Spelltrack Workbook

Spelling Activities for Key Stages 1 and 2

Laura Cryer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781843120001
• eBook ISBN: 9781134004850
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Spelltrack is a practical approach to spelling, developed to help children who have specific difficulties with phoneme awareness, segmenting, blending and phoneme-letter correspondences. It helps to maintain a systematic progression through the process of learning to read and spell.

This book presents activities using tracking techniques to help those learners who have particular difficulty in memorizing high frequency words. By circling (tracking) each letter in one continuous movement, at the same time as saying the letter name, the learner is using visual and kinesthetic senses as well as learning the phonic components of the word. Writing out the spelling from memory, saying the letter names or mnemonic as he or she does so, provides reinforcement of correct letter formation and good handwriting.

The workbook focuses on helping children to learn 'tricky' words that are not phonically regular. Words in common everyday sequences have been included too, to give learners confidence with these words as quickly as possible.

Using Spelltrack activities can help children to scan a line of type effectively, improving reading, letter recognition and discrimination skills; correct problems of left-to-right directionality, omissions and reversals; improve visual recognition, matching and selecting; improve graphic knowledge and phoneme/graphic correspondence; work on fine motor control; consolidate phonic skills and early spelling strategies; and learn proofreading skills.

PART 1:

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2

Track the Word

Name ____________		Date ____________
all	o e a f j l p l	____________
and	d a c m n u d g	____________
are	a e o u r n c e	____________
at	p d a b t r n u	____________

I can read and spell all the words on this page

Name ____________		Date ____________
cat	c e o i a b l t	____________
for	v f t h e o r n s	____________
he	e h t l c o e a p	____________
in	n l j u i m w u n	____________

I can read and spell all the words on this page

Name ____________		Date ____________
is	i a g c l j s z	____________
of	a d c o j k f l v	____________
on	a p o s d n u m	____________
said	s z w a o i e d p b	____________

I can read and spell all the words on this page

Name ____________		Date ____________
the	t f l h j o w e o	____________
they	r l t j h c o e j y	____________
to	h t g c u o e d	____________
was	w m n m o a z s z	____________

I can read and spell all the words on this page

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Spell Track wordlist
• Introduction
• Spell Track instructions
• Part 1: Spell Track Activities for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
• Part 2: Spell Track Activities for Year 4 and Year 5