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Word Pyramids Createwordpyramidsforeachofyourspellingwords.Beginbywri9ngthefirstle;eratthetopoftheboxinthemiddle.Underit,writethefirstandsecondle;er,againinthemiddle.
Con9nuethisun9lyouhavewri;enthewholeword.
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Name:___________________
Date:____________________
Word Pyramids Createwordpyramidsforeachofyourspellingwords.Beginbywri9ngthefirstle;eratthetopoftheboxinthemiddle.Underit,writethefirstandsecondle;er,againinthemiddle.
Con9nuethisun9lyouhavewri;enthewholeword.
ttrtritriatriantriangtriangltriangle
Name:___________________
Date:____________________
Createa‘RhymingRainStorm’withallthewordsthatrhymewitheachofyourspellingwords.Writeyourspellingwordinthecloudand‘makeitrain’allthe
rhymingwordsyoucanthingof! cat
matbatfat sat
gnatflat
hat
thatpat
Rhyming Rainstorm
Rhyming Rainstorm Createa‘RhymingRainstorm’withallthewordsthatrhymewitheachofyourspellingwords.Writeyourspellingwordinthecloudand‘makeitrain’allthe
rhymingwordsyoucanthingof! cat
matbatfat sat
gnatflat
hat
thatpat
Sign it – Spell it – Write it Usingthetablebelowofallthele;ersofthealphabetinsignlanguage,tosigneachofyourspellingwords.Signeachword,spellit,thenwriteitonthelinesbelow.
Alterna9vely,withapartner,signyourspellingwordstothemandtheywritethem
down;thenswitchortakeitinturns!
Myspellingwords
Hundreds Tens Ones
How much is it worth? Usingthechartbelow,determinehowmucheachofyourspellingwordsareworth.Writethele;ervaluethenadd
thenup.Listyourwordsfromthelowestnumbertothehighestnumber.
A B C D E
F G H I J
K L M N O
P Q R S T
U V W X Y
Z
=100
=10 =1
Theword‘triangle’wouldbe:T10+R100+1100+A1+N10+
G1+L100+E10=332Recordyourworkingthesameas
above.
Dynamite define Writeyourspellingwordsinthespellingwordcolumn.Usingadic9onary,lookupthemeaningofyourspellingwordsandwritetheirmeaninginyourownwordsinthe
defini9oncolumn.Cutoutyourwordsandmeaningsandgivethemtoyour
partnertomatchupandgluebacktogether.
DYNAMITE
SpellingWord MydefiniLon
Guess who? Usingyourwordsort,playagameofGuessWho?
Youandyourpartnerwillbothneedthesamewordsortinfrontofyou.Eachpartnerpicksoneoftheirwordsfromthesortper
round.Highlight/circlethechosenword.Beginthegamebyaskyourpartnerques9onsabouttheirwordsuchas,“IsyourwordaCVCword”,“Doesyourwordstartwithablend”,“Doesyourwordhadaprefixorsuffixaddedtoabase
word?”Thewinnerofeachroundisthepersonwhocorrectlyguesses
theirpartnersword.Recordthewordsthatyouandyourpartnerguesscorrectly
below.Alterna9vely,tomakethegameharder,chooseyourownwordsthatmatchyourrulefromtheweekbutarenotinyourwordsort.
Mywords Mypartnerswords
Blindfold Sort
Forthisgame,youwillneedyourwordsort,withnoheadings.Usingthe
wordsinyoursort,arrangethemintocategoriesyouthinktheywouldfitinto,forexampleCVC,CVVC,alwords,elwords,prefixofin-suffixofing,etc.Checkwithyourpartnerwhattheythoughtanddiscusswhytheysorted
theirwordsthisway.
**Challenge,canyouthinkofotherwordsthatfitintothesesortsorrules?Brainstormthemwithyourpartner.**
Write a Rainbow Writeeachofyourspellingwordsintherainbowsbelow.
Writeonewordperrainbow.Ineacharch,writeyourwordasmany9mesasyoucan.Writeeacharchinadifferentcolour.
Write a Rainbow Writeeachofyourspellingwordsasmany9mesasyoucanintherainbowbelow.Ineacharch,writeyourwordsasmany9mesasyoucan.Writeeach
archinadifferentcolour.Howaboutdoingittwice!
Sort Serpents Writeyourspellingwordsinthesnakes.Writethewordsthatfitthesame
ruleinthesamesnake,e.g.writeallthe-elwordstogether,allthe-alwordstogetherandallthe-ilinanothersnake.Howmany9mescanyouwriteeach
wordinthesnake?
Writeyourspellingwordsinthesnakes.Writethewordsthatfitthesamespellingpa;erninthesamesnake,e.g.writealltheCVCwordstogether,alltheCVVCwordstogetherandalltheCVCEinanothersnake.Howmany
9mescanyouwriteeachwordinthesnake?
Pattern Pythons
WriteyourspellingwordsusingtheMorseCodegridbelow.SwapwithapartnerandgetthemtodecodeyourMorsecodetospellyourwords.
Code it!
Codedword Decodedword
Forexample:triangle:
triangle
Spellingwordsrule/pa;ern
Thisac9vityiscompletedintosteps.Step1:Writeyourspellingwordsinthewordscolumnwithvowelsinonecolourandconsonantsinanother.Step2:Inthecomparecolumn,writethenumberofvowelsversesthenumberofconsonantsandgreaterthan(>),lessthan(<)orequalto(=).Forexample:
Battle of the letters Vowels VS Consonants
Wordtriangle
VowelsConsonants<,>,=3<5
Word VowelsConsonants<,>,=
Vowelsarein:Consonantsarein:
Writeyourspellingwordsintheboxesbelow,onewordperbox.Onceyouhavewri;enyourspellingwords,takenoteofthetallle;ers,short
le;ersandle;erswithatail.Drawboxesaroundyourle;ersineachwordliketheexamplebelow.
triangle
Letter Frames abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Writeyourspellingwordsasframesintheboxesbelow.Remembertowriteonlyonewordperbox.Takenoteofthetallle;ers,shortle;ersandle;ers
withatail.Writeyourspellingwordsinthewordbankbelow.Swapwithapartnersotheycanfillinthele;ersinyourframes.
triangle
Letter Frames abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
WordBank
Drawanillustra9onofyourspellingwordbelow.Youdon’tneedtobeanar9staboutit,justmakesureitiseasytounderstand.Writeyourspellingwordsinthewordbank.
Swapwithapartnerandhavethemwritewhatyourpictureisof.
Picture this!
WordBank
Jumble Jungle Writeyourspellingwordsalljumbledupinthejumblecolumn.Makeitastrickyasyoucan!Youmaychoosetowritethewordsinthewordbankorleaveblankit
tomakeitmorechallenging.Swapwithyourpartnerandseeiftheycanun-jumble
yourwords.
Jumbledwords Un-jumbledwords
Wordbank
Write it, reflect it! Writeyourwordsinalphabe9calorderintheABC
column.Then,writeyourwordsinreversealphabe9calorderintheCBAcolumn.
ABC–AlphabeLcalOrder CBA–ReverseAlphabeLcalOrder
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Scrabble Imagineyouareplayingagameofscrabble.Usingthetablebelow,recordhowmuchwouldeachofyourspellingwordsbeworthinthetable.Onawhiteboard,seeifyoucanwritethemasifplayinga
scrabblegame.
Wordtriangle
Wordvalue1+1+1+1+1+2+1+1=9
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Undercover Agent Secret Code Imagineyouareanundercoveragent.Youneedtoleaveyourspellingwordsforyourpartnerinasecretcodeforthemto
decipher.Createyourownsecretcodebelowaboveeachle;erofthealphabet.Ensurethatno2le;ersarethesame.Thecodemayincludenumbers,symbolsorsimplepictures;e.g.‘a’[email protected]
solve.Thisisyourmissionisyouchoosetoexpectit!
a b c d e f g h i
j k l m n o p q r
s t u v w x y z
CodedSpellingWord SolvedSpellingWord
Sensational Sentences Writesensa9onalsentencesusingyourspellingwords.Ensuretheymakesense,usethewordcorrectlyandarechallengingtomake
up.Forexampleifyourwordwassat,insteadof‘Thecatsatonthemat.’whynottry,‘Thegingertomcatsatonthewindowsill
lookingattherainyday.’Intheboxnexttoyoursentences,illustrateyoursentencesaoer
youwritethemall.
ImaginaLveIllustraLons
SensaLonalSentences
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Stamp It Out! Usingthele;erstamps,stampthele;ersofyourspellingwordstospellyourwords
below.
Silly Syl/la/bles Usingcolouredpencils,textas,fancypensoranyotherwri9ngmaterialtowritewithincolour,writeyourspellingwordsinthesyllablescolumnandsplitthemintotheirsyllables.Writethetotalnumberofsyllablesineachwordnexttotheminthehowmanysyllablescolumn.Onthebo;omline,writethatyouno9ceaboutyourwordswhentheyaresplitintosyllables.
Syllables Howmanysyllables?
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Usingcolouredpencils,textas,fancypensoranyotherwri9ngmaterialtowritewithincolour,writeeachofspellingwordonadifferentbus,splitthemintotheirsyllables.Writethetotalnumberofsyllablesineachword
onthelineunderthebus.
Syl/la/bles on the Bus
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Usingthegridbelowandthegridcoordinates,iden9fythecoordinatesofeachle;erandrecordthemonthewords
andcoordinatespage.
Buried Treasure!
✖A
✖B
12-11-10-9—
8—
7—
6—
5—
4—3—
2—
1—1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
✖C
✖J
✖G
✖I
✖H
✖F
✖E
✖D
T✖
✖S
R✖
✖Q
✖P
✖M
✖N
✖O
✖L
✖K
✖Z
✖Y
✖X
✖V
✖W
✖U
Coordinates Page
UsingthegridandgridcoordinatesontheCoordinatesPagetoiden9fythe
coordinatesofeachle;erandrecordthembelownexttotheword.
Buried Treasure! Words & Coordinates
Coordinates SpellingWord
Usingyourspellingwords,composeale;eroremailtoafriend.Ensurethatyourle;eroremailmakessenseandthewordsare
usedinthecorrectcontextoftheirmeaning.
You’ve got Mail!
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Eachday,writeyourwordsinthecolumns.Writeyourwordsintheirsort,forexampleifyouhader,ar,orwords,writethemundertheheadingsofer,arandor
Look - Cover - Write - Check
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Monday
Eachday,writeyourwordsinthecolumns.Writeyourwordsintheirsort,forexampleifyouhader,ar,orwords,writethemundertheheadingsofer,arandor
Look - Cover - Write - Check
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Usingyourspellingword,createaWordPowerPackbelowforeachspellingword.
Word Power Pack
Word
Synonym
DefiniLon
Sentence
Word
Synonym
DefiniLon
Sentence
Word
Synonym
DefiniLon
Sentence
Word
Synonym
DefiniLon
Sentence
Word
Synonym
DefiniLon
Sentence
Word
Synonym
DefiniLon
Sentence
Usingawhitecandle,whiteoilpastelorwhitecrayon,writeamessageonwhitescrappaperusingasmanyspellingwordsasyoucanfromyourlistand
giveittoapartner.Yourpartnerwillthenneedtowashoveryourpassagewithwatercolourpaintsotheycan
readit.Withatexta,circlethespelling
wordsinthemessage.
Hidden Message
Usingyourspellingwords,writetrueorfalsestatementstodemonstrateyourunderstandingofthewordmeaning.Then,passontoapartnerto
testtheirunderstanding.
True or False?
Statement True/False?
Use your words in a
sentence that makes sense
1
What does
your
word
mean?
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Howtoplay?• Makeapileofallthewordsfromthewordsort.• Eachplayertakesitinturnstospinthespinnerandfollowthedirec9ons
giveninthespacethespinnerlands.• Iftheplayercompletesthetaskcorrectly,theygettokeeptheword.If
theydon’t,thewordgoesbacktothebo;omofthepile.• Youkeepplayingun9lallthewordsaregone.• Theplayerwiththemostwordsattheendisthewinner.
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Createadiscussionbetweenyouandanotherperson.Tryanduseasmanywordsfromyoursortorwordsthatmatchyourruleasyoucan.Afewrules:1. Yourdialoguemustmakesense!2. Youmustusespeechbubblesforthedialogueà(hint:drawthebubbleaoerwri9ngthetext)
iMessage Me!
CreateaEmojiforeachofyourspellingwords.Itmustbeabletoshowthemeaningofyourspellingwordandtheintendedmessage.Forexample,theword‘braces’couldbeafacesmilingwithbraceslikethepicture.
Emoji Spelling?
Groupyourallthewordsinyoursortbywhethertheyarea:*Verb *Adjec9ve *Noun*Pronoun*Propernoun *Adverb *conjunc9ons
Grab and Groups
Writeoutallthewordsinyoursortinyourverybest
cursivehandwri9ng.abcdefg
Hero Handwriting
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