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Learn about some common spelling problems and identify some of your own spelling mistakes
Look at some strategies that you can use to improve your spelling including sounding out the word, breaking the word apart, using mnemonics and creating catchphrases
Test your spelling of some commonly misspelt words
Here is a list of strategies that are useful to help youremember the spellings of long or tricky words.
In this unit we will look at strategies 1–5.
1. sounding out the word2. breaking the word apart3. using mnemonics4. study, cover, write, check5. creating catchphrases6. finding words within words7. creating mental pictures8. looking for letter patterns
Press the play button to listen to five words. Can you spell them?
What are the silent letters in these words?
Words with silent letters can be really difficult to spell.Try slowly sounding out each of these words, deliberately mispronouncing them by saying the silent letters.