Listen to your teacher or another student say a word. Take turns asking questions about the spelling like those in the box below until you have spelt the whole word correctly. You get one point for each question you ask that no one has asked about that word before. You get five points if you can spell the whole word, but lose five points if you try to spell the whole word but spell it wrongly.
| Suggested questions about spelling How many letters are there? How many As/ Bs/ …s are there? Is the first letter M/ N/ …? Is the second letter O/ P/…? Is the third letter Q/ R/ S/…? Is the fourth letter T/ U/…? Is the fifth letter V/ W/ X/…? Is the …th letter Y/ Z/…? Suggested answers There are two letters/ three letters/ … letters. There are no/ two/ three/ … As/ Bs/ …s. There is one C/ D/ …. Yes it is. – No, it isn’t. |
When your teacher stops you, ask about any words below you can’t pronounce, you don’t understand, etc.
Play the same game, but this time without hearing the word before you start asking questions about the spelling. You get one point for each new question, or five points if you can correctly spell and pronounce the word.
Do the same with your own ideas for words.
Words to answer questions about the spelling of
- August
- Australia
- badminton
- baseball
- basketball
- bathroom
- bedroom
- bees
- bicycles
- buses
- cars
- butterflies
- cats
- cockroaches
- coffee
- crayons
- December
- doll
- ducks
- erasers
- February
- garage
- hamburger
- horses
- January
- Japan
- juice
- June
- kite
- marbles
- mosquitoes
- motorbikes
- noodles
- November
- October
- pizza
- September
- snakes
- spring rolls
- swimming
- table
- Taiwan
- television
- tennis
- thirsty
- toothbrush
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