Spelling

Although we do not send lists of spellings home at Marlborough, some children may benefit from extra practise.  Many children still find it tricky to spell many of the high and medium frequency words.  We will do lots of spelling activities at school, the following are some ideas if you wanted to support this learning at home.

It should be fun! No arguments about homework please: life is stressful enough!

It is best to practise spellings in joined handwriting – this helps the brain to learn letter patterns.

This website has lots of word lists and games for high and medium frequency words:

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/

Other Websites with spelling games and activities:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/literacy/index.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/index.shtml

Ideas for home learning:

1. Rainbow writing: Write your spelling words in pencil and then use two or three different coloured crayons to trace over the words.
2. Pyramid Writing: Write the first letter of your word, then on the next line, write the first two letters of your word. Continue doing this until you have the word spelled.
3. Red Vowels: Write your words in pencil. Then trace over the vowels with a red pencil, pen or crayon.
4. Salt/rice/sand writing: pour some salt/rice/sand onto a tray and write your words with your finger.
5. Glue It Writing: cut out letters from newspapers, magazines or make different kinds on the computer. Glue them to paper to write your spelling words.
6. Tongue Twisters: write a tongue twister using your words. Underline the spelling word. E.g. Wally went walking in Wimbledon.
7. Make your words from playdoh/plasticine/blu-tack/pastry (then you can ‘eat your words’!).
8. Paint your words BIG using a large paintbrush with water on a wall outside.
9. Trace your word onto someone’s back/get someone to trace it onto yours.
10. Look/cover/write/check: look at the word/cover the word/write the word/check the word. How many can you write in 1 minute? Try to better your score.

This is a list of words that should be learnt during years 3 and 4… how many can you spell?

accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy/business
calendar
caught
centre
century
certain
circle
complete
consider
continue
decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
early
earth
eight/eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
famous
favourite
February
forward(s)
fruit
grammar
group
guard
guide
heard
heart
height
history
imagine
increase
important
interest
island
knowledge
learn
length
library
material
medicine
mention
minute
natural
naughty
notice
occasion(ally)
often
opposite
ordinary
particular
peculiar
perhaps
popular
position
possess(ion)
possible
potatoes
pressure
probably
promise
purpose
quarter
question
recent
regular
reign
remember
sentence
separate
special
straight
strange
strength
suppose
surprise
therefore
though/although
thought
through
various
weight
woman/women

If you come across any other good websites or ideas, please comment below.

Thanks from Mrs G