AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

Adult Literacy Core Curriculum (DfES 2001): writing / word focus / spelling

Ww/L1.1 Spell correctly words used most often in work, studies and daily life

  • Know and apply multi-sensory (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, use of analogies and mnemonics) to help learn and remember correct spellings
  • Know and apply some spelling rules to help attempt and check spellings
  • Understand that the spelling of homophones is related to meaning and grammar
  • Use suffixes and prefixes to build word families and extend their range of words with accurate spelling

There their dominoes

Written for E3-L1 ESOL students but equally suitable for literacy students. Match the two parts together to complete the phrase.

Level
Level 1
Entry Level 3
English
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Ww/E3.1 Spell common words
ESOL
ESOL Ww/L1.1a Apply knowledge about vocabulary to aid accurate spelling
ESOL Ww/E3.1a Apply spelling knowledge to a wide range of common & special-interest words

Zoe car L1 practice exam questions

L1 literacy / ESOL practice on a slightly humorous BBC News article. It covers the main areas my learners have issues with: spelling, true or false and synonyms. With answer sheet.

Level
Level 1
English
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
Adult literacy: reading comprehension (Rt)
AL Recognise and understand a range of words
ESOL
General ESOL
Context
Motor vehicles & Transport

Scan for mistakes - speed test

A timed 2-minute speed test where learners must find and circle the correct spelling (4 options are provided for each spelling).

Level
Level 1
Entry Level 3
English
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Ww/E3.1 Spell common words
ESOL
ESOL Ww/L1.1a Apply knowledge about vocabulary to aid accurate spelling
ESOL Ww/E3.1a Apply spelling knowledge to a wide range of common & special-interest words

Future road pricing 'inevitable'

Based on a 2010 BBC News article about charging motorists per mile. Includes comprehension questions, a true/false exercises and a short writing task where learners must express their own views about the article.

Level
Level 1
English
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
Adult Literacy: writing composition (Wt)
Rt/L1.3
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
Context
Motor vehicles & Transport

Facts about pancakes

A recently designed resource that I wanted to share with my fellow skillsworkshop users. I wanted something to use with my learners as a spelling lesson. I have tried to involve various activities to help motivate and keep interest whilst learning spellings.

Resource includes a cloze exercise, comprehension questions, homophones and plurals, and a final crossword to check skills.

Level
Level 1
Entry Level 3
English
Prefixes, suffixes & plurals
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
AL Ww/E3.2 Use phonic knowledge to help spelling
Homophones, homographs & confusables
Context
History, culture, museums, libraries
Catering Food Nutrition

What happens to ice falling from planes?

A comprehension activity based on a BBC 2009 news report. Comprehension questions, spelling task and vocabulary / synonym exercises.

Level
Level 1
English
Adult literacy: reading comprehension (Rt)
Adult Literacy: Reading at word level (phonics & vocabulary)
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

Homophone card game II

Homophone card game is a lovely kinaesthetic game with differentiation ideas to suit E3-L2. Match homophones to definitions as quickly as you can to be the winning group! 13 pairs of words, 26 definition cards.

Level
Level 1
Level 2
English
Homophones, homographs & confusables
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Ww/L2.1 Spell technical words

Christmas Trees

A Level 1 text with comprehension questions and lots of useful homophone / vocabulary revision.

Level
Level 1
English
Homophones, homographs & confusables
Adult literacy: reading comprehension (Rt)
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

Regular and irregular plurals with Wordle

18 words to sort according to plural spelling rules. Ideal for display on a smartboard.
Created with Wordle , a brilliant on-line, completely free word cloud creator.
See our blog articles for more Wordle teaching and learning ideas:
http://skillsworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/07/using-wordle-in-classroom.ht…

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Prefixes, suffixes & plurals
AL Ww/E3.1 Spell common words
AL Ww/E3.2 Use phonic knowledge to help spelling
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

Plurals (for Smart Notebook)

Covers both regular and irregular plurals (10).
The great thing about this activity is that it is created from a template (available in the Activity Toolkit, in the Smart Notebook Gallery) and can be quickly and easily edited to include specific spellings for your students.
See Dave’s other Notebook word games below.
Please note you must have the Smart notebook software installed on your computer in order to open, view and use this resource http://smarttech.com/

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Prefixes, suffixes & plurals
AL Ww/E3.2 Use phonic knowledge to help spelling
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
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