Spelling Homework for library lesson

Spelling homework until Easter

Spend 20 minutes over the week (4 blocks of 5 minutes is better than 1 block of 20 minutes) learning 5 spellings until you are completely confident with them.

Week 1: Take 5 spellings from your English book that have been marked as incorrect. Write down the correct spelling on your spelling sheet. Use a dictionary to make sure you have copied it correctly. Practice them using a method that works well for you. If you do not have enough incorrect spellings in your book, or you want to push yourself, there is a list of common spelling errors below. You will be tested in the library lesson.

Week 2: If you got all of week 1’s spellings correct, take 5 more from your book. If not, keep the ones you got wrong on your list, then make it up to 5 with more from your book, or from the list below.

Week 3/4: Continue as above.

Super-hard Spellings: 1. Embarrassment 2. Fluorescent 3. Accommodate 4. Psychiatrist 5. Occasionally   6. Necessary 7. Questionnaire 8. Mischievous 9. Rhythm 10. Minuscule 11. Conscience  12. Xylophone 13. Pronunciation 14. Graffiti 15. Millennium 16. Occurrence 17. Exhilarate 

18. Restaurant 19. Accessory 20. Guarantee 21. License 22. Separate 23. Believe 24. Colleague 

25. Definite 26. Humorous 27. Weird 28. Symphony 29. Illicit                   30. Species 31. Appearance 32. Possession 33.  Vacuum 34. Changeable 35. Queue   36. Acquire 37. Receipt 38. Receive 39. Difficulty 40. Foreign 41. Discipline                    42. Equipment 43. Business 44. Relevant 45. Beautiful 46. Technology                            47. Neighbour 48. Friend 49. Religious 50. Government

 

Ways of remembering spellings

1.      Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check

2.      Write out repeatedly (joined up writing helps with this process)

3.      Finger spell in the air

4.      Find a word in a word (separate… a rat )

5.      Use a mnemonic: big elephants can’t always use small exits

6.      Use scrabble tiles. Jumble, then rearrange

7.      Draw pictures inside the word (accommodation)

8.      Pronounce it in an exaggerated way: Feb-roo-ary

9.      Break it down into syllables (different colour for each syllable can help)

10.   Find the root word – what are the prefixes and suffixes? Antidisestablishmentarianism

11.   Write the word vertically instead of horizontally

12.   Write the word, missing a letter each time

13. Use a rhyme / say the letter names aloud: mississipi, difficulty