What can Parents Do to Help Children with Spelling?

Encourage children to write often, without censure, to different people – on cards, stationery etc.

Write to your own children.

Write notes with messages to tell them that you care when you return home way past their bedtime due to work commitments.  Send letters, postcards or emails when you are travelling. 

Write with children.

Sit at the table and write your letters or emails while the children are writing theirs. 

Read to children and encourage them to read – books, magazines, poems, newspapers etc.  Read signs on shops, read different kinds of printing.

Homework can be FUN:

1. Play Scrabble.
2. Find all the objects in your house that start with a certain letter.
3. Watch TV commercials and write down remembered words seen on the screen.
4. Play Memory
5. Use the Yellow Pages to locate certain information together.
6. How many words in a newspaper article end with, e.g. ‘tion’.
7. Play Boggle
8. How many smaller words can you make out of the letters of the word, ‘Singapore’?

*Scribbles made by young children are beginning writing!