Good morning everyone,<\/p>\n
I hope you are all keeping well. I will continue with our spelling advice and helpful hints today to help you support your child with spelling.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I talked a little about mnemonics and so will continue with these today.\u00a0 This is a great way to support the spelling of tricky words, words which we can find difficult to spell. I have included examples of some of these below:<\/p>\n
Some:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0S<\/strong>it\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0O<\/strong>n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0M<\/strong>y\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0E<\/strong>lephant<\/p>\n Come:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0C<\/strong>limb\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0O<\/strong>n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0M<\/strong>y\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0E<\/strong>lephant<\/p>\n Said:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0S<\/strong>am\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A<\/strong>nd\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 D<\/strong>ance<\/p>\n Because:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0B<\/strong>illy\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0E<\/strong>ats\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0C<\/strong>arrots\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0A<\/strong>nd\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0U<\/strong>sually\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0S<\/strong>ome\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0E<\/strong>ggs<\/p>\n For the next set of words pretend you are at the dentist:<\/p>\n You:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Y<\/strong>ou\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0O<\/strong>pen\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0U<\/strong>p<\/p>\n Our:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0O<\/strong>pen\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0U<\/strong>p\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0R<\/strong>ichard<\/p>\n Your:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Y<\/strong>ou\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0O<\/strong>pen\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0U<\/strong>p\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0R<\/strong>ichard<\/p>\n More mnemonics to follow tomorrow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some other strategies for supporting spelling include:<\/p>\n Does it look right?:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Write the word on a piece of paper and see if it looks right – try it another way<\/p>\n Rules:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Is there a rule you know that could help?<\/p>\n Ex:\u00a0 \u00a0 Skip+ing =\u00a0 Skipp<\/strong>ing remember to double the last letter of there is a single short vowel before it when adding on your suffix<\/p>\n Lok – looked: <\/strong>remember it’s\u00a0ed<\/strong><\/p>\n Best guess:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Have a go, underline your guess and then check it later<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tomorrow we will continue with mnemonics and move onto writing support also.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mrs Docherty<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning everyone, I hope you are all keeping well. I will continue with our spelling advice and helpful hints today to help you support your child with spelling. Yesterday I talked a little about mnemonics and so will continue with these today.\u00a0 This is a great way to support the spelling of tricky words, … Continue reading “Spelling Support Day 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6036,78,79,166,168,169,170,171],"tags":[19640,3743,29322],"class_list":["post-22353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-pages","category-primary-1","category-primary-2","category-primary-3","category-primary-4","category-primary-5","category-primary-6","category-primary-7","tag-family-learning","tag-littag","tag-parental-involvement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22380,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353\/revisions\/22380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}