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22. DRAGON’S DINNER

Pupils have counters, one for each of their target words. They take turns in spelling. If they make a

misspelling, they lose a counter to the dragon. The dragon can be a pupil with a list of the words or all

other pupils can have a list to check the words and the dragon can be a picture/model. How much dinner

does the dragon get?

23. FIND THE WORD

This is a good activity for younger pupils who are learning how to spell High Frequency words. Each pair

is given a highlighter pen and piece of text, for example a newspaper or advert. The teacher writes a

few common words on the blackboard and the children highlight as many as they can find. Younger

children may need to be given a highlighter each or you may ask that each common word is highlighted

using a different colour.

This activity can also be used to highlight a spelling pattern in older classes eg ‘ight’ , ‘ei/ie’.

Once highlighted, the words could be written in a list to share with another group.

24. ELKONIN BOXES

Elkonin boxes are a series of boxes used to allow children the opportunity to investigate and record

each sound/phoneme in a word. This is done after looking at the word, reading it aloud and thinking

about structure to separate single and joined phonemes e.g. sheep

Teachers must remember that Elkonin Boxes are used only for words that can be sounded phonetically.

They are NOT used for all common/tricky words.

25. THE WEAKEST LINK?

Just like the TV programme. Pupils work in groups of 4-8. Each person has a whiteboard. The ‘presenter’

has a list of words and displays a timer. Each person is asked a spelling in turn. They either write the

spelling on the whiteboard or say it aloud. At the end of each ‘round’ each person uses their whiteboard

to ‘vote’ off who they think is the ‘weakest link’ and a new round begins with a shorter time limit.

26. SPELL, SPELL, TRADE

Each member of the group has one word on a piece of paper. The walk about until they meet another

member of their group. They then ask each other to spell their word. If they get it wrong, they are

shown the word and then try again. Once they have both spelled the word, they trade and go off to

meet another person. All groups can play this at the same time just by colour coding the paper ie the

pupils with the yellow cards only meet up with yellow cards.

INTERACTIVE WEBSITES

Interactive free website

this is a great website! Pupils type in the words they

are learning. The site recognises any misspellings and asks them to check and re-enter. The pupils

can choose whether to be taught how to spell the word or a choice of several games all using their

own words! It’s excellent!

Another interactive website is

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