FIRST is a computer analysis suggesting which English words are likely to be hard to spell.

A set of Regular Expressions pick out the hard-to-spell words at any of 20 frequency levels (the 20x1000 family lists as used in VP-BNC). These expressions seek out research-indicated causes of spelling difficulty such as multi-syllables (unreasonableness), double-double consonants (committed), triple vowels (agreeable), classic conundrums (admissible), and others.

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SECOND is a set of complementary builders to create activities that give practice in word form retention.

1. Productive The Dictator builder routine creates TTS-based single word dictation activities in both Teach and Test modes (teach mode offering Guidespell help on incorrect answers). Requires free speaksforitself download (IE/Win only).

2. Recognition The classic ID-entify (a.k.a. Jumble or Spew) builder creates screen-at-a-time word recognition activities. Learners identify a word cued by blanked concordance lines from a jumble of random letters, such as 'agsjtylinterestingkshrtywc' (agsjtylinterestingkshrtywc).

Coming: These two routines will be joined to output from conundrums routine.