New Zealand Essential Spelling Words – ‘Letter Box’ Activity Sheets

A great set of 60 activity sheets to help your students learn to spell the NZ essential spelling words from lists 1-8.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by one of 8 box shapes. Your students will determine what the mystery word is by looking carefully at the size and shape of the letters. Teaching aids are included to help you teach this.

Your students can either write on the activity sheets or they can write the answer in their exercise book (questions are numbered to assist with this). If you put the sheets in a plastic sleeve and pop the answer sheet behind it, your students will be able to mark their own work ... perfect! Plus it cuts down on photocopying.

The font used is ‘NZ Basic Script’. The letter shapes are the same as those recommended in the NZ Ministry of Education Handbook – ‘Teaching Handwriting’. Each shape of the box matches the style of the letters in this font. For example, there is a ¾ height box for the letter ‘t’.

Included:
♦ List 1 – 2 worksheets
♦ List 2 – 3 worksheets
♦ List 3 – 5 worksheets
♦ List 4 – 10 worksheets
♦ List 5 – 10 worksheets
♦ List 6 – 10 worksheets
♦ List 7 – 10 worksheets
♦ List 8 – 10 worksheets
♦ Answer sheets for all worksheets
♦ Teaching aids to help explain the letter boxes to your students

Features:
♦ 10 words / boxes per worksheet
♦ Boxes are numbered 1-10
♦ Each worksheet is labelled with a list number (eg 6e)

List 8 = commonly misspelt words

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