Caroline Dennigan
Help Your Child To Learn Weekly Spellings
If your heart sinks at the very thought of helping your child learn their weekly spellings, we have put together some fun games for you both. These will help support your child at home when they have spellings to learn.
It's important to make spelling practice enjoyable and remember "little and often" is usually the best approach, that goes for kids struggling with spellings or those who pick them up quickly.
While we wholeheartedly recommend the tried and tested "LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK' approach, it's a little dry and dull
Try these fun activities:
1. STAIRCASE
Write the spelling words as a staircase and add one letter at a time as if they are stairs. For example:
S
Sl
Sli
Slip
2. ON THE OTHER HAND
If your child is right handed, get them to write their spelling words with their left hand. If they are left handed, write their spellings with their right hand.
3. SPELLING WITH FLOWERS
Ask your child to draw a large
4. TIMES THREE
Get your child to write their spellings three times over.
5. LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK (We HAD to throw that one in somewhere!)
The 'look, say, cover, write and check' method is a great way to help your child remember difficult spellings.
6. HEADLINER
Give your child a bundle of suitable magazines or comics and let them cut out the words they will need to spell each word. Then stick onto a piece of paper or make your own home spelling book.
7. DOTTY WORDS
Write the spellings in dots and give your child a
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