PR-2288IRE My Spelling Workbook Teacher Guide - Book B

Additional Activities
Partner and Group Activities
Partner activities – Develops cooperation and increases knowledge of list words.
Strategy
Examples
• Make ‘What am I?’ clues.
• Children make their own read-and-draw activities to
swap with a partner.
• Jumble words and swap with a partner.
• Make yes/no questions or true/false statements
containing list words and swap with a partner.
• Word dominoes
• Make word searches or crossword puzzles on grid paper
and swap with a partner.
• Trace list words on partner’s back—partner guesses
which spelling word was traced.
• Cut pairs of list words in half and rejoin them. Children
then see if their partner can guess the words.
For example: I am round.
You can bounce me.
What am I?
A ball
For example: ‘farm’ becomes ‘armf’.
As an extra challenge, children can create
jumbled words that can be pronounced.
For example: ‘Does a fish swim in the sea?’
‘Do we drink milk?’
Word dominoes can be
made by breaking list
words in half (ones that
have a common ending or
beginning).
This can be simply done by making a grid, and inserting
the list of spelling words horizontally and vertically. Any
gaps are filled with random letters in a word search or
coloured black in a crossword.
For example: r ed b at = bed, rat
For example:
wh
sp
ip
ent
Review sample
• Guess the word – Give a partner the first letter of a word
chosen from the spelling list. The partner then has to
guess the word before the whole word is revealed, one
letter at a time.
For example, the beginning
of a game using the word
‘drink’ would look like this:
• Make a word bank following the same sound pattern
or rule as particular list words. Work as individuals,
partners, small groups or a whole class.
For example: A list of words that end in ‘old’: cold, gold,
sold, fold, told; Words that end with ‘ss’:
mess, dress, loss, cross.
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