Learning objectives:

Children should learn:

• to be able to use existing well known mnemonics as an aid to memory for learning regularly mis-spelled words
• to invent their own mnemonics to learn particular spelling patterns
• to use mnemonics to learn irregular spelled words
• to gain an insight into how words are put together

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Suggested activities:

• Get the children to look through their writing and find words they have spelled incorrectly on a regular basis.
• Make a list of these words and devise mnemonics for them.
• Leave it a week and then let the children go into response partners to test themselves.
• Did they manage to remember them?
• Get the children to devise mnemonics for particular spelling patterns e.g. -ight words, -ough words, -ed words.
• Encourage the children to devise mnemonics for spelling lists for younger children.
• Make an anthology of their newly invented mnemonics.