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Spelling
Rusthall St. Paul’s CE School
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True or False?
Reading
will help children with spelling..
Learning
to spell will help reading…
Handwriting
is important when learning
to spell…
When
children are writing they should
stop at every word they cannot spell and
use a dictionary…
The
sound of a word is a good guide to how it
is spelt…
Good
spellers have a store of word pictures
in their mind, which they refer to when they
want to spell a word…
If
a child looks at a word long enough he/she
will learn how to spell it…
Writing
a word helps children to learn how
to spell it…
Looking
for words within words can help
spelling…
Copying
a word over and over again is a
good way to learn it…
True or False?....Answers!
 Reading will help children with spelling… T
 Learning to spell will help reading…T
 Handwriting is important when learning to
spell…T
 When children are writing they should stop at
every word they cannot spell and use a
dictionary…F
 The sound of a word is a good guide to how it is
spelt…T (to a degree)
 Good spellers have a store of word pictures in their
mind, which they refer to when they want to spell a
word…T
 If a child looks at a word long enough he/she will
learn how to spell it…F
 Writing a word helps children to learn how to
spell it…T
 Looking for words within words can help
spelling…T
 Copying a word over and over again is a
good way to learn it…Only if copied
correctly!!!
Weak spellers…..
Children who struggle with spelling usually have no
strategies up their sleeve when they get stuck on a
word. Ask any weak spellers the question, ‘what
do you do when you cannot spell a word’. They will
have, at best, one strategy. But it is most likely that
they guess. To help them become better spellers
they need to acquire a range of different
approaches to help them.
Pie Corbett
The Teaching of Spelling
 Spellings need to be explicitly taught;
 Rules, patterns and etymology should be
investigated using a multi-sensory approach;
 The spellings on weekly lists are rarely applied to
independent writing unless they have been
thoroughly taught and investigated.
Benefits of Investigations
• They appeal to problem-solving instincts
• Children have to be more active in
deconstructing words
• They model a self-help strategy
• An interesting way to learn
• They aid memory
• They are more likely to lead to children
applying correct spellings to their work than
learning lists.
Some Spelling Strategies
• Roots
• Mnemonics
• Handwriting
• Syllables and Phonemes
• Homophones
Some words are really hard to spell. The trick is
to remember a word that is spelled the same,
then use it to help spell others!
One tricky
word is
could.
could
A good way to remember this spelling is:
O U Lucky Duck
because…
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small
Elephants = Because
You wouldn’t want to FRI the END of your
friend! = Friend
We went TO GET HER = Together
WE Do Not Eat Soup DAY = Wednesday
Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move =
Rhythm
You hear with your EAR = Hear
Phoneme checker
Good Spellers Apply:
 Phonics
 Words within words
 Grammatical knowledge
 Memory and experience
 Existing knowledge
 Synonyms
Spelling Tests
Limitations:
• Written work does not reflect spelling test results.
• Children become passive learners, receiving
delivered knowledge and are not actively
involved in the learning process.
• The teaching of spelling is removed from the
process of writing and is taught as a discrete skill.
Look Cover Write Check helps with these faults.
Spelling activities
Which one?

Speed write
Encourage the children to draw a picture
that relates to the meaning…
Sea
See
See
Apdapted from Pie Corbett)
• Write up a word on the
board that is of
interest or causing
concern. Discuss
ways to remember.
• Ask children to write
down as many times
in 30 seconds.
Spelling activities
c
Finish it
• Encourages children who
struggle with spelling, as it
provides them with a
scaffold in the form of
letters already in place.
Give the children a set
time to come up with the
word e.g.
• St_p
Stamp, stop, stoop, steep, step
Apdapted from Pie Corbett)
Word ladders
banana
aeroplane
energy
yellow
Spelling activities
c
Countdown
Visualisation
•
•
Give the children a selection
of letters and ask them to
make as many words as
possible.
•
AEIOUSFBDRNMLHT
Ant
Snail
Hair
Banana
Bread
Apdapted from Pie Corbett)
Deer
Measure
Fossil
Lion
Fern
•
Charades
Act out the word. Partner
guesses then spells.
Pictionary
Repeatedly write the word
and draw a picture to match
the word
Taboo
Describe the word without
saying it. Partner guesses
then spells.
Spelling activities
Colour me magic
Write the word as many
times as you can on the
page using a different
colour for each letter
said said
said said
Have you posted it?
Identify focus
words in a text e.g.
words ending in
able
Spelling activities
c
Spelling Detectives
Spellings on board –
One minute to look
at them.
Teacher Change!
Score!
Spelling aerobics
When spelling a word they
reach their hands over
their head for a tall letter
that when written extends
above the line: (b, d, f, h, k,
l, t), put hands on hips for
middle letters written in
between the lines: (a, c, e,
i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z),
and stretch toward their
toes for letters that fall
below the lines when
written: (g, j, p, q, y).
Spelling activities
Compound
Staircases:
Pass the Rhyme
The last small word in
the compound word
becomes the first small
word in the next
compound, such as:
 sunlight lighthouse
housework workshop.
Say a word, throw beanbag
to one child who has to say
a word that rhymes with the
first word, they throw it to
another child who has to
give another rhyme and so
on. Words can be repeated
if child is stuck.
Some useful websites:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html#7
http://www.kidsspell.com/
http://funschool.kaboose.com/globe-rider/explorer-adventures/games/game_atonra_the_lost_statue.html
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml
http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.htm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/
http://www.parentsintouch.co.uk/Spelling-worksheets