Transcript Spelling Strategies

Spelling Strategies
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Spelling strategies
What sort of speller are you?
Do you keep a record of your errors?
I hate
spelling
tests.
Me too!
Do you know what your spelling problems are?
Do you know how to improve?
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Spotting mistakes
Keep a sharp eye out for errors in your spelling.
Then try to identify what kind of mistakes you usually
make.
Now you can start to do something about them!
Typical errors include:
problems with homophones
missing silent letters
confusion over double letters
confusing words which sound similar
not knowing rules
endings.
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Spotting mistakes
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Spotting mistakes
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Spotting mistakes
1. Draw a table like this one:
Spelling error
Correct spelling
Type of error
2. Gather as many pieces of your writing as you can.
3. List the mistakes, the correct spelling and the type of error.
4. Try to identify common mistakes.
5. Now give yourself at least one spelling target.
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Personal spelling notebook
Keep a personal spelling notebook.
Here are some of the things you might include in it.
Personal errors
Types of errors
Subject keywords
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Spelling strategies
Rules and conventions
Targets
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Strategies
If you have problems with a word, try one of the
strategies suggested here!
Write the strategies down in your spelling notebook.
Study, cover, write, check
study the word carefully
cover it
write it down from memory
check it
repeat until you are happy you know it.
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Strategies
Sounding it out
Sometimes it is helpful to sound out the syllables of a
word, e.g. re-mem-ber.
Some words, particularly those with unstressed or silent
letters, can be sounded out very deliberately:
e.g. Wed-nes-day, def-i-nite
Find five other
words suitable for
sounding out.
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Strategies
Look for letter patterns
It’s difficult to remember
the pattern of letters in
some words.
So try to find the same
pattern in other words that
you do know.
This may help you to
associate the words and
remember the pattern.
E.g. guard is often
misspelled (as gaurd).
gu is the problem area
So look for other words
with gu, like ‘gun’,
‘gust’, ‘league’. You can
even invent a phrase to
help you remember:
‘The guard with the
gun.’
Find letter patterns for
three other difficult
words, e.g. calendar.
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Strategies
Mnemonics
These are rhymes or phrases that help you to remember
the letters in a word.
E.g.
rhythm – rhythm helps your two hips move
because – big elephants can always upset small
elephants
In your notebooks, write down any
mnemonics you know.
Create a new mnemonic for a tricky word.
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Strategies
Words within words
Lots of words contain other words.
Use this knowledge to help you spell the more difficult words.
E.g.
There is a lie in the middle of believe.
Conscience is another tricky word, but it has a school
subject in it: con + science.
See how many other examples you
can find of words within words.
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