Additional Activities Individual Activities Word Study – Useful for developing familiarity with the list words. Strategy Examples • Write the base words for the list words.
For example: the base word for ‘sensible’ is ‘sense’.
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• Hidden words – using the letters in a word to make as many new words as possible.
For example: neighbours – house, neigh, nigh, bin, rough, bore.
• Rank words in level of difficulty in learning to spell.
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• Write a paragraph using a set number of list words.
For example: use ‘grapes’, ‘picnic’ and ‘shade’ in a paragraph; When we got to the park, we sat in the shade. We spread out a blanket and ate our picnic. The grapes were my favourite food.
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For example: ‘audience’ comes from a Latin word ‘audire’, which means ‘to hear’.
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• Study and find word origins for list words.
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• Write anagrams of list words or search for any others.
For example: ‘nap’ is an anagram of ‘pan’ ‘dance’ is an anagram of ‘caned’.
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• Write the list words as plurals.
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For example: bear/bear rock/rock
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• Find words which have homographs (words which look the same, but have different meanings).
Discuss exceptions to the rule of simply adding ‘s’; for example: sheep, children.
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• Discuss adding ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ and how this changes the tense of words.
For example: ‘jumped’ and ‘jumping’ – ‘jumped’ is past tense, ‘jumping’ is present tense
• Discover common prefixes and suffixes for words.
For example: un-, dis-, -ly, -ment
• Missing vowels – write list words with missing vowels. Students guess which words they are.
For example: m_ss_ng = missing
• Students write their words as a rebus.
For example,
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+ lace = shoelace
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