Spelling

Today we were looking at helping me out with my spelling. My spelling is fine if I learn all the words for a test, but in everyday writing I struggle.

There are some good resources for spelling on the internet. I had a look on scribd.com....here are some links. Hope they help you too ;)


http://www.scribd.com/doc/7357888/Spelling
- THIS IS AN EASY TO READ PRESENTATION


http://www.scribd.com/doc/9720230/Spelling-Rules

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17686615/SPELLING-RULE-Compound-Words

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7671143/Spelling-Rules-of-the-Past-Tense


http://www.scribd.com/doc/19010234/Support-for-Spelling
This has some good revision excercise ideas for teachers and some good rule tables. Its a long document but useful for extracting info for excerises.

One that was useful was an excerice of a poem and one had to change all the verbs into past tense and then double check by putting them in the rule tables i.e. double consonant, - add ed, etc.

http://www.spellzone.com/freeunitHomo13/quest1_p1-2/index.cfm - a little free quiz

I also played http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/ - there are a few simple games here that test your knowledge. It also reinforces what you know already. Any revision is good for cementing knowledge, it does not matter how simple it is.

English Spelling and a bit of Art

Started my English revision. My work book is English Year 6 (Rising Stars Study Guides).

Worked on the spelling stategy of "i before e except after c". There were 28 words and there were 4 exceptions to the rule:

1. seize

2. weird

3. heir

4. protein.

the others were:

priest

friend

grieve

deceit

deceitful

shield

receipt

receive

siege

mischief

achieve

niece

pier

piece

conceited

deceive

perceive

field

felief

ceiling

believe

yield

chief

brief

Out of this list the ones that dont have an ee (long e) sound were:

heir (Air)

friend (end)

mischief (if)

pier (ear)

I also wrote out all the words and used my dictionary to write out the meanings of the words.

After all that I needed an OREO and some Rooibos Tea to stay awake! HEE HEE.

Then we looked at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/read1.shtml

A summary of this is:

ENGLISH = TRICKY (Exceptions to rules)

a. Vowels (a,e,i,o,u)

b. Consonants (The rest of the alphabet)

These give you approx. 5 groups of sounds!

1. Long and short vowels (Hello, batter, digger or here, bathe, dive)

2. Two vowels together

3. Hard and soft consonants (G/J or C/S)

4. Singular or plural

5. Prefixes and suffixes

In between to help my concentration we looked at 2 short video clips of a wood sculptor and an artist who makes hand made tools.

These were really interesting and about real life working, living artists and how they work and how they live.

If you have a break between learning it helps you concentrate better than doing your learning all in one batch.

English Spelling Rules

We are busy looking for a good website for English Spelling rules. Does anyone know of a good site for Primary pupils