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

Three Wordle puzzles, each with 20 pairs of homophones and forty clues. Includes clues for each pair of homophones. Can you find them all?
Wordle is 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
Level 1
Level 2
English
Homophones, homographs & confusables
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Ww/L2.1 Spell technical words

Lists 30 pairs of common homophones (not to all be used at once!) with plenty of ideas on using them in spelling, sentence and discussion work.

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

Celebrating Diwali cleverly combines details about the Hindu festival with information on the common homophones: there – their – they’re.

Level
Level 1
English
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
Homophones, homographs & confusables
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond

An incredible collection of strategies for all levels. This huge resource is split into 3 sections.
A six page comprehensive handout on spelling techniques (E3 upwards). A ‘Spelling for Me’ worksheet where students are encouraged to try out different strategies and record their results.
A set of 19 different strategy pages (to be laminated) each with tasks for students to test out the strategy.

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
English
Ww/E1.1
Ww/E1.4
Ww/E2.1
AL Ww/E3.1 Spell common words
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Ww/L2.1 Spell technical words

These make excellent fill-ins or introductions to key vocabulary. 1 wordsearch, 1 crossword.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Rw/E3.1
Rw/L1.2
AL Ww/E3.1 Spell common words
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
Context
Construction Carpentry Plumbing

Crossword for spelling and vocabulary / prefix work.

Level
Level 1
English
Prefixes, suffixes & plurals
Rw/L1.3
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

A great selection of reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar and spelling activities (includes synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech, writing a postcard from the Moon, writing instructions, and more).

Level
Level 1
Level 2
English
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
Rt/L2.1 Trace and understand the main events of continuous descriptive, explanatory and persuasive texts
Rw/L2.1
AL Rw/L2.3 Vocabulary (language features, synonyms, formality)
Adult Literacy: writing composition (Wt)
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
AL Ww/L2.1 Spell technical words
Context
History, culture, museums, libraries

Barack Obama is a short biography with general comprehension questions, spelling, chronological and alphabetical order.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

Two classic word games with suggested answers. For individual or group challenges.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
General literacy / English
AL Ww/E3.1 Spell common words
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies

2 crosswords based on the suffixes -ent and -ant. Ideal for individual spelling and vocabulary work. If you have a smartboard they also make good group activities.

Level
Level 1
English
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies