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Spelling StrategiesYear 7 Spelling Starters

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Contents

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Breaking a word into affixes

Word families

Words within words

Etymology

Analogy

Word webs

Summary activity

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Breaking a word into affixes

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Breaking words apart

un grace ful ly

ungracefully

root wordprefix suffix suffix

It can also be helpful to deliberately mispronounce a word you have trouble spelling, so that you emphasize each syllable.

What technique could I use to remember how to spell the

word ungracefully?

You could break the word down into prefixes and

suffixes:

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Breaking words apart

Identify the prefixes, suffixes and root words in the words below:

unhappiness

unemployment

unrecognizable

recyclable

disagreement

replaying

unwanted

un-happy-ness

un-employ-ment

un-recognize-able

re-cycle-able

dis-agree-ment

re-play-ing

un-want-ed

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Word families

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Word families

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Word families

Can you create word families for the words below?

medicine vegetable social

popular decide science

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Words within words

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Words within words

favourite

separate

business

parliament

definite

capacity

conscience

cupboard

Which words can you find within the words below?

our

a rat

bus in sin

i am

fin

cap a city

con science

cup board

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Etymology

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Etymology

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Analogy

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Visual strategies for learning spellings

To remember how to spell the word bright, you could think about letter pattern links.

bright

right

light

night

sight

might

Many of the words that rhyme with bright end with the same letters. How many can you think of?

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Word webs

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Word webs

biogeo

logy

graphy

phonetele

micro

scope

How many words can you make by mixing and matching the cards below?

graph

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Word webs

trustee

mistrust

trusting

distrust

Often, several words can be made from the same root.Which root word do the words below share?

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Word webs

Create your own word web for the root word like.

like

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Mnemonics and silent letters

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Mnemonics

Sayings, rhymes and pictures can help you remember spellings.

Like, ‘I before E except after C’!

Can you tell which word Megan is trying to remember?

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants!

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Silent letters

Knight

Knife

Plumber

Raspberry

Debt

Press play to hear five words. Can you spell them?

Words with silent letters can be really difficult to spell.Can you think of any mnemonics to help you remember the words above?

What are the silent letters in these words?

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Summary activity

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Summary activity