
1. Just do it (boil/boiling)
2. Double the final consonant and add ing (stop/stopping)
3. Drop the e and add ing (change/changing)
• Lesson 47
• An assortment of easy short vowel words
• Syllable breaks are sometimes shown in books with a slash (hap/pen)
• Syllable breaks are sometimes shown in books with a space (hap pen)
• Dictionaries use tiny dots to show where end-of-line hyphenation occurs
• Lesson 48
• An assortment of short easy words
• Schwa in use

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