Spelling Activities and Tips

Spelling Activities

The Premier's Spelling Bee is about engaging all students with spelling. The following document, developed by English K-6 Curriculum, contains activities that can be used in the classroom to reinforce the four forms of spelling knowledge.

 

Most of these strategies would first be modelled by the teacher, then used in guided practice for groups with similar needs, before students would be expected to use them independently.

 

Effective Classroom Practices [.pdf 139 KB]

 

The document below has been developed through suggestions from School Spelling Bee Coordinators who have previously participated in the Premier’s Spelling Bee. It contains activity ideas that can be used in the in-school phase of the competition as a way of selecting Regional representatives.

 

Spelling Activity Ideas [.pdf 15 KB]

 

Further resources relating to teaching spelling in the Classroom are available for download at the NSW Department of Education and Training Curriculum Support Website

Spelling Tips

These downloadable spelling tips to help teachers, contestants and their parents with some of the trickier aspects of spelling have been provided by Susan Butler, Editor, Macquarie Dictionary. Macquarie Dictionary provides all the word lists for the Premier's Spelling Bee.

 

• Double Letters [.pdf 15 KB]
• Silent Letters [.pdf 14 KB]
• Spelling Rules [.pdf 16 KB]
• Homophones [.pdf 16 KB]
• Ambiguous Vowels [.pdf 17 KB]
• The Indeterminate Vowel Sound [.pdf 16 KB]
• Borrowings From Other Languages [.pdf 17 KB]
• Elided Syllables [.pdf 13 KB]
• Words ending in -e [.pdf 13 KB]
• Apostrophes [.pdf 15 KB]

 

For further information concerning the 2009 Premier's Spelling Bee, please contact Chloe Hardwick-Jones, Spelling Bee Coordinator at The Arts Unit on 02 8512 1173 or email at chloe.hardwickjones@det.nsw.edu.au