1. Word Families and Other Animals
Ways of learning spellings

2. What is a word family?

3. Words that are related to each other…
Related: belonging to the same family, group or type.

4. Root word
A word family can stem from a root word. The new words aren’t always of the same word type.

5. Spelling: prefixes and suffixes
Words can be related because
of how they are written.
All these words have the suffix ‘tion’.

6. A Mnemonic is something that can be can use to remember things.
What are Mnemonics?
A Mnemonic is something that can be can use to remember things.

7. It often takes the form of a phrase, a short song, or something that is easily remembered.

8. Mnemonics can help children with spellings that they find difficult as it offers a different strategy and a way of remembering using association.

9. because
Big
Elephants
Can
Always
Understand
Small

10. is land surrounded by water
An island
is land surrounded by water

11. necessary
1 collar
2 sleeves
necessary

12. hear
You
hear
with your
ear

13. piece
A piece of
pie

14. - ould words
Could
Should
Would
O U Lovely Duck

15. There is an eight in height and weight
height & weight
There is an eight in height and weight

16. Other Strategies

17. Other Strategies WORD SEARCHES LETTER BUILDING SPELLING JENGA

18. Seek & Destroy spelling errors
To build up children’s spelling confidence they are now identifying and correcting their own mistakes.
Information on Seek and Destroy
We are now expecting the children to identify their own mistakes. We have called this Seek and Destroy.
In the past when we have corrected work, we have often written out the correct spelling for the children. They have then had to write out the corrected spelling.
The onus is now for the children to seek out their mistakes making them more responsible for correcting them. Enabling it to be more meaningful and worthwhile to them. This new initiative will help the children build up their spelling confidence.
Key Words are non-negotiable. The expectation is to spell these words, and words displayed in the classroom correctly all the time.
Increased independence with spelling should become evident. The next step in years 3 and 4 will be to use a dot in the margin opposed to a key. In years 5 and 6 a dot in the margin will be used to indicate a spelling error in the paragraph.

19. Spelling mistakes will be indicated with Sp or a either in the margin or at the end of the paragraph. Children then need to find and correct these, using a dictionary as necessary.

20. Non-negotiables
Key Words are non-negotiable. The expectation is to spell these words, and words displayed in the classroom correctly all the time.

21. Any questions?