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At North Nibley C of E Primary we are always looking for ways to help you help your children. This booklet contains a number ideas, previously shared in newsletters, which support the learning of spellings. It helps a word 'stick' if children use a range of methods that tie together the way it looks, sounds and feels. So if your child uses eyes, ears and hands he/she will stand a very good chance of learning spellings for good! Also, by using a range of methods your child will enjoy the activity more. Staying interested and rising to the challenge counts a lot too! Please remember that practise tests are very ineffective methods of learning. You have to put new spellings in before you can expect the knowledge to come out in a test. Don’t try all the methods with all the words a child has been asked to learn. Concentrate only on the words that he or she finds tricky, and no more than one or two of the methods per week. You may find that one method is particularly successful for your child. Great! Stay with it and celebrate success! 1 Rainbow writing (1). Write each letter in a different colour. (Where a letter crops up more than once you could use the same colour.) You could say the letter names as each one is written. Then say the word aloud when it's complete. 2 Getting the feel of a word (1). Put a layer of sand in a tray. Trace the shape of each word (nice and big) in the sand. You can say the letters and read the word aloud too. 20 Bubble letters. Write out a word you are learning, using hollow ‘bubble letters’. After you write your words in bubble letters, colour your words with a crayon or coloured pencil. 21 Crosswords. Take a number of your spellings and see if you can link the longer words ‘crossword’ style. Try to remember the linking letters. 22 Getting the feel of a word (2). Choose a word from your spelling list and write it, a letter at a time, on a partner's back. Your partner must identify the word from the feel alone. Swap places and choose another 'mystery word' from the list. 23 Flash cards. Write out each word on a piece of paper. Ask someone to hold it in front of you and stare at it for 10 seconds. Turn the paper over and repeat it out loud from memory. Better still write it down. Then check it – and take note of any mistakes. 24 Anagrams. Ask someone to give you all the right letters to spell a word – written down, fridge magnets or torn from newspapers – but muddled up. Announce the word and time how long it takes to rearrange the letters to give the correct spelling. ? I’m convinced there are other ways of learning spellings. If you know some that really work for you, let us know and we can add it to the list.
