This document provides guidance on spelling rules and patterns in English, including: 1) Doubling final consonants before suffixes like -ed, -ing for words like travel and stopping. 2) Removing silent e's before suffixes like -ing for words like hoping and making. 3) Common vowel spelling patterns and their sounds like ea sounding like ee in eat, and ou sounding like o-e in soap. 4) Irregular plurals like children and sheep, and adding -es for words ending in s, sh, ch, x or zz. 5) Silent letters in words like knee, who, and bought.