VMG Spelling Challenge
Your mission: collect as many tricky spellings as possible from your exercise books. This could be words that you have misspelled in a lesson, or in homework, or just words that you find very tricky! When you find that you have spelled a word incorrectly, jot it down in your planner and in the space in your exercise book. Bring the list of tricky spellings to your VMG literacy Spelling Programme session.
Now for the challenge part: Partner up with someone from your VMG. Share a word from your tricky spellings list with each other – this means discussing what might make a particular word tricky, and how you might make it easier to remember in future. E.g. the word ‘broccoli’ is tricky for some people. This is possibly because it has lots of ‘hard’ sounds in it, which makes us think we should double letters like C or L. Or maybe because it is similar to cauliflower, and has the similar ‘colly’ sound, yet they are spelled differently.
Broccoli … How can we remember it correctly? Maybe remember a saying that contains the spelling of it, e.g. 2 Cokes, one Lemonade? Can you think of better ones? Or you could write/rewrite/rewrite it until your hand gets used to the feeling and your eyes get used to the shape of it. Or we could use our inner voices to say it like it looks, emphasising the CC to remind us that we should double the c. Or you could use the look/discuss/cover/write/check process.
Move onto your next words!
Once you have discussed the words and come up with ways to remember their spellings, put your planners/notes aside. You are ready for The Test!
Write 1-5 down your white board Your partner tests you by reading out 5 of your tricky words, and you write them on a white board. You do the same to them! Swap and mark each other’s spellings, then give your results to your VMG tutor.
This week’s subject spellings are from ICT! RHYTHM (Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving) PERFORMANCE COMPOSITION DYNAMICS UKULELE Use some of your earlier spelling tricks to learn how to spell these.
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