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Spellamadoodle
Draw a picture in lead pencil. Write all of your spelling words
over and over again along the lines making your picture with the
words. Make sure all of the words are spelt correctly. Go over
the words with coloured fine tip pens. Fill with coloured pencils.
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Rainbow Words
Choose eight of your spelling words and write each of
them in the colours of the rainbow. Start with red,
then orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (dark blue) and
then violet (purple).
Say the word out aloud as you write it.
Challenge! Write a sentence with as many of your
spelling words in it, all in rainbow style!
raspberry apple
passionfruit lemon
mango pawpaw
orange blackberry
raspberry apple
passionfruit lemon
mango pawpaw
orange blackberry
raspberry apple
passionfruit lemon
mango pawpaw
orange blackberry
raspberry apple
passionfruit lemon
mango pawpaw
orange blackberry
raspberry apple
passionfruit lemon
mango pawpaw
orange blackberry
raspberry apple
passionfruit lemon
mango pawpaw
orange blackberry
raspberry apple
passionfruit lemon
mango pawpaw
orange blackberry
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Pictionary
With one or more people take turns to silently choose a
word from the list and to draw it for your partners to
guess. To score a point, anyone who correctly guesses the
word must also spell the word correctly out aloud. A tally
should be kept of the scores with the person with the
highest score being declared the winner after 8 words.
Answers: clemency forlorn irritable
Challenge!
Draw a whole page scene including pictures of
as many of your words as possible and see how
many of them your learning partners can find.
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Spelling Cartoon
Using as many of your spelling words as possible,
create a cartoon featuring at least two different
characters. You may draw your own characters
or add speech bubbles to a photograph or picture.
Hey Sparky, who do
you think was
responsible for gluing
our ears together?
Probably the same
person who glued my
arms to the pair of
you!
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Word Snake
Using any of your list words create the longest word
snake possible. Each word must begin with the last
letter of the previous word. You can add suffixes or
prefixes to any of your words. Decorate your snake.
Challenge! Can you create a word snake with more
than 10 words?
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Expressive Words
Choose 5 list words and illustrate them expressively to reflect
their meaning. Use colours and shapes to help emphasis the
meaning of the word (for e.g.: red can symbolise anger, love,
danger, heat, etc.; wavy lines can symbolise peacefulness,
wandering, happiness).
e.g. overweight
Challenge! Create a picture which tells a story using
expressively illustrated words from your list.
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Mnemonics
Select five words and create a mnemonic for each of them. A
mnemonic is a memory aid: a short rhyme, phrase, visual design
or other technique for making information easier to memorize.
Use the SMASHINCOPE principles to help you.
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For example: the words knead and definitely can be learnt with these mnemonics:
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Getting Into Shape
Draw seven different shapes lightly in lead pencil, or make
shapes in Word or Publisher with the lines set to a light grey
and then print. Using coloured textas or pencils, write seven of
your spelling words inside the shapes—make sure you go right
to the edges!
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Spelling Rebus
Choose five of your spelling words and create a rebus
for each one. A rebus is a puzzle made up of pictures
made to represent syllables and words.
Example 1: H + = hear
Example 2: A more complex rebus representing the word garlic.
Challenge! Create a rebus sentence including as many
of your spelling words as you can. Ask your partner to decipher it.
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Quiz Questions
Write a quiz question for 10 of your list
words. Give your partner a list of your
words and ask them to work out the
answers. For example:
Question: Which word is a compound word, has 3
syllables, and rhymes with choux, shoe and shoo?
Answer: honeydew Question: Which word is a noun, is found in most
schools, and contains many items rhyming with chooks?
Answer: library Develop your art smarts by creating
your riddle using pictures and
symbols only. For example the word
peaceful could be drawn like this...
PSST!
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Fonts Ahoy!
Write all of your spelling words into a Word, Publisher
or PowerPoint document and then choose a different
font, size and colour for each word. If using Word or
Publisher print your list off, if using PowerPoint animate
your words and show your presentation to a partner.
pumpkin ghastly Wednesday
friendly wonderful
Challenge! If you’re doing a PowerPoint of your
words, record your voice saying or singing each of the words with a different accent. Choose the sound icon and then choose Record Sound
from the drop down menu. Then record the sound by pressing the red circle.
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Create Your
Own Activity!
Get your creative juices flowing with this spelling activity!
Think of an activity you already like and apply Tony Ryan’s BAR
Thinkers Key—this will help your brain to invent something new.
Below is a BAR of Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check.
New invented spelling activity:
Sneaky Peek, Sing, Shield, Scribe, Celebrate Success!
Challenge! When you have invented and trialled your new
activity, create a poster for your class explaining how the
activity can be used to learn new spelling words. Ask your
teacher to find a prominent place on the wall so that everyone
can read it.
B Bigger Write the words with an oversized writing implement
like a crayon, paintbrush or feathered ink pen.
A Add Do this activity with a partner.
R Replace Sneak a Peek for Look, Sing for Say, Shield for Cover,
Scribe for Write and Celebrate Success for Check.
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