Collect 5 to 10 words and create a short narrative with them. Seeing words in context helps you form a mental image of the correctly-spelled word.Ĭreate a story based on the words you’ve just learned, or use them to practice the one you learned a while back. Gather together newspaper clips or online content and look for spelling words you’ve learned in the previous week or two. In fact, you can incorporate spelling practice in almost everything you do! Here are some ways to do it: In order for you to truly master spelling you need to practice in a consistent yet fun manner. Spelling Knowledge Consolidation: Spelling 24/7 Once your phonological awareness is expanded through this technique, you can start practicing with games and spelling activities to consolidate that knowledge. Implementing these rules, once you know them, helps you arrive at the correct spelling of new words. Spelling patterns help you make generalized rules on how spelling works. You can learn spelling with groups of words like these:ġ) Learning words ending in –at and –an, as in the case of ‘pat’ and ‘pan’Ģ) Words with a silent E such as ‘cake’, ‘love’, ‘dove’ and ‘jove’ģ) Learning words with diphthongs, such as ‘oy’ and ‘ow’Ĥ) Learning the difference between the long and short A sounds in words like ‘hat’ and ‘safe’ This technique of word sorting can be applied to a number of spelling activities. You will be able to decipher that the correct spelling of ‘gymnastics’ is with a G and not a J, because you’ll recognize the pattern and remember the rule. Knowing these letter patterns helps you correctly guess the spelling of an unknown word when you hear it pronounced out loud. When G is followed by I or E or Y, then the sound is “soft.” When followed by A, O, or U, the G is pronounced with a “hard” sound. You can learn this sound-letter pattern with this rule: The letter G is pronounced “hard” in words such as gate, gap, goat and grow but “soft” in words such as gym and giraffe.
One such spelling pattern could be the soft and hard G.
When you truly understand spelling patterns, you will be able to apply these when spelling unknown words. You could also choose to learn a list of words where the letter K is silent, as in ‘knight’ and ‘knee.’ You might make up a list with a group of words ending in the letters –cious. Sometimes it’s pronounced with a short vowel sound (as in ‘mat’) and sometimes with a long vowel sound (as in ‘gate’), but in both cases it’s simply written as the letter ‘a.’Īnother example is grouping words by their suffixes, or other similar characteristics. Word sorting helps you develop phonemic awareness so that you can know how a sound translates into a word.įor instance, phonemic awareness lets you know that the letter A has two pronunciations. To learn difficult or hard to remember spellings you can practice word sorting. Here are some ways to spice up your spelling practice and become a Master Speller in no time. Really, it is! But if you find spelling practice boring or repetitive, it’s probably because you’re using the wrong activities.
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