Transcript Spellings - Innsworth Junior School

Strategies to use at home
• Write a story, intentionally misspelling words. Have
your child be the teacher and correct your work.
Marie always wanted to rite her life’s story. She did
knot no if she was going to tell awl of it but weather
she told the hole story or not, it wood bee very
interesting.
We use all of these different ways, we do
not just concentrate on one.
Strategies to use at home
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Find patterns across words and try to group
words together.
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Point out new and interesting words and discuss
with your child.
Strategies to use at home
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Spell out words or break them down
Separate, ‘sep / a / rat / e’
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Think of smaller words and add the extra
letters.
hear
their
balloon
friends
where
every
Strategies to use at home
• Respecting "good mistakes" - "purpose":
For example, spelling it "purpus“ - like "focus"
…but also explain the bad ones - "prupose”
• Word web: –
Strategies to use at home
• Associate words with a word they can already spell.
“to broach…”
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Play spelling games with your child, e.g. Boggle,
Scrabble, hangman.
Useful strategies to use at home
• http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html#7
http://www.commoncoresheets.com/SpellingMaker.php
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/spelling_games.htm
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