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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 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
Can you create word families for the words below?
medicine vegetable social
popular decide science
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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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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
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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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?