How to revise and learn spellings! May 2017

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Top tip number 1 – Spelling vs. Reading. Reading doesn’t improve spelling. Just because you’ve seen a word, read it, and copied it down once, doesn’t mean you’ll be able to spell it. You must work at and study spelling, question it, notice it and think about it.

Top tip number 2 –  be aware of letter patterns within words – double doors, i before e etc.

Top tip 3 – spelling memory. Most forgetting happens in the first few hours. So you need to revise little and often. Writing and spelling are interlinked. If you want to improve your spelling you must write. Use the words you want to learn in a piece of writing and it will help fix their meaning and their spelling in your mind.

Top tip 4 – Spelling vs. Speaking and how you mustn’t fret over your accent and think it’s at fault for your spelling. We’ve always had different accents and dialects which means we can’t have a phonetic spelling system. The guys in the 1800’s who wrote the first “real” English dictionary (Oxford English Dictionary), knew this, didn’t give a hoot about making spelling easy or writing it phonetically. They were more concerned about showing the history and roots of the words most likely because there were too many accents and dialects to make it work this way.

Top Tip 5 – use memory tricks to help you remember difficult spellings. Use rhymes, mnemonics and saying and any trick to help you to remember how to spell words

Top Tip 6 – use syllable breakdown
Using syllable breakdown is a strategy to help you, especially with those long words and it’s up to you how you do it as long has it helps you. There’s no right or wrong way. Exaggerate the sound, use it in combination with memory tricks, use anything to help you remember the spelling of words that are important in your life.

Breaking words down into syllables is especially good for good spellers who need a strategy to help them spell long words.
qualification – qua / li / fi / ca / tion
identification- i/den/ti/fi ca tion

Top Tip 7 – take an interest in words, knowing the history of spelling and words helps you realise why spelling is the way it is and stops you getting frustrated with it.
Knowing the origins and history of words, and why they are spelled the way they are, is a great way to understand and learn them. English is an interesting language full of words borrowed from other languages, and is still growing. No one can put a figure on how many words are in the English language because it’s growing all the time, especially with technology and scientific words.

Top Tip 8 – the do’s and don’ts of spelling
It’s never ever too late to learn to spell well. Do work on your spelling do exercises, tests, write. Do enjoy spelling for all its quirky ways

Top Tip 9 – learn spelling rules
It’s always good to know why spelling is the way it is, and knowing spelling rules is one of many strategies to help you learn to spell well.
But there are always exceptions to the rule, which you need to learn too. Sometimes it’s hard to remember the rule which is fine so maybe you’ll remember the spelling pattern, and at least you hopefully will know why a spelling is the way it is. I have a great exclusive spelling rules course on curious.com –click here to go to curious.com/howtospell/series/rules-of-english-spelling

Top Tip 10 – use it or lose it! A revision of the spelling rules.
Keep working on your spelling, use the strategies and tips I suggest in my videos and you’ll soon be spelling really well

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How to Spell.co.uk



Spellings – Revision May 2017

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Six ways to revise your spellings

Trace, copy and recall

Make a chart like this with 3 or four spelling words you want to learn:

Sample trace, copy and recall chart

Then fold over the “recall” part so that only the first two columns show:

Sample chart with recall column folded back

Then,

  • Say the word to yourself.
  • Trace it in the first column, saying the letters as you trace. Say the word again. You might put a little rhythm into it, “WORD. W – pause – O – pause – R-D. WORD!” (Remember, the goal here is to remember how to spell the words, not to successfully follow these directions.)
  • Go to the second column, say the word, and write it the same way.
  • While the rhythm and the sound and the feeling are fresh in your mind, flip the paper over and say the word and spell it out — the same way, saying each letter (because, after all, practice makes permanent).
  • If it’s a hard word, put it on the list more than once. If you’re feeling particularly smart, trace and copy TWO words, and try to remember them both before you flip the page over. However, if your short-term memory isn’t big enough to hold all that, do one at a time because you want to practice the words RIGHT, not make guesses!
  • After you’ve done all the words this way a few times, start doing them two or three at a time, and when you feel like you know them, do the list again — but skip the tracing, or, when you’re feeling VERY confident, skip the tracing and the copying both.

Reverse chaining by letter

  • Say the word. Then write it, saying each letter (be enthusiastic and expressive)
    • W – O – R – D
  • Skip a line and say it and write it again — minus the last letter. Say the last letter, but don’t write it.
    • W – O – R – ____
  • Skip a line and say it and write it again — minus the last two letters. Say them, but don’t write them.
    • W – O – ___ ____
  • Do that until you’re only writing one letter.
  • Go back to the top. Read the word, then spell it out loud.
  • Fold the page over so you can’t see the whole word. Say the word, spell it, and add that last letter.
  • Fold the page back again. Say the word, spell it, and add the last two letters.
  • Keep going until you spell the whole word.
  • GO BACK AND CHECK — make sure you didn’t leave out a letter.

Reverse chaining by syllable

This is harder, for longer words.

  • Say the word. Then write it, saying each letter (be enthusiastic and expressive)
    • S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E
  • Skip a line and say it and write it again — minus the last syllable. Say the last syllable and spell it out loud, but don’t write it.
    • S-E-P-A-_________
  • Continue until you aren’t writing anything — but still say the spelling out loud.
  • Go back to the top. Read the word, then spell it out loud.
  • Fold the page over so you can’t see the whole word. Say the word, spell it, and add the last syllable.
  • Fold the page back again. Say the word, spell it, and add the last two syllables.
  • Continue until you spell the whole word.
  • GO BACK AND CHECK — make sure you didn’t leave out any letters.
    • should
    • shoul__
    • shou__ __
    • sho __ __ __
    • sh__ __ __ __
    • s __ __ __ __ __
    • __ __ __ __ __ __

Highlighting the hard parts

Some words, like separate, are only hard in some parts. You might be getting these right on a test — but always spelling them WRONG when you write, frustrating you and your teachers to no end. And since practice makes permanent, every time you practice it wrong you’re making it more likely you’ll write it wrong the next time. Here’s something to help you focus on the troublesome part.

This is also a good technique for learning rules and patterns. If you want to learn a bunch of IE words — that “I before E” rule that so many people find so hard to use — this is a good way to do it.

Get different color pens or pencils or markers, and index cards. Write the words vividly, boldly on the cards — and make the ‘hard part’ a different color than the rest… maybe with stripes on the letters. Make a mental picture of that card, read the word aloud and spell it aloud, and change the way you say the “hard part,” maybe saying it louder, maybe putting on a British accent. So, you’d write:

sepArate    believe
relieve   grieve   achieve

When you write the whole word, think about the hard part, what it looks like or sounds like. So, while you’re writing “separate,” you might be thinking “sep-AY-rate” and/or visualizing that bold, red A.

Again, the keys here are to NOT overwhelm your brain — don’t try to learn 5 words at a time like this unless you’ve got an amazing visual memory. Better to do one word 5 times — and start spelling it right in your writing.

Use a tape recorder to test yourself, and to practice using words

Read the words — be sure you’re pronouncing them right — into a tape recorder. Record it like it’s a spelling test: word, example sentence, word. For example, you’d say “Separate. Put the papers in separate piles. Separate. Spelled s – e – p – a – r – a – t – e.” Play it back — and try to say the spelling before the tape plays it.

Use the words in short phrases

If separate is the word, see if you can think of 5 different phrases with the word and write them out. Let’s see… separate rooms, separate cars, separate houses, A Separate Peace, separate the pages. Or, try to use 20 of your words in the same story. Get silly — have fun with the words!

Jones, S. (1998). Five Guidelines for Learning to Spell and Six Ways to Practice Spelling. From The Resource Room: Free Spirited Structured Multisensory Learning. Retrieved online Nov. 14, 2008, from http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/guidespell.asp.

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Rang a 5 – 22-26.05.2017

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interval

animal

loyal

punctual

 

arrival

accidental

pedal

normal

hospital

funeral

criminal

local

final

Licence

Absence

Practice

i before e except after c and some weird exceptions

Be careful with double doors and word endings

30 days has September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have 31
Except February alone,
Which has 28 days clear
And 29 in each leap year.

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Rang a 5 – 15-19.05.2017 Spellings

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R5 – 15-19.05 – Work to be completed in your copy. Thank you.

  1. Please write out the following list and learn to spell the words.
  2. Please find the dictionary meaning for
    1. practice
    2. licence
    3. absence
  3. Please complete the relevant worksheet.

Word List

awesome

quarrelsome

bothersome

wholesome

tiresome

cumbersome

wearisome

handsome

lonesome

troublesome

twosome

fountain

villain

Great Britain

practice

licence

absent

absence

argue

argument

necessary – one collar and two sleeves are necessary for an interview! chaos

chaos – cyclones, hurricanes and other storms create chaos.

rhythm helps your two hips move
because – big elephants can always understand small elephants.

diarrhoea – dash ia real rush hurry oelse accident