TERM
INDEPENDENT ACTIVITIES - Spelling Strategies
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VISUAL
PHONOLOGICAL
Count the syllables for each word.
E.g.
How many letters in each word?
How many vowels & consonants?
never = 2 syllables
Rhyming words
Put your words into alphabetical order.
Can you make a rhyming chain with your
words?
E.g. tea, never, house, sheep
drip
trip
strip
grip tip
slip
Chunk words 2 ways to show the combinations
of common letter patterns.
E.g.
•
•
•
•
house
never
sheep
tea
PREFIX
ROOT WORD
tele
phone
SUFFIX
Adding suffixes (common letter patterns added
to the end of your word)
-s
E.g.
-ing
-ed
-er
-tion
drip
drips drigging drigged dripper
Make your words into a Giddy Grid:
Find out if your words are a:
verb
telephone
1. Highlight the vowels: telephone
2. Coloured chunking:
Chunk your words to show:
E.g. telephone =
9 L (letters)
4 V (vowels)
5 C (consonants)
nev - er
E.g.
MORPHEMIC
noun
adjective
adverb
pronoun
E.g. drip = noun & verb
telephone
For extra credit find out the origins of any of your words.
EG: telephone = tele + phone
<^reefe "tele" (dlztai^ce)
ETYMOLOGICAL
<^reefe "-phoi^o" (sound)
HINT
use an Etymological
computer!!
Dictionary
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