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Challenge! Get someone to test you and see if
you get all your words right.
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Meaningful Sentences
Choose 5 of your spelling words and put
them into a simple sentence. Underline
your spelling words or write them in a
different colour. Remember a capital
letter at beginning of the sentence and a
full stop, question mark or exclamation
mark at the end. Circle the subject and
underline the verb of your sentence.
The big fat chicken laid a gargantuan square egg!
I love to debate issues with my friends.
We had fish and chips for tea.
The children played with the majestic dragon.
From the ceiling hung the crystal chandelier.
* Can you put two or more of your words together in just one
sentence?
* Can you construct compound sentences using FANBOYS and
find the subject and verbs in both independent clauses?
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Word Sleuth
Create a word sleuth using all of your list words.
Give it to someone else to work out.
Challenges! * Put some of your words backwards or diagonally on the grid.
* Create a coded message with the „extra letters‟ that you fill
in at the end with.
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A R T I C H O K
R R A P P L E O
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B N I K R E H G
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Jingle Spells,
Jingle Spells...
Create musical jingles or rhymes for five of your words.
Use your voice, or musical instruments. Make them fast
or slow, loud or soft; make them memorable! You may
complete this activity on your own or with a partner.
Record your jingles on a digital device to share with
others.
Challenge! Write, perform and record a song with as
many of your spelling words in it as possible.
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Word Grouping
Get a friend to do this activity too, with their words. Write all
of your words on coloured card, cut them out and put them into
groups. You can group them by how many letters they have, the
kinds of words they are (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), or how
many sounds or syllables they have. Get your friend to try and
work out how you have grouped them, while you try and work
out how they‟ve grouped theirs.
Challenge! Be creative and think of a different way
of grouping the words—put your green thinking hat
on and think outside the box!
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Tongue Twister
Choose five of your words and write a tongue twister
for each of them.
e.g. fiercely
Five fat fish
fight fiercely.
Challenge! Choose your longest tongue twister and
say it fast five times. Time and record how long it
takes to say it. Challenge someone else to say it
faster.
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Cousin Jane’s Building Brain
Pathways
Cousin Jane says “I like the tried and
true method of just writing my
spelling words out correctly over and
over again. I know that when I
repeat a word over and over again the
pathways between my neurons get
thicker and thicker and the correct
spelling sticks in my brain. I write
words out 20 times each to help me
remember them.”
Choose 5 words from your list, and write out each
word. Say the letters out aloud as you write them
as this will help you memorise it. Try and get into a
rhythm. Make sure you spell the words correctly or
you will have the wrong spelling stuck in your brain!
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Wondering About Words
Choose 2 of your words and think about when they may have
first been spoken, and for what reason. Think about the time
(which century), and the country. Think about what the root of
the word may mean. Discuss with someone else, and then write
your theories for each word down. Look up your words in
www.dictionary.com and scroll past the definition to the ety-
mology of the word. Read it, and summarize your findings after
your own theories. Here‟s an example:
What I think about the word biology:
I know ‘bi’ means 2, and ‘ology’ is in
lots of other words like geology and
astrology so maybe it means a group
of things because I think geology is about groups of rocks and astrolo-
gy has groups of star signs. Maybe the word was invented to describe
groups of two things and it sounds like a French word. I think the word
would have been first used a long time ago, like a thousand years ago.
What I discovered about the word biology from the dictionary: Biology
comes from the Greek language— ‘bios’ meaning life + ‘logia’ which
means study of. So the word biology means ‘study of life.’ This was
invented as a word in 1802 by a German naturalist called G. Reinhold
Treviranus. So I guess the word was first spoken in Germany.
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On the Other Hand
Use your body smarts for this spelling strategy!
Write your list of words using your non-dominant
hand. Concentrate hard to write as neatly as
possible.
Challenge! Write all of your words
using your foot or mouth!
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Word Maker
Write the 5 longest words in your spelling list.
From each word make as many smaller words
that you can. Hint: If you individually write all
the letters on pieces of card, or use SCRABBLE
tiles, making new words is even easier!
e.g. dragonfly
drag, on, dragon, fly, dag, go, god, dog, fog, log, dry, fad, glad,
load, gray, far, lard, yard, fondly, groan, etc.
Challenge 1! How Many Words Can You Make?
Word Genius: More than 50 words
Word Legend: More than 40 words
Word Master: More than 25 words
Word Magician: More than 15 words
Word Juggler: More than 8 words
Challenge 2! Can you make an anagram of the
original word? An anagram is formed when you use
every one of the letters in the word to form a new
word or words, e.g. dragonfly = angry fold.
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Spelling with Socrates
Socrates was born in 470BCE and is one of the
most famous philosophers and lovers of
learning in humankind. His thinking and ideas
have influenced how we think and learn since he
shared his ideas 2500 years ago! He is famous
for his methods of asking questions. In this
spelling activity you get to be like Socrates and
ask clarifying questions. Use 5 of your spelling
words to create 3 sentences for each word
that start in the following way:
1. Why do you say …?
2. How does … relate/compare to … ?
3. How is… different/similar to… ?
For example the spelling word: wrong 1. Why do you say it was wrong to lie to the policeman?
2. How does being wrong compare to being right?
3. How is being wrong different to being right?
Challenge! Write a conversation between two people
asking and answering clarifying questions with your
spelling words.
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Mnemonics
Select five words and create a mnemonic for each of them. A
mnemonic is a memory aid: a short rhyme, phrase, visual design
or other technique for making information easier to memorize.
Use the SMASHINCOPE principles to help you.
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For example: the words knead and definitely can be learnt with these mnemonics:
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Spelling Rebus
Choose five of your spelling words and create a rebus
for each one. A rebus is a puzzle made up of pictures
made to represent syllables and words.
Example 1: H + = hear
Example 2: A more complex rebus representing the word garlic.
Challenge! Create a rebus sentence including as many
of your spelling words as you can. Ask your partner to decipher it.
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Antonyms
Select all of the list words that are either adjectives
(describing words) or verbs (doing words) and write as
many antonyms (words that have an opposite meaning
to) for each as you can. Use www.thesaurus.com to help.
e.g. delicious
nasty, revolting, unappetizing, disgusting, inedible,
nauseous, unpalatable, etc…
Challenge! How Many Antonyms Can You Find
For One Word?
Antonym Genius: More than 20
Antonym Legend: 15 - 19
Antonym Master: 10—14
Antonym Magician: 6+
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Spelling Haiku
Choose three of your spelling words and write a haiku
for each of them. Remember a haiku poem has a very
strict pattern—It has three lines
with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in
the second line, and 5 in the last line.
Write your focus spelling word in
colour.
A small silent pond
Frog jumps, croaks, laughs out loudly
Magpie swoops. Silence.
Helping Hand—It is much easier to write a
haiku if you say the words out loud and clap to
determine how many syllables there are.
Challenge! Research the Japanese
Tanka poem and create one with some
of your spelling words or sing your
completed haiku or tanka to a partner.
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Create Your
Own Activity!
Get your creative juices flowing with this spelling activity!
Think of an activity you already like and apply Tony Ryan’s BAR
Thinkers Key—this will help your brain to invent something new.
Below is a BAR of Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check.
New invented spelling activity:
Sneaky Peek, Sing, Shield, Scribe, Celebrate Success!
Challenge! When you have invented and trialled your new
activity, create a poster for your class explaining how the
activity can be used to learn new spelling words. Ask your
teacher to find a prominent place on the wall so that everyone
can read it.
B Bigger Write the words with an oversized writing implement
like a crayon, paintbrush or feathered ink pen.
A Add Do this activity with a partner.
R Replace Sneak a Peek for Look, Sing for Say, Shield for Cover,
Scribe for Write and Celebrate Success for Check.
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