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 Are there two/ three/ four/… letters? Are there any As/ Bs/ …s? Is there one C/ D/…? Are there two Es/ Fs/ Gs/…s? Are there three Hs/ Is/ Js/…s? Are there… Ks/ Ls/ …s? 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/…? Is the spelling…? Suggested answers Yes, there are. – No, there aren’t. Yes, there is. – No, there isn’t. Yes, it is. – No, it isn’t. |
When your teacher stops you, ask about any words below that 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
- bees
- car
- butterflies
- cats
- cockroaches
- coffee
- crayons
- December
- doll
- ducks
- erasers
- February
- hamburger
- horses
- January
- Japan
- juice
- June
- kite
- marbles
- mosquitoes
- noodles
- November
- October
- pizza
- September
- snakes
- spring rolls
- swimming
- table
- Taiwan
- tennis
- watermelons
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