Sunday 10 August 2014

Spelling Homework suggestions

Here are some suggestions for ways you can practice your spelling words:

* Make some playdough. Roll the playdough into snakes and then form the snakes into the words from your list (this helps us 'see' what words look like)
* Make up two sentence rhymes with your words
eg. The cat from Spain
Flew an aeroplane (taken from My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes)
(this helps us to 'hear' what a word sounds like)
* Look each word up in a dictionary to find out what it means, then write it into a good sentence
(this helps us to know what a word means)

Some students may like to practise words by repeatedly writing them (rote learning) but not all students find this helpful. These are just a few other suggestions to help choose different ways of learning spelling homework.

Have fun! 


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