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Stage 3 Spelling Program Term 1, 2013

Overview and Rationale The spelling program integrates a range of literacy best practices and is based on the understanding that students learn effective spelling strategies when there is: Explicit and systematic teaching, modelling and assessment A daily focus on developing students skills and strategies Spelling instruction is focussed on the spelling knowledge of phonological, visual, morphemic and etymological. Regular opportunities to talk and listen, read and write Opportunities to demonstrate and reflect on their understandings and skills.
Aim of the program

To develop students spelling skills using a range of strategies. To support students to utilise effective spelling strategies in their own writing.
Outcomes

WS3.11 Spells most common words accurately and uses a range of strategies to spell unfamiliar words.
Learning Intention

Quality Teaching Focus Background Knowledge

Students will be supported to integrate new knowledge and understandings with existing knowledge.
Success Criteria (For best success, criteria should be developed in conjunction with students)

To learn and apply skills and strategies to help us improve our spelling knowledge.

Participate and contribute to group reciprocal spelling. Participate and contribute to whole class discussions about spelling words and rules. Write spelling words using Look, Cover, Write, Check. Complete spelling activities. Participate and contribute to reflections on spelling lessons.

Organisation of the Program

Explicit spelling instruction will occur during literacy sessions. Additional spelling activities will be structured into collaborative learning groups and through independent activities. However, spelling will also be systematically addressed during writing and reading lessons. Spelling lessons will follow this general format: Group reciprocal spelling for a few words selected from the weekly spelling lists. Reciprocal spelling involves collaborative discussions with peers about the meaning of new words. Students predict meanings, checking their accuracy in a dictionary and thesaurus and using the words in a sentence to demonstrate their understandings. Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings of words, similarities & strategies

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Students copy lists and look, cover write check Independent and group activities to develop meanings introduce and practice strategies and skills. Student reflection. Adding misspelt words to personal dictionary after Friday post-teaching test
Assessment

Spelling will be assessed using the following assessment strategies: Informal assessment of students writing Formal term assessment at the end and beginning of the term Weekly pre and post spelling assessments Students use of spelling strategies

Spelling Resources
www.spellingcity.com Username: S3GPS2013 Password: stage3 Weekly phonological, visual, morphemic and etymological lists have been loaded choose a free activity http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/pronunciation/pdf/exercises/schwa_exercises.pdf

Schwa poem for fun!

A curvaceous young phoneme called schwa, Said "I never feel strong. It's bizarre! I'm retiring and meek, And I always sound weak, But in frequency counts I'm the star!"

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Week 2

Phonological Knowledge /k / phoneme - ch

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 export biannual character exhibit bicycle technology extract bicolour stomach extinguish binocular orchestra exhaust bilingual choir List 2 school mechanic chemical technical ache Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Syllables Alphabetical Order spelling * List spelling words and Place phonological, Word Value segment into syllables visual, morphemic and Write ten list words e.g. tech/nol/o/gy etymological words in and calculate the value Wordsearch alphabetical order if: vowels = 5 consonants = 10

Visual Knowledge Homophones Words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings weather whether to two too

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- ex Meaning former or out of

Etymological Knowledge Number prefix- bi Latin meaning two

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2 alpine apricot balance bamboo blanch

Theme Words Weather

temperature precipitation humidity wind atmosphere

Thursday Cooperative Crossword

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Spelling Activities

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

Week 3

Phonological Knowledge /k / phoneme qu grapheme

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 transport tripod adequate translucent triangle require transmit trisect frequent transparent trident quarantine transplant trilogy inquisitive List 2 quick quit quest quite quiet Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Homophone meanings spelling * Calligrams Draw pictures to Word Sort Write selected list represent the Sort list words words in a way that difference in meanings according to the suggests their meaning between aisle and isle; number of letters they e.g. main and mane contain quick-- Homophone sentences Write sentences to illustrate meanings

Visual Knowledge Homophones Words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings aisle isle Ill main mane

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- trans Latin meaning over, across, through

Etymological Knowledge Number prefix- tri Greek meaning three

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2 bombard calendar canyon charcoal citrus

Theme Words Weather

troposphere stratosphere ozone oxygen ultra-violet

Thursday Cooperative Crossword

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Spelling Activities

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

Week 4

Phonological Knowledge /k / phoneme que grapheme

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 circumstance quadrangle critique circumnavigate quadruple discotheque circumference quadrilateral grotesque circumspect quadriplegia mystique circumlocution quadruped picturesque List 2 unique antique boutique mosque technique Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Word Building spelling * Quiz Questions Use the following list Rhyming words Write a clue or a quiz words and add prefixes Write as many rhyming question for five of and suffixes to extend words as possible for your spelling words. them: circumstance, the following list Ask a partner to solve. climate, evaporate, words: pause, check check and clerk

Visual Knowledge Homophones Words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings pause paws pores check cheque

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- circum Latin meaning around, on all sides

Etymological Knowledge Number prefixquadi Latin meaning four

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2 clerk compost coupon crumb custard

Theme Words Weather

climate conditions meteorology vapour evaporate

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Spelling Activities

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner Students test each other orally for the spelling test

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

Week 5

Phonological Knowledge /air / phoneme air grapheme

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 promote unicorn despair project unify debonair progression unanimous impairment proceed universal millionaire proclaim university questionnaire List 2 hairdresser stairway unfair repair airliner Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Synonyms spelling * Syllables Locate synonyms in Picture Words List spelling words and the thesaurus for Illustrate the segment into syllables these words: despair, differences between e.g. im/pair/ment debonair, promote, this weeks proclaim, unanimous homophones

Visual Knowledge Homophones Words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings praise preys prays rap wrap

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- pro Latin meaning for or forward

Etymological Knowledge Number prefix- uni Latin meaning one, only

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2 dally damage deduce describe dismal

Theme Words Weather

transpiration particles condensing breeze gale

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Spelling Activities

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

Week 6

Phonological Knowledge /air / phoneme ear grapheme

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 telephone forebear telepathy overbearing television tearaway teletext pallbearer telegraph leisurewear List 2 bearable rainwear swear pear tear Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Word Sort spelling * Word Ladder Sort list words Small words-Big word Select any ten spelling according to the Find as many small words to complete a number of letters they words as possible in word ladder contain tearaway these list words: e overbearing, a to rnado leisurewear

Visual Knowledge Homophones Words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings wear ware where waste waist

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- tele Greek meaning distant, far off

Etymological Knowledge Number prefixmono Greek meaning one, alone, single monochrome monocle monogram monolith monopoly

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2 dissolve dutiful elephant emblem engross

Theme Words Weather

typhoon cyclone tornado anemometer weather vane

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Spelling Activities

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

Week 7

Phonological Knowledge /air / phoneme are grapheme

Visual Knowledge schwa unstressed vowel sound er

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- auto Greek meaning self

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 administer automobile awareness remember autobiography welfare advertiser autocracy unprepared foreigner automate shareholder astronomer autograph thoroughfare List 2 parent square software glare airfare Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Schwa exercises spelling * Word Sort Discuss Schwa and Word Value Sort list words complete exercise 1 Write ten list words according to the from the following and calculate the value number of letters they site: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk if: contain /worldservice/learningengli vowels = 5 sh/pronunciation/pdf/exerci consonants = 10
ses/schwa_exercises.pdf

Etymological Knowledge Number prefixmulti Latin meaning many multiple multitude multiplicity multipurpose multistorey

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2 expiry federal flour fossil fungus

Theme Words Weather rain snowflakes sleet crystals rain gauge

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner

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Spelling Activities

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

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Week 8

Phonological Knowledge /air/ phoneme ere/eir graphemes

Visual Knowledge schwa unstressed vowel sound ar

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- chronos Greek meaning time

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 rectangular chronometer premiere popular chronicle ampere nuclear chronological compere peculiar chronology heirless spectacular chronic heirloom List 2 there anywhere elsewhere their heir Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Schwa exercises spelling * Noughts and Crosses Discuss Schwa and Write a paragraph Use spelling words complete exercise 2 Using ten spelling with the same sound from the following words, write a or visual pattern. Place site: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk paragraph missing out words on a grid with a /worldservice/learningengli the spelling words you partner 3 in a row sh/pronunciation/pdf/exerci have chosen. Ask your wins. ses/schwa_exercises.pdf popular ampere partner to complete nuclear premiere the paragraph. compere

Etymological Knowledge Number prefix- poly Greek meaning much or many polygon polysyllabic polyphonic polyester polyglot

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2 garment gnome harmony inferno lagoon

Theme Words Weather thunder expanding phenomena disturbance storm

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner

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Spelling Activities

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

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Week 9

Phonological Knowledge /eer/ phoneme eer grapheme

Visual Knowledge schwa unstressed vowel sound or

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 accelerator octagon mountaineer benefactor octave profiteer professor octogenarian domineer successor octahedron commandeer solicitor octet orienteer List 2 pioneer engineer career cheerful eerie Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Schwa Exercises spelling * Missing Letters Review schwa and Alphabetical Order Write ten list words complete the following Place phonological, with some letters exercises visual, morphemic and missing. Swap with a http://www.scribd.co etymological words in partner to fill in m/doc/107490750/Th alphabetical order missing letters. e-Schwa-My-Lesson

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- geo Greek meaning earth geology geography geothermal geometry geocentric

Etymological High Frequency Knowledge Words Number prefix- octa Premiers Spelling Bee Greek meaning eight Level 2 lethal mammal mattress mulch nostril

Theme Words Weather lightning strike electricity energy current

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Spelling Activities

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

Week 10

Phonological Knowledge /eer/ phoneme ear grapheme

Visual Knowledge schwa unstressed vowel sound ure

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 architecture decade disappearance expenditure decalitre bleary pressure decahedron clearheaded departure decametre endearment measurement decagram fearsome List 2 appear weary dreary fearful nearby Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Alphabetical Order spelling * Word Ladder Place phonological, Quiz Questions Select any ten spelling visual, morphemic and Write a clue or a quiz words to complete a etymological words in question for five of word ladder alphabetical order appear your spelling words. a Ask a partner to solve. t
i e n satellites

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- graph Greek meaning writing graphology graphic digraph biographer orthography

Etymological High Frequency Knowledge Words Number prefix- deca Premiers Spelling Bee Greek meaning ten Level 2 onion patient reptile review sensor

Theme Words Weather barometer hygrometer satellites balloons images

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner

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Spelling Activities

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

Week 11

Phonological Knowledge /j / phoneme dge grapheme

Visual Knowledge schwa unstressed vowel sound a

Morphemic Knowledge Prefix- per Latin meaning through

Each Day Mon-Thurs

List 1 among perforate acknowledge company percolate begrudge pleasant permeate abridge stomach perceive drudgery portal perennial edgewise List 2 judge bridge cartridge porridge budget Whole class discussion of spelling rules, unusual spellings etc. * Look, cover, write, check 5 dictionary definitions Daily activities plus SpellingCity free activities Whole class reflection on lesson * Monday Tuesday Wednesday Group reciprocal Wordsearch Synonyms spelling * Word Jumble Find synonyms in the Dictionary Search Select ten spelling dictionary for visual list Select ten spelling words and jumble the words. words and locate each letter. Ask your word in a dictionary. partner to correctly Write the word that spell the words you becomes before and have chosen. after your word

Etymological Knowledge Number prefixnumerus Latin meaning number numeral numeration enumerate innumerable numerate

High Frequency Words Premiers Spelling Bee Level 2/3 smuggle velvet activist advisory affluent

Theme Words Weather

forecaster drought monsoon deluge heat wave

Thursday Cooperative Crossword Test you partner

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Spelling Activities

Friday Spelling Test Dictation Boggle Add spelling errors to personal dictionary

School Focuses: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Engagement and Attainment, Staff leadership and Management

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