Spellings
Ideas for Teaching Spelling
Write the word once in yellow pen/pencil & the learner picks 5 or 6 colours and goes over your word, naming the letters as they do so.
Useful for irregular words. It works best if the first word id the word to be learned.
E.g. Police – Police Only Let Invisible Criminals Escape
Find a word, look at it, chunk it, choose a colour for each chunk, look at the word (take a photo), look away and remember, remember the word backwards, write it forwards.
Words within words
Look at the words and see if they can spot any smaller words hiding in longer words. E.g. there’s a ‘hen’ in ‘when’, there’s here’ in ‘where’ ‘there’s an ache in every teacher’
Pictures in words
Visual patterns in words
Look for patterns in words, e.g. remember
Shapes of words
Useful for longer words. Rehearse and clap the syllables, spell each syllable separately, then put the syllables together. For example, con-tin-ent, for-got-ten
Auditory
· Spelling pronunciation
Scissors – skissors, friend – fry-end, bicycle – bee eye see why see elly
· Sing song letters
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY
· Own voice
Pupils tape themselves reading word aloud saying the letters, saying the word again. Play back and write whilst listening.
Exaggerate the pronunciation of words.
· Beginnings – knight
· Endings – climb
· Add missing syllables – lib/rair/y
· Words within words – veg/e/table
· Parts of words – February
· Silent letters – write
With your index finger, magic (imaginary) pencil or whilst holding a real pencil, write the spelling word in the air slowly, saying the letters aloud as you write. Encourage the child to ‘see’ the letters in the air. What was the first letter? What was the last letter? How many letters are there?
Use Spell Magic, cannellini beans, small pebbles, pieces of card/paper or wooden/magnetic letters.
Use a paintbrush and water to write your words or phonemes outside on a patio or pavement.
Write the word or phoneme on a white board and then rub it out with a finger, tracing the letters and naming them out loud as you do it.
Ideas for Teaching Spelling
Rainbow writing
Write the word once in yellow pen/pencil & the learner picks 5 or 6 colours and goes over your word, naming the letters as they do so.
Useful for irregular words. It works best if the first word id the word to be learned.
E.g. Police – Police Only Let Invisible Criminals Escape
Magical spelling
Find a word, look at it, chunk it, choose a colour for each chunk, look at the word (take a photo), look away and remember, remember the word backwards, write it forwards.
Visual Approaches
Words within word
Look at the words and see if they can spot any smaller words hiding in longer words. E.g. there’s a ‘hen’ in ‘when’, there’s here’ in ‘where’ ‘there’s an ache in every teacher’