How can you help your grandchild in spelling:
 
Say speech rhymes and tongue twister together.

Play “detective games with words.  Ask your grandchild to be a detective and find:

Words that rhyme e.g. can, fan, man, tam

Words that begin with the same sound e.g. sun, sausage, sea.

Words that end with the same sound e.g. hat, street

Little words in big words, e.g. “am” in “jam”

Words that sound the same but are spelt differently e.g. ate-eight, to-two-too, their-there.

Play word games that focus on sounds of words e.g. Junior Scrabble, Boggle, Word Snap, Wonder Words, Junior Crosswords, I Spy, and Hangman.

Encourage your grandchild to write words that start with a particular sound.

Encourage your grandchild to write words with three letters, five letters, and so on.

Try to make spelling activities enjoyable.

Encourage your grandchild to “have a go at spelling words.

Encourage your grandchild to “sound out” words e.g. h-i-t-,s-a-n-d.

Ask your grandchild to write words that are not easily “sounded out” e.g. home, watch, after.

Encourage your grandchild to develop memory tricks such as a “piece of pie”, “hear with your ear”.

Encourage your grandchild to use the “look, say, cover, write, check: method to spell a variety of words, for example, ask your grandchild to:

Look closely at the word

Say the word and then

Cover it

Write the words and then

Check to see if it is correct!

Show your grandchild how to use dictionaries, encyclopaedias and thesauruses.

Provide positive feedback when your grandchild attempts to spell a word or spells a word correctly