When practising your spellings choose your favourite game

When practising your spellings, choose your favourite game and two others to help you learn them. Remember to practise in your homework books! Honeycomb Spelling homework LSCWC Speed Write LOOK SAY Rainbow letters Write your word and go over it several times in different colours. COVER WRITE CHECK Look for words within words ‘wind’ in window Syllable split Break words up into portions of sound. alphabet al / pha / bet ‘bus’ in business ‘rat’ in separate Finish! Ask someone to give you the first and last letter or sound as a clue. Then finish the word. th _ _ _ t th i r s t The games in blue will need to be played with an adult! Word Pyramids Create a pyramid with the word you are practising. How many times can you write the word you are practising in one minute? It must be spelt correctly, joined up and written neatly. Word families o of off Word unscramble Ask someone to scramble up some of your spelling words. Your job is to unscramble them in the correct order. lofwendur = wonderful Look at the root word and add suffixes and prefixes understand misunderstand Create a mnemonic because big elephants can always understand small elephants 123 spelling riddles understanding 1. This word is a fast movement. Right from wrong 2. It has a double ‘n’ in it. Ask someone to give you a choice of four different spellings of a word you are working on. Only 1 will be correct, but which one? wos woz was whas 3. You are not supposed to do it down the corridor. running