ABSTRACT

This highly practical activity workbook is linked to the core text How to Manage Spelling Successfully and has been designed to support dyslexic students practise the spelling strategies and methods recommended in that book.

This activity book can be used separately, or as part of an integrated programme for building students' spelling skills at home or at school. Suitable for mainstream classrooms, pupils undertaking additional literacy support in small groups, and for one-to-one teaching of individuals with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, this excellent resource contains activities suitable for use at different stages of development, and for use with adults as well as school students.

Each section contains a range of multi-sensory activities, including word searches, simple crossword puzzles and dictation exercises. This is an essential classroom companion for anyone helping struggling spellers.

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Introduction

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Differentiated activities

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Who can use these resources?

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The aims of this chapter

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SHORT VOWELS

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Short vowel sound /ă/

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The proof-reading C-O-P-S

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short vowel sound /ĕ/

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short vowel sound /ĭ/

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short vowel sound /ŏ/

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short vowel sound /ŭ/

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LONG VOWELS

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‘b’ saying /b/

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‘c’ saying /k/

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‘d’ saying /d/

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‘f ’ saying /f/

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'g’ saying /g/

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‘h’ saying /h/

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‘j’ saying /j/

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‘k’ saying /k/

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‘l’ saying /l/

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‘m’ saying /m/

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‘n’ saying /n/

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‘p’ saying /p/

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‘qu’ saying /kw/

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‘r’ saying /r/

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‘s’ saying /s/

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‘t’ saying /t/

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‘v’ saying /v/

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‘w’ saying /w/

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‘x’ saying /ks/ or /gz/

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‘y’ saying /y/, /ı¯ / or /e¯ /

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‘z’ saying /z/

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CONSONANT DIGRAPHS

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‘ch’ saying /ch/

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‘sh’ saying /sh/

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‘th’ saying /th/

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‘g’ or ‘dg’ saying /j/

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CONSONANT BLENDS

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LONG VOWELS AND MAGIC ‘E’

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Long /e¯/ sound and Magic ‘e’

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Long /ı¯/ sound and Magic ‘e’

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Long /o¯/ sound and Magic ‘e’

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Long /u¯/ sound and Magic ‘e’

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VOWELS WITH THE CONSONANT ‘R’

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VOWEL DIGRAPHS

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‘ay’ saying /a¯/

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‘ea’ saying /e¯/

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‘igh’ saying /i/

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‘oa’ saying /o¯/

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DIPHTHONGS

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‘oo’ saying /ooˇ/

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‘ow’ saying /ow/

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‘oy’ saying /oy/

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Crossword Puzzle Solutions

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How to Manage Syllables Successfully

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Keywords

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How you can use these activities

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How to count syllables orally

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How to code vowels and consonants

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How to identify consonant blend words

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How to identify consonant digraph words

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How to identify assimilation words

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How to divide words into syllables

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The six major types of syllables

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PREFIXES

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SUFFIXES

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Revision and attainment tests

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The super sleuth’s syllable challenge

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How to manage plurals painlessly

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Differentiated activities

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How you can use these activities

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The odd squad of plurals poem

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Rule Six: nouns that are always plural

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Rule Eight: plurals of compound nouns

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Rule Nine: plurals of Old English words

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Revision tests

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How to manage homophones happily

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Differentiated activities

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How you can use these activities

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allowed/aloud

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ate/eight

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bean/been

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blew/blue

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cent/scent/sent

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cereal/ serial

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dear/deer

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flour/flower

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grate/great

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hair/hare

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hear/here

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heard/herd

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hole/whole

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made/maid

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meat/meet

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new/knew

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no/know

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of/ off

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won

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pair/pare/pear

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peace/piece

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plain/plane

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principal/principle

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quiet/quite

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rains/reigns/reins

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right/ rite /wright/write

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sea/see

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some/sum

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their/there/they’re

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to/too/two

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threw/through

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weather/whether

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which/witch

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Crossword Puzzle Solutions

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Revision test

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Answers to revision tests

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Keywords

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Differentiated activities

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How you can use these activities

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ROOT WORDS

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Using Latin root words

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Using Greek root words

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PREFIXES

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Checklist of useful Latin prefixes

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Checklist of useful Greek prefixes

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Using Greek prefixes

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‘well’

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‘ill’

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‘im’, ‘in’, ‘ir’

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SUFFIXES

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Using Latin and French suffixes

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Checklist of useful Greek suffixes

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Using Greek and Anglo-Saxon suffixes

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Suffixes beginning with a vowel

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Suffixes beginning with a consonant

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Words ending in ‘e’

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‘able’, ‘ade’, ‘ous’

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Words ending in ‘y’

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‘ing’, ‘ish’, ‘ist’

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Answers to activities and quizzes