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Police spelling word lists
Police spelling lists are now available for Personal Best Spelling. These spelling lists are currently used by the Victorian Police in Australia.
Police spelling mastery is a requirement of many police forces and written work makes up an important part of a police officer's work.
Intending users should check that the spelling of these police terms is consistent with their country's spelling conventions and that the terms are suitable for use within their own police force.
The list of police terms can be downloaded from the police terms lists page as a self-installing utility. The file will unzip (decompress) and place the word lists in the folder where Personal Best Spelling installs by default, i.e., C:\windows\pbs16adu\.
Word lists can be edited with a text editor or from within Personal Best Spelling.
Note that these lists are provided "as is" and apart from being updated from time to time there is no further support provided for these lists.
"Not just another computer game dressed up as educational software"
Personal Best Spelling is a unique learning tool for use with medical terms and other professional vocabularies. Personal Best Spelling:
- has transformed many poor spellers into proficient, confident spellers when all other methods failed
- is being used by adult and workplace literacy tutors, adult learners, colleges, universities, companies and government departments to improve spelling
- identifies your bad spelling habits (habit pattern errors) and quickly corrects them, once and for all
- helps you learn and remember your words from one day to the next
- tests your spelling and tracks your progress
- uses proven learning methods endorsed by Australian state government departments
- is the only spelling tutor that uses Old Way/New Way®, an effective research-based and user-friendly learning method
- uses an improved version of Look Say Cover Write Check, the old standby method for learning spelling
- is a genuine learning tool for spelling, not just another computer game dressed up as educational software
- does not insult the user's intelligence
- provides hundreds of editable word lists in both U.S. English and U.K./Oz English, plus you can create and edit your own lists
- runs on Windows 98 or later computers.
Preview, trial and purchase Personal Best Spelling
Before you buy, please check out the many spelling program features. You can preview the program, download and try the demo adult version for free, and then purchase it using our secure order form.
Breaking bad spelling habits
Spelling teachers and students try to get it right the first time but invariably end up spending a lot of time trying to correct bad spelling habits that somehow develop. Or, they just give up altogether
Because these errors were not corrected early, and were repeated over and over (i.e., practiced), many spelling errors quickly develop into bad habits and are then much harder to eradicate. For example, some people always write "recieve" instead of "receive".
We all know that old habits die hard and many spelling errors therefore defy correction by conventional methods.
The usual advice to practice the correct spelling over and over is not very effective. The next day learners seem to have forgotten what they've learned and the same old spelling errors resurface. It seems we just keep falling back to old ways and, consequently, transfer of learning (memory for correct spelling) is poor.
Fortunately, a cognitive science discovery called Old Way/New Way® Learning, endorsed and gazetted by the South Australian Department of Education and built into Personal Best Spelling, offers learners of all ages:
1. A new perspective on the transfer of learning problem in the learning of spelling.
2. A fast and practical way to learn to spell new and unfamiliar words.
3. A user-friendly method for quickly and permanently eradicating bad spelling habits.
