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This document provides instructions for activities to help students learn and practice spelling words, including: 1) Recording spelling words for the week and exploring word origins and meanings. 2) Analyzing word patterns like syllables, prefixes, suffixes, and origins. 3) Practicing words through activities like sentences, partner tests, stories, and memory tricks.

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Spelling Menu

This document provides instructions for activities to help students learn and practice spelling words, including: 1) Recording spelling words for the week and exploring word origins and meanings. 2) Analyzing word patterns like syllables, prefixes, suffixes, and origins. 3) Practicing words through activities like sentences, partner tests, stories, and memory tricks.

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Spelling Menu

Record your spelling Create a THRASS tree Explore the origins of Find the meaning of each
words for this week. 10 for a minimum of 3 of your word. Are their any of your words.
altogether, including the your spelling words. particular spelling
words from Tegan. patters within your word
that lend themselves to
an origin?
e.g. chalet is French & Latin
derived. The ch is a
common French grapheme.

Looking at your words Break your words up into Break your words up Group your words based
are there any common syllables. based on their on their origin. Record
orthographic patterns phonemes. Record how any similarities you
that you notice. many graphs, digraphs, identify.
e.g. the ti in station - ti is trigraphs, quadragraphs,
commonly found in the etc.
middle of words. Remember -
BLUE = constant phoneme
RED = vowel phoneme

Put your words into Complete a partner test Can you add any prefixes Identify the base word if
sentences that show you of your spelling words. or suffixes that change possible in your spelling
understand the meanings ** Only to be done on the meaning of your words. Record how the
of each word. Fridays. word? Explain how your added prefix or suffix has
Remember - you sentence word has changed. changed the meaning of
must start with a capital your base word.
letter and end with
appropriate punctuation.

Write all of your words Write a short story that Create a memory trick to Do any of your words
twice in the neatest incorporates all of your help you remember the have any distinctive
possible handwriting you spelling words. The tricky spelling of each of your spelling patterns that
can muster. part is that your story words. remind you of other
must make sense. words?
e.g. thought, caught, fought,
etc.
Record these in your
book.

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