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Play based, hands-on activities for learning to read and spell.


5. Baking Tray Play – This involves placing some impressionable material in a baking tray such as - sand, flour, breadcrumbs, glitter, sprinkles, 100’s & 1000’s, drinking chocolate powder or jelly crystals and allow the child to trace the spelling words in the tray. If they trace it correctly (in something yummy) they may be allowed to lick their fingers!

6. Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check - After looking at the word closely, counting the letters and looking for “words in words”; encourage the child to cover it and see if they can picture it in their mind (visualizing), and then writing the word, before uncovering the word and checking if it has been memorized and spelt correctly. This strategy is known as Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check.
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