Ways to Learn Spellings 

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• Look at the word. Cover the word. Write the word.  Check you have spelled it correctly.

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• Trace Copy and Write from memory (and then check)

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• Quickwrite – write the word as quickly as you can lots of times

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• Drawing round the word to show the shape

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• Drawing an image around a word 

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• Pyramid writing

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• Rainbow writing

Using coloured pencils in different ways can help to make parts of words memorable.

highlight the tricky part of the word or write the tricky part in a different colour.

write each letter in a different colour, or  write the word in red, then overlay in orange, yellow and so on.

 

 

• Making up memorable ‘silly sentences’ containing the word

big elephants can always understand small elephants

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• Saying the word in a funny way

e.g. pronouncing the ‘silent’ letters in a word

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• Clapping and counting to identify the syllables in a word

• Breaking the word into chunks

 

And finally………    Practise,

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Taken from No Nonsense Spelling by Babcock Education published by Raintree