Term 3 Spelling Contract



Word Study

|[pic] |Every fortnight, we get new spelling or vocabulary words. |

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| |You will practise the spelling of your words with 5 points worth of activities. Some activities are |

| |worth 2 points! |

| |( your activities as you complete them. |

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| |After two weeks, we will have a spelling and vocab test. |

| |Weeks 1-2 |Weeks 3-4 |Weeks 5-6 |Weeks 7-8 |Weeks 9-10 |

|1 POINT activities: |

|Alphabetical OR Reverse Alphabetical | | | | | |

|Backwards | | | | | |

|Battleship Vocab | | | | | |

|Colour Vowels | | | | | |

|Cursive or Word Art | | | | | |

|Down Under | | | | | |

|Flashcards | | | | | |

|Goofy Hand | | | | | |

|Hangman | | | | | |

|Jumble | | | | | |

|Jumble Decode | | | | | |

|Look Cover Write Check | | | | | |

|Mirror Writing | | | | | |

|Pyramids | | | | | |

|Scrabble | | | | | |

|Stencil Art | | | | | |

|Three colours | | | | | |

|Visual Words | | | | | |

|2 POINT activities |

|Acrostic | | | | | |

|Anagrams | | | | | |

|Comics | | | | | |

|Create a Find a Word or Crossword | | | | | |

|Jeopardy | | | | | |

|Secret Agent Decode | | | | | |

|Secret Agent Encode | | | | | |

|Sentences | | | | | |

|Small Words | | | | | |

|Solve a Find a Word or Crossword | | | | | |

|POINTS TOTAL | | | | | |

|Teacher Check: | | | | | |

Word Study Activities

These activities are designed to help you learn new words.

|Acrostic |Down Under |Look Cover Write Check |

|Adelaide |Write all of your words upside down (and don’t cheat |For all of your words. |

|Pineapple |by turning the page around!) |First, look at the word, cover it with your hand, and|

|Parsnip | |then try to write it without cheating. If you |

|Letter | |misspell it, try again. |

|Earth | | |

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|Write them vertically and think of words that start | | |

|with the same letter to make them into an acrostic | | |

|poem. | | |

|Jeopardy |Sentences |Comics |

|Write a question for which your vocab word is the |Write sentences including your vocab words that show |Draw a one-frame picture or comic which shows the |

|answer; e.g. Question: “What animal lives in the |the meaning. Underline the vocab words. You can have |meaning of your word: e.g. |

|jungle and climbs trees using its tail?” Answer: |more than one word in a sentence. |hilarious [pic] innocent [pic] |

|Monkey. | | |

|Alphabetical Order |Goofy Hand |Small Words |

|Arrange all words in alphabetical order. Do not do in|If you’re right handed, write all of your words with |Find small words in your list words with no jumbling,|

|the same fortnight as reverse alphabetical order. |your left hand. If you’re left handed, use your right|eg. ‘frightened’ … ‘fright’, ‘ten’, ‘right’ |

| |hand. | |

|Three Colours |Backwards |Scrabble |

|Write all your words three times, each time a |Write all of your words backwards. |Arrange your words like a scrabble game or a |

|different colour. | |crossword, overlapping horizontally and vertically. |

|Colour Vowels |Reverse Alphabetical Order |Stencil Art, Cursive or Word Art |

|Write all of your list words, but write all the |Arrange all words in reverse alphabetical order. Do |Write all of your words in fancy lettering: you can |

|vowels in a separate colour for each (i.e. all “a’s”|not do in the same fortnight as alphabetical order. |create the lettering style yourself, use a stencil, |

|as red, all “e’s” as blue, all “o’s” as yellow …) | |or you can copy/trace one of the styles in the |

| | |Alphabet Sampler. |

|Mirror Writing |Pyramids |Visual Words |

|[pic]Write all of your words in mirror writing (i.e. |Draw your words as pyramids: |Draw all of your words visually, that is, represented|

|back to front) | |as pictures. For example: |

| | |“St(r” |

| |Hangman |Flashcards |

|Do these activities with a mate |Play games of hangman with a friend, using your vocab|Test your knowledge of the vocab’s meanings with a |

| |words. |mate or by yourself using flashcards. |

|Create a Find a Word or Crossword |Solve a Find a Word or Crossword |Battleship Vocab |

|Create a word search for your friend to solve. |Sometimes the teacher will give you a word search; or|Play Battleship Vocab with a mate. It’s the same as |

| |solve one your friend has made! |Battleship but you use 5 vocab words as your ships. |

|Secret Agent Encode |Secret Agent Decode |Jumble |

|Write your vocab words in a secret code: either use a|After a friend has encoded their vocab words, using |Jumble your vocab words. |

|simple one like A=1, B=2 etc. Or A=Z, B=Y; look at |their code, decode them into your classwork book. |Jumble Decode |

|the code samplers; or create your own. | |Decode the words your friend has jumbled. |



Battleship Vocab

ME! |A |B |C |D |E |F |G |H |I |J |K |L | |THE ENEMY! |A |B |C |D |E |F |G |H |I |J |K |L | |1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Battleship Vocab

ME! |A |B |C |D |E |F |G |H |I |J |K |L | |THE ENEMY! |A |B |C |D |E |F |G |H |I |J |K |L | |1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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