Are you a teacher looking for KS2 spelling activities to use with your class? Well, you’re in luck! We’ve compiled a list of loads of fun ways to help your KS2 children embed tricky spelling words.
Giving children the letters from their chosen spelling words and challenging them to arrange them into the correct order is a great way to help familiarise them with the spellings. Depending on whether they are in lower KS2 or upper KS2, you may wish to only provide the letters contained in the word, or a range of letters the children must pick from. Here are a couple of fun ways to do this:
Many KS2 children find it very helpful to have visual guides or other devices to help them with tricky spellings and homophones, such as this visual guide to the ever-problematic ‘there, they’re, their’:
Another great spelling activity to help make tricky words memorable is to create mnemonics. Some mnemonics take each letter in a word and assign a new word to each letter to make the spelling more memorable. For example:
Why not challenge your class to create their own mnemonics to help them remember words they are struggling with?
Here are some other helpful ways of remembering some of those commonly misspelled words:
Playing word games is a great KS2 spelling activity that will have them reinforcing words without them even realising they are working!
Spelling Art: draw an overlapping wiggly line with space in each section you create. Choose one word for each sentence and challenge children to write the word as many times as they can within each section.
Word rank: from a range of spelling words, ask children to rank them from what they think are the easiest to spell to the hardest. Try to identify why the words at the bottom are hardest and work on these first. Children could write them out, identifying the trickiest letters and making sure to write these letters larger than the others.
Silly sentences: make up silly sentences that use all the words from a given list of spellings. What’s the silliest sentence you can make?!
If you’re looking for more English resources for your KS2 classroom, check out our full catalogue of KS2 English lesson planning packs, or English FreeBees.
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