Tongue Twister. Word Grouping. Rainbow Words. Cousin Jane s Building Brain Pathways. e.g. fiercely. Five fat fish fight fiercely.

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1 Grouping Get a friend to do this activity too, with their words. Write all of your words on coloured card, cut them out and put them into groups. You can group them by how many letters they have, the kinds of words they are (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), or how many sounds or syllables they have. Get your friend to try and work out how you have grouped them, while you try and work out how they ve grouped theirs. Tongue Twister Choose five of your words and write a tongue twister for each of them. fiercely Five fat fish fight fiercely. Challenge! Be creative and think of a different way of grouping the words put your green thinking hat on and think outside the box! Challenge! Choose your longest tongue twister and say it fast five times. Time and record how long it takes to say it. Challenge someone else to say it faster. VARK VARK Cousin Jane s Building Brain Pathways Cousin Jane says I like the tried and true method of just writing my spelling words out correctly over and over again. I know that when I repeat a word over and over again the pathways between my neurons get thicker and thicker and the correct spelling sticks in my brain. I write words out 20 times each to help me remember them. Choose 5 words from your list, and write out each word. Say the letters out aloud as you write them as this will help you memorise it. Try and get into a rhythm. Make sure you spell the words correctly or you will have the wrong spelling stuck in your brain! Rainbow s Choose eight of your spelling words and write each of them in the colours of the rainbow. Start with red, then orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (dark blue) and then violet (purple). Say the word out aloud as you write it. raspberry apple passionfruit lemon mango pawpaw orange blackberry Challenge! Write a sentence with as many of your spelling words in it, all in rainbow style! VARK VARK

2 Hopscotch s With a partner from the same spelling group, draw a hopscotch board on the pavement or basketball court with chalk with the same amount of spaces as there are letters in your focus spelling word. Write the letters of your word in the spaces. As you hop or jump each letter say them out aloud, and then say the whole word when you have jumped in each space. Take turns and repeat 5 times each. u e o m s Spelling with Einstein The famous scientist and mathematician Albert Einstein loved working with numbers! Select the five longest words from your spelling list and work out the value of each of them if: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4, y = 25, z = 26. (M) 13 + (A) 1 + (T) 20 + (H) 8 + (S) 19 = 61 Challenges! So the word maths has a value of 61. *Work out which one of your words is worth the most, and which one is worth the least. * Instead of whole numbers for the code use tenths; for a = 0.1, b = 0.2, c = 0.3, j = 1.1, k = 1.2, t = 2.0, u = 2.1, y = 2.5, z = 2.6 etc. So, the word maths now has a value of: = 6.1 VARK VARK Pattern Trains Sleuth Choose 5 list words and write a list of other words that share a common feature or pattern. You could choose letter, sound or shape patterns. Read your pattern trains out aloud. lunch Sound pattern: ch lunch, church, cheddar, chunky, cheese, chicken, choose, chuck, kitchen, hutch, much, touch, grouch... Rhyming pattern: lunch, bunch, hunch, punch, brunch, munch, crunch. Challenge! s that begin and end with l and h: lunch, leach, latch, loofah, lush. Pattern Genius: More than 20 Pattern Legend: Pattern Master: Pattern Magician: Create a word sleuth using all of your list words. Give it to someone else to work out. C E L E R Y D R A R T I C H O K R R A P P L E O R I W B E E T W O C I T R U S E T E S S N A E B S A U C E P E A B N I K R E H G Challenges! * Put some of your words backwards or diagonally on the grid. * Create a coded message with the extra letters that you fill in at the end with. VARK VARK

3 Maker Write the 5 longest words in your spelling list. From each word make as many smaller words that you can. Hint: If you individually write all the letters on pieces of card, or use SCRABBLE tiles, making new words is even easier! dragonfly drag, on, dragon, fly, dag, go, god, dog, fog, log, dry, fad, glad, load, gray, far, lard, yard, fondly, groan, etc. Rotten Apple A spelling game for two players in the same spelling group. One player chooses a word from their list and draws the correct amount of lines for the letters. They also draw an apple tree with ten apples on it. Player two must guess what the secret word is by guessing which letters are in it. If their guess is correct the letter is written in the correct place. If they are incorrect a cross is put through an apple. The game continues until either the word has been guessed correctly or all apples have been crossed out. Play 6 games. Challenge 1! How Many s Can You Make? Genius: More than 50 words Legend: More than 40 words Master: More than 25 words Magician: More than 15 words Juggler: More than 8 words Challenge 2! Can you make an anagram of the original word? An anagram is formed when you use every one of the letters in the word to form a new word or words, dragonfly = angry fold. If all ten apples are crossed out that player is a rotten apple! VARK VARK Pyramid Spelling Alphabet Soup Choose five of your spelling words and create spelling pyramids for them. Use colour to make it more memorable. List all of your spelling words in alphabetic order. A A N A N C A N C H A N C H O A N C H O R almond, boysenberry, caramel, cereal, cinnamon, combination, crumble, mandarin, nectarine, orange, tangerine, watermelon. Challenge! Create some upside down pyramids for some of your spelling words. Challenge! Can you list all of your words in alphabetic order using the 2 nd letter of each word? VARK VARK

4 Go Fish Spelling Gnilleps Spelling For this game you will need to work with a partner (from the same spelling group if you are at school). Write all of your spelling words on cards so that you have two cards for each word. Shuffle them and deal out 5 words each. Look at the words that you have in your hand and ask your partner if they have this word. If your partner does have it you must spell the word correctly without looking and if you get it right both cards belong to you and you get another turn. If your partner does not have it, pick up another card from the stack and then it is their turn. Keep playing until there are no cards left. Play three games. The person with the most pairs wins. Write all of your spelling words forwards and backwards. Read the backwards words out aloud to your partner and see if they can guess what they are. forwards monkey donkey mango backwards yeknom yeknod ognam squirrel magpie possum scissors lerriuqs eipgam mussop srossics Challenge! Can you write a sentence backwards with some of your spelling words in it? VARK VARK Getting Into Shape Consonants + Vowels Draw seven different shapes lightly in lead pencil, or make shapes in or Publisher with the lines set to a light grey and then print. Using coloured textas or pencils, write seven of your spelling words inside the shapes make sure you go right to the edges! If a consonant equals 10, and a vowel equals 5, how much are all of your spelling words worth? Which word is worth the most, and which one is worth the least? moose = = 35 panda = = 40 wombat = = 50 kangaroo = = 60 crocodile = = 70 I can t believe I am worth less than a wombat! Once you have finished give them to your partner to check. VARK VARK

5 Code Morse Code s Using the following code write ten words from your spelling list and give them to your partner to work them out. Write all of your words in Morse Code! Remember to put a couple of spaces between letters, and give to your partner to decipher. a = z, b = y, c = x, d = w,... x = c, y = b, z = a zkirxlg = apricot Challenge 1! Write a compound sentence in this code using as many of your list words as possible. Ask your partner to decipher it. Challenge 2! Create your own code with letters, numbers or symbols. Write a message to your partner including some of your list words. The word magic =. _... _. _. Challenge! Use a torch to flash the spelling of three of your words to your partner. Dots equal a short flash and dashes equal a longer flash. If you haven t got a torch use your voice to make short and long sounds, or invent another method. VARK VARK Stolen Vowels Spelling Haiku Write all of your words without their vowels. Choose three of your spelling words and write a haiku for each of them. Remember a haiku poem has a very strict pattern It has three lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, and 5 in the last line. Write your focus spelling word in colour. For example: sprgs scpn rtchk = asparagus saucepan artichoke A small silent pond Frog jumps, croaks, laughs out loudly Magpie swoops. Silence. PSST! If you are a visual learner it might help to write the word out first with the vowels in colour, and then write them a second time with the vowels missing, for example: hippopotamus hppptms Challenge! Write the first paragraph of a story using spelling words from your list without their vowels see if your partner can read it! Helping Hand It is much easier to write a haiku if you say the words out loud and clap to determine how many syllables there are. Challenge! Research the Japanese Tanka poem and create one with some of your spelling words or sing your completed haiku or tanka to a partner. VARK VARK

6 Create Your Own Activity! Get your creative juices flowing with this spelling activity! Think of an activity you already like and apply Tony Ryan s BAR Thinkers Key this will help your brain to invent something new. Below is a BAR of Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check. B Bigger Write the words with an oversized writing implement like a crayon, paintbrush or feathered ink pen. A Add Do this activity with a partner. R Replace Sneak a Peek for Look, Sing for Say, Shield for Cover, Scribe for Write and Celebrate Success for Check. New invented spelling activity: Sneaky Peek, Sing, Shield, Scribe, Celebrate Success! Challenge! When you have invented and trialled your new activity, create a poster for your class explaining how the activity can be used to learn new spelling words. Ask your teacher to find a prominent place on the wall so that everyone can read it. Spelling Snap! Getting Reading: Using some heavy paper or cardex, cut out 40 cards of the same size (or double how many words you have in your list). Write each one of your spelling words out twice on the cards make sure they are neatly and correctly spelt. Playing the Game: 1. Shuffle the cards and deal out all the cards between players (between 2 and 4). 2. Each player in turn faces one card up onto the middle stack. 3. If that card matches the previous card in any way then the player may call snap and place their hand onto the stack. The player must be able to explain what the two words have in common straight away. If the other players agree, the person who called snap keeps the cards and adds them to their hand. 4. The winner is the player with the most cards at the end of the game. They both have a double f! VARK VARK Anagrams Make an anagram of five of your spelling words. An anagram is formed when you rearrange every letter in a word to form a new word or words. biology = oily bog Make a Crossword Create a crossword using as many of your spelling words as possible. Plot the words onto 1cm graph paper with lead pencil. Place a small number in the top left hand corner of each square which contains the first letter of a word (start from the top left hand corner of the crossword and work across and down). Write clues for each word dividing them into across and down clues. Give to your partner to complete. Check out these anagrams scientist = it s nicest diarrhoea = I roared Ah! football = loft a lob PSST! If you re a hands on learner, cut out each letter of your word from a magazine, rearrange them to make a new word or words and then glue them down. Like computers? Try out this automatic anagram maker from the Internet Challenge! Write some or all of your clues using a different language. VARK VARK

7 Fibonacci Spelling The famous mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci loved working with numbers! Calculate how much 5 of your words are worth if a = $0.01 (or 1 ), b = $0.02, c = $ y = $0.25, z = $0.26. C (0.03) + O (0.15) + U (0.21) + N (0.14) + T (0.20) =? Therefore the word COUNT equals $0.73 or 73 Leo says: This method of learning to spell a word works for my brain because I am pretty maths smart, and I like solving problems. I like to think of words having a number value. When I go to spell a word I visualise the number sum and what the word adds up to in my mind. Maybe this strategy could work for you too! Challenge! Use Fibonacci s famous sequence of numbers and add the value of the words. a = 1, b = 1, c = 2, d = 3, e = 5, f = 8, g = 13, h = 21, i = 34 etc... Riddle Me Ree Create a Riddle Me Ree for three of your list words. Practice reading them out aloud and then present them to your partner using a good strong voice. Also allow your partner to read your riddles for themself as well as hearing them. My first is in king but not in queen My second is in gnocchi, but not in rice. My third is in ice but not in snow, My fourth is in afraid but not in scared. My last is in fire but not in coals, My whole is 5 letters long and is usually found with a four lettered friend. Answer: knife (don t show your partner the answers until they have worked it out for themself!). Helping Hand Support your partner with a tip-tip-tell if they do not work it out the first time. VARK VARK