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Visual Auditory Reading & Writing Kinaesthetic

Spelling Strategies for Thinkers

Challenge! Get someone to test you and see if

you get all your words right.

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Meaningful Sentences

Choose 5 of your spelling words and put

them into a simple sentence. Underline

your spelling words or write them in a

different colour. Remember a capital

letter at beginning of the sentence and a

full stop, question mark or exclamation

mark at the end. Circle the subject and

underline the verb of your sentence.

The big fat chicken laid a gargantuan square egg!

I love to debate issues with my friends.

We had fish and chips for tea.

The children played with the majestic dragon.

From the ceiling hung the crystal chandelier.

* Can you put two or more of your words together in just one

sentence?

* Can you construct compound sentences using FANBOYS and

find the subject and verbs in both independent clauses?

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Word Sleuth

Create a word sleuth using all of your list words.

Give it to someone else to work out.

Challenges! * Put some of your words backwards or diagonally on the grid.

* Create a coded message with the „extra letters‟ that you fill

in at the end with.

C E L E R Y D R

A R T I C H O K

R R A P P L E O

R I W B E E T W

O C I T R U S E

T E S S N A E B

S A U C E P E A

B N I K R E H G

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Spelling Cards Collated and Designed by Jennifer Moyle and Lyn Catchpole Spelling Cards Collated and Designed by Jennifer Moyle and Lyn Catchpole


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Jingle Spells,

Jingle Spells...

Create musical jingles or rhymes for five of your words.

Use your voice, or musical instruments. Make them fast

or slow, loud or soft; make them memorable! You may

complete this activity on your own or with a partner.

Record your jingles on a digital device to share with

others.

Challenge! Write, perform and record a song with as

many of your spelling words in it as possible.

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Word Grouping

Get a friend to do this activity too, with their words. Write all

of your words on coloured card, cut them out and put them into

groups. You can group them by how many letters they have, the

kinds of words they are (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), or how

many sounds or syllables they have. Get your friend to try and

work out how you have grouped them, while you try and work

out how they‟ve grouped theirs.

Challenge! Be creative and think of a different way

of grouping the words—put your green thinking hat

on and think outside the box!

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Tongue Twister

Choose five of your words and write a tongue twister

for each of them.

e.g. fiercely

Five fat fish

fight fiercely.

Challenge! Choose your longest tongue twister and

say it fast five times. Time and record how long it

takes to say it. Challenge someone else to say it

faster.

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Cousin Jane’s Building Brain

Pathways

Cousin Jane says “I like the tried and

true method of just writing my

spelling words out correctly over and

over again. I know that when I

repeat a word over and over again the

pathways between my neurons get

thicker and thicker and the correct

spelling sticks in my brain. I write

words out 20 times each to help me

remember them.”

Choose 5 words from your list, and write out each

word. Say the letters out aloud as you write them

as this will help you memorise it. Try and get into a

rhythm. Make sure you spell the words correctly or

you will have the wrong spelling stuck in your brain!

ostrich ostrich ostrich ostrich ostrich ostrich






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Wondering About Words

Choose 2 of your words and think about when they may have

first been spoken, and for what reason. Think about the time

(which century), and the country. Think about what the root of

the word may mean. Discuss with someone else, and then write

your theories for each word down. Look up your words in

www.dictionary.com and scroll past the definition to the ety-

mology of the word. Read it, and summarize your findings after

your own theories. Here‟s an example:

What I think about the word biology:

I know ‘bi’ means 2, and ‘ology’ is in

lots of other words like geology and

astrology so maybe it means a group

of things because I think geology is about groups of rocks and astrolo-

gy has groups of star signs. Maybe the word was invented to describe

groups of two things and it sounds like a French word. I think the word

would have been first used a long time ago, like a thousand years ago.

What I discovered about the word biology from the dictionary: Biology

comes from the Greek language— ‘bios’ meaning life + ‘logia’ which

means study of. So the word biology means ‘study of life.’ This was

invented as a word in 1802 by a German naturalist called G. Reinhold

Treviranus. So I guess the word was first spoken in Germany.

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On the Other Hand

Use your body smarts for this spelling strategy!

Write your list of words using your non-dominant

hand. Concentrate hard to write as neatly as

possible.

Challenge! Write all of your words

using your foot or mouth!



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Word Maker

Write the 5 longest words in your spelling list.

From each word make as many smaller words

that you can. Hint: If you individually write all

the letters on pieces of card, or use SCRABBLE

tiles, making new words is even easier!

e.g. dragonfly

drag, on, dragon, fly, dag, go, god, dog, fog, log, dry, fad, glad,

load, gray, far, lard, yard, fondly, groan, etc.

Challenge 1! How Many Words Can You Make?

Word Genius: More than 50 words

Word Legend: More than 40 words

Word Master: More than 25 words

Word Magician: More than 15 words

Word Juggler: More than 8 words

Challenge 2! Can you make an anagram of the

original word? An anagram is formed when you use

every one of the letters in the word to form a new

word or words, e.g. dragonfly = angry fold.

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Spelling with Socrates

Socrates was born in 470BCE and is one of the

most famous philosophers and lovers of

learning in humankind. His thinking and ideas

have influenced how we think and learn since he

shared his ideas 2500 years ago! He is famous

for his methods of asking questions. In this

spelling activity you get to be like Socrates and

ask clarifying questions. Use 5 of your spelling

words to create 3 sentences for each word

that start in the following way:

1. Why do you say …?

2. How does … relate/compare to … ?

3. How is… different/similar to… ?

For example the spelling word: wrong 1. Why do you say it was wrong to lie to the policeman?

2. How does being wrong compare to being right?

3. How is being wrong different to being right?

Challenge! Write a conversation between two people

asking and answering clarifying questions with your

spelling words.

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Mnemonics

Select five words and create a mnemonic for each of them. A

mnemonic is a memory aid: a short rhyme, phrase, visual design

or other technique for making information easier to memorize.

Use the SMASHINCOPE principles to help you.

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For example: the words knead and definitely can be learnt with these mnemonics:



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Spelling Rebus

Choose five of your spelling words and create a rebus

for each one. A rebus is a puzzle made up of pictures

made to represent syllables and words.

Example 1: H + = hear

Example 2: A more complex rebus representing the word garlic.

Challenge! Create a rebus sentence including as many

of your spelling words as you can. Ask your partner to decipher it.

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Antonyms

Select all of the list words that are either adjectives

(describing words) or verbs (doing words) and write as

many antonyms (words that have an opposite meaning

to) for each as you can. Use www.thesaurus.com to help.

e.g. delicious

nasty, revolting, unappetizing, disgusting, inedible,

nauseous, unpalatable, etc…

Challenge! How Many Antonyms Can You Find

For One Word?

Antonym Genius: More than 20

Antonym Legend: 15 - 19

Antonym Master: 10—14

Antonym Magician: 6+

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Spelling Haiku

Choose three of your spelling words and write a haiku

for each of them. Remember a haiku poem has a very

strict pattern—It has three lines

with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in

the second line, and 5 in the last line.

Write your focus spelling word in

colour.

A small silent pond

Frog jumps, croaks, laughs out loudly

Magpie swoops. Silence.

Helping Hand—It is much easier to write a

haiku if you say the words out loud and clap to

determine how many syllables there are.

Challenge! Research the Japanese

Tanka poem and create one with some

of your spelling words or sing your

completed haiku or tanka to a partner.

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Create Your

Own Activity!

Get your creative juices flowing with this spelling activity!

Think of an activity you already like and apply Tony Ryan’s BAR

Thinkers Key—this will help your brain to invent something new.

Below is a BAR of Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check.

New invented spelling activity:

Sneaky Peek, Sing, Shield, Scribe, Celebrate Success!

Challenge! When you have invented and trialled your new

activity, create a poster for your class explaining how the

activity can be used to learn new spelling words. Ask your

teacher to find a prominent place on the wall so that everyone

can read it.

B Bigger Write the words with an oversized writing implement

like a crayon, paintbrush or feathered ink pen.

A Add Do this activity with a partner.

R Replace Sneak a Peek for Look, Sing for Say, Shield for Cover,

Scribe for Write and Celebrate Success for Check.

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