Use the gallery to teach spellings

I would love to claim this idea as my own, but it belongs to Emma Goto, a colleague of mine and an excellent Key Stage 1 practitioner (4-7year olds).

She has set up a gallery and in this gallery, she has put the alphabet as individual items. This could be found online, done using Wordart or similar or better yet, why not get the children to design the letters?

This gallery is then put into a topic or theme area. The example I am using is in an area where the children are learning all about the seaside. When the children click on each letter, the teacher has put some words in the comment boxes. These are words that are linked to their topic and will help to encourage the children to build up their online wordbank/dictionary for use throughout their topic work.Why not get the children to put the words that they find in there too? Can they find words for every letter? I am stuck when looking for an ‘x’ word related to the seaside!!

Ian Addison

Learning Platform Consultant, Hampshire

@ianaddison