1. VMG Spelling Challenge

2. Your mission: collect as many tricky spellings as possible from your exercise books. This could be words that you have misspelled in a lesson, or in homework, or just words that you find very tricky! When you find that you have spelled a word incorrectly, jot it down in your planner and in the space in your exercise book. Bring the list of tricky spellings to your VMG literacy Spelling Programme session.

3. Now for the challenge part: Partner up with someone from your VMG. Share a word from your tricky spellings list with each other – this means discussing what might make a particular word tricky, and how you might make it easier to remember in future. E.g. the word ‘margarine’ is tricky for some people. This is possibly because it contains a soft ‘g’ sound, like a ‘j’, which usually is spelled ‘ge’, and words with ‘ga’ make a harder sound, like garden, or gallop, or Lady Gaga. Or possibly sounds like Marge Simpson, which has an ‘e’ after the ‘g’.

4. Margarine… How can we remember it correctly? Maybe remember a saying that contains the spelling of Gaga – Lady Gaga loves margarine. Or the horse galloped into the margarine (yuk!). Or you could write/rewrite/rewrite it until your hand gets used to the feeling and your eyes get used to the shape of it. Or you could speak the word as it sounds Mar-ga-rine and emphasise the ‘ga’ sound to help you remember when writing it. Or you could use the look/discuss/cover/write/check process.

5. Move onto your next words!

6. Once you have discussed the words and come up with ways to remember their spellings, put your planners/notes aside. You are ready for The Test!

7. Write 1-5 down your white board Your partner tests you by reading out 5 of your tricky words, and you write them on a white board. You do the same to them! Swap and mark each other’s spellings, then give your results to your VMG tutor.

8. This week’s subject spellings are from Music! RHYTHM (Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving) PERFORMANCE COMPOSITION DYNAMICS UKULELE Use some of your earlier spelling tricks to learn how to spell these.

9. RHYTHM (Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving) PERFORMANCE COMPOSITION DYNAMICS UKULELE Use some of your earlier spelling tricks to learn how to spell these.