To help learn and better understand your weekly spelling words, have a go at the following activities!
Visual strategies
Auditory strategies
Kinaesthetic strategies
Memory strategies
Visual strategies
- find words within your words without jumbling the letters (and then try doing it with jumbling!)
- Underline any double letters, prefixes (letters at the start of a word that changes its meaning, e.g. unhappy) or suffixes (letters at the end of the word that change or add to meaning, e.g. helpless)
- Make a wordsearch using puzzlemaker and solve it
- Test yourself with a 'Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check'
Auditory strategies
- Find words that end with the same sound, even if they have different spelling
- Break the words into syllables and write your vowels in one colour and consonants in another
- Underline any silent letters, letters in your word where two letters make the one sound (e.g. ch, ai),or consonant blends at the start, middle or end of word (e.g. br, cl, ft)
- Identify whether vowels make their short or long sound
Kinaesthetic strategies
- Cut out letters from a magazine/newspaper and put them together to make your word
- Form words with objects, e.g. lego
- Have someone trace the letters of your words on your back and try and guess them
Memory strategies
- Write your words in plural if singular (and singular if plural)
- Write any adjectives/adverbs in the comparative ('er') and superlative ('est') form
- Discover the word origins of your spelling words
- Investigate word families by writing the base word and then word build, e.g. interest - interested, interesting
- Write antonyms (opposite) and synonyms (similar) of your words (practice using a thesaurus for this)
- Write your words in interesting sentences (or even better, in an interesting paragraph or story!)
- Find the dictionary meaning of your words