Spelling

[|**http://www.magicalspellinglimited.com/index.php**] - Magical Spelling. Sounds really quite interesting and there are several videos on Youtube to have a look at too. **~squiggle7**

__**Spelling Circle**__

This is a little game I thought up but haven't used yet so I'm hoping it will work! It can be adapted by the words that you use so that it's suitable for most ages. Get the class to stand in circle and have a bag with words in it (could be hfw or mfw or weekly spelling words). One child chooses a word from the bag and calls it out to the class. That child then says the first letter of the word, followed by the next child saying the second letter, next saying the third and so on until they get back to the child that started. So to illustrate a bit better: child 1 chooses the word people, shouts out people, P child 2: E child 3: O child 4: P child 5: L child 6: E child 7: P child 8: E child 9: O .... then repeat with next word.

My aim is to make it a bit of an ongoing competition of how many words can you spell correctly in 2 minutes.
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Love the idea squiggle - thanks :) **~jog_on**

__**Mind the Gap**__

This is somewhere in the resource bank. Basically you give the children a few letters e.g. ch_t and they need to think of letters that could go in the gap to make a word. Obviously it could link with a spelling pattern e.g. oi, so you could have that in the middle.

http://www.tes.co.uk/resources/Resource.aspx?resourceId=6967 - this is where you can find the resource. Hope it works ok! A few bits of positive feedback!

Thanks :) **~jog_on**

__**One at a time**__

This is the game where you start of with one word and must get to another by only changing one letter at a time. Basically I've made a version of it in notebook with 4- and 5- letter words. Could also be adapted to include digraphs instead of individual letters (have seen this done in reception class in my school).


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Can't take credit for this idea (belongs to a poster called dramamama69) but I found it on another site and thought I'd add it here as seemed like a very good idea:** Try speller tellers (named by my class) Make up fortune tellers - go on you remember which you move with your fingers and say pick an number and move it backwards and forwards. Get them to make one each monday for morning work. Put their 8 spellings inside and then choose 4 more challenging for the outside. Add their little anecdotes which they might want to use for the final flap and away you go. Practise with a friend - sound out/spell out the words. Keep them on your table at any moment during the day - shout speller teller and have a mad 5 minute spelling practise. Kids love it - appeals to all and hey standards rise!!!!