Techniques for Parents to Improve Spelling at Home

The resource provides 7 fun strategies for a parent to help a child improve their spelling at home - in addition to Homework.

The document contains four sections:

1. The first section provides 7 easy and enjoyable learn-to-spell techniques.
2. The second section provides synthesis tasks - to be used once the child has learnt to spell the target words.
3. The third section provides a creative task to further concretise the newly acquired vocabulary
4. Provides a list of commonly misspelt words for parents to use if they do not already have a list to start from

How can the resource be used?

The parent could try a new technique at home each week with any spelling list. If their child’s teacher hasn’t provided them with a spelling list, a solution is to go through their child’s exercise book and find words that have been misspelt. Alternatively, the parent could use the spelling lists of most commonly misspelt words at the back of the document.