How to be Brilliant at Spelling: How to be Brilliant at Spelling

By Irene Yates

These activities will stimulate children's interest in language and how it works and help them to become confident and positive spellers. The activities include: learning the vowels and consonants; the four step method; spotting the mistake; 'y' for 'i' and 'ee'; regular and irregular plurals; growing new words from roots; spelling puzzling w-words; learning the 'ough' pattern.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliant Publications
• Release date: Sep 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9780857475459

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Title Page

HOW TO BE BRILLIANT AT SPELLING

Irene Yates

Publisher Information

Originally published by

Brilliant Publications

Unit 10, Sparrow Hall Farm, Edlesborough, Dunstable, Beds., UK, LU6 2ES

www.brilliantpublications.co.uk

Digital version converted and published in 2011 by

Andrews UK Limited

www.andrewsuk.com

Written by Irene Yates

Illustrated by Kate Ford

© Irene Yates 1995

First published in 1995

Reprinted in 1997, 1999, 2003

The right of Irene Yates to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Certain indicated sections may be printed/photocopied by individual teachers for class use, without permission from the publisher and without declaration to the publishers Licensing Society. The materials may not be reproduced in any other form or for any other purpose without the prior permission of the publisher.

Introduction

Strong visual perception, visual memory and recall, well-developed auditory discrimination and auditory memory are necessary for good spelling.

Positive and practical encouragement, workable strategies and systematic teaching will develop these skills in all children. In turn, the skills will lead them towards spelling confidence.

There is a proven link between handwriting and spelling. A child is helped to spell a word correctly when the handwriting flows. Cursive writing is much more valuable for spelling than printing where the child forms each letter separately, taking the pencil from the paper for each one. Regular handwriting lessons will help children with letter sequencing.

‘Copying’ a word is not a good idea since children tend to look at a letter, write it, then go back to look at the next letter, write that, go back to look at the next, etc. It is much better to break the word into syllables or clusters of letters and write each one as a unit, covering the original word. In this way the child will develop visual/auditory memory and recall.

Spelling rules which are most useful at Key Stage 2 are included in this book.

A planned and structured course of spelling instruction can stimulate children’s interest in language and how it works. They are often intrigued by the origins of words and the reasons why they are spelled the way they are. This kind of information helps them, in turn, to become confident and positive spellers.

Links to the National Curriculum

The activities in How to be Brilliant at Spelling allow children to have opportunities to:

2 Key skills

a plan, draft and improve their work. They should be taught to:

• proof read - check the draft for spelling errors, omissions and repetitions.

d in spelling, accumulate a bank of words that they can spell correctly, and to check spellings and meanings of words, using dictionaries where appropriate.

They should be taught:

• the meaning, use and spelling