Does the word have more than one meaning?
Can you use the word in a sentence?
Do you know the meaning of the word?
Do you know how to spell it?
Can you relate the word to any of your subjects?
Can you define the word to a friend?
Gumption
If you can use the word of the week in any of your lessons then you will be rewarded!
Spelling Strategies
#6 – ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ Receive Believe
#7 – Use a song to help you.
#8 – When you add ‘ing’ to a word ending in ‘e’ then you drop the
‘e’. Bake = Baking
#9 – Use basic rules to help you.
Add ‘es’ to words ending in ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘x’ or ‘z’ to make the
plural. wish → wishes
Discuss: Why is spelling words correctly important?
Your teacher will write ‘sp’ when you have made
a spelling error in your book.
Year 7 Task
Put a cross at the side of the words that are misspelled
Recieve
Believe
Piece
Greive
Grief
Wierd
Neither
Year 7 Answers
Answers
Recieve
Believe
Piece
Greive
Grief
Wierd
Neither
Year 8 Task
Add ‘ing’ to the following words and then write a sentence using that ‘ing’ word
Bake + ing =
_____________
Race + ing =
_____________
Care + ing =
_________________
Style + ing =
_________________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_____________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
Year 8 Answers
Answers
Bake + ing =
Baking
My grandma’s
house was
always full of
cakes; she was
always baking.
Race + ing =
Racing
The racing car
was a beautiful
colour.
Care + ing =
Caring
Style + ing =
Styling
Bradley was such a
caring young man.
Rylan had to visit his
styling team before
the TV show went
live.
Year 9 Task
These words have been jumbled. Can you identify what
they should be?
pityupornot
Ibutafuel
benigngin
excingit
Year 9 Answers
Answers
pityupornot = opportunity
Ibutafuel = beautiful
benigngin = beginning
excingit = exciting
Year 10 Task
They’ve misspelled their tattoos! Can you help?
Year 10 Answers
Answers
God will ‘judge’ him.
Extreme – The tattoo is!
Certainly ‘awesome’
I wouldn’t
be smiling
with this
error!
This tattoo
breaks my
‘heart’
Their ‘mother’ is very
proud. Thanks!
Leg end
springs to
mind.
I mean
‘Legend’.
I think they
mean
tomorrow!
I’ve no regerts
...... But I do
have ‘regrets’.
Remember ‘i’ before ‘e’ and
you will ‘Achieve’.
Now this is ‘Genius’.
Speechless! Someone
tell her it should be
‘pea’!
Year 11 Task
Plural endings – ies or y???
Z
M
N
B
S
S
A
M
U
F
B
E
R
R
I
E
S
I
L
P
P
L
B
A
P
Q
K
O
R
A
P
K
M
T
N
U
P
W
F
A
P
A
R
E
I
R
C
N
O
I
C
T
O
J
N
C
C
Q
A
R
R
D
X
R
E
Y
G
K
T
R
B
K
Y
D
Y
F
T
U
M
T
S
I
C
P
S
B
Y
E
T
I
B
W
A
L
P
B
R
R
I
I
U
E
H
I
O
R
N
Y
M
E
I
Y
O
R
O
H
T
R
L
E
R
S
T
O
R
I
E
S
R
S
S
I
S
Y
A
R
T
H
I
S
Is there a vowel before the 'y'?
If there is, just add 's'.
V
R
G
R
P
T
E
T
V
P
O
R
S
E
I
T
I
C
E
O
E
C
J
Q
D
I
S
P
O
A
L
K
F
F
S
Z
A
Y
S
I
Y
L
H
H
R
P
S
O
Y
T
L
E
S
E
I
N
O
P
F
T
S
B
L
R
D
F
A
H
J
K
L
L
Z
L
U
Y
H
F
R
T
H
K
O
D
W
E
Y
R
B
A
B
I
E
S
Y
A
L
E
D
O
K
L
D
S
A
F
S
J
K
A
E
D
X
Y
P
J
Y
A
U
Y
L
F
P
D
I
C
T
I
O
N
A
R
I
E
S
W
F
A
V
S
L
T
R
O
L
L
E
Y
S
M
J
S
Y
A
D
I
L
O
H
M
P
D
V
B
U
L
L
I
E
S
O
E
E
R
D
S
A
K
J
N
lady___________
baby___________
valley__________
lorry__________
trolley_________
tray___________
boy____________
family__________
essay____________
fairy_____________
Sunday___________
story_____________
berry_____________
dictionary__________
pony______________
holiday____________
spy____________
city___________
toy____________
delay__________
bully___________
survey_________
monkey_________
party___________
If there is a consonant
before the 'y' then
change the 'y' for 'ies'.
Year 11 Answers
Answers
Ladies
Babies
Lorries
Trays
Trolleys
Boys
Sundays
Ponies
Monkeys
Families
Stories
Holidays
Toys
Valleys
Essays
Berries
Spies
Delays
Fairies
Dictionaries
Cities
Bullies
Surveys
Parties