Six Daily Activities. 30 – 45 minutes daily. The Speedy Six ! This is a stand alone Spelling Program for primary classrooms. All you need are the Spelling Clouds. These have nothing to do with Code or Reading Level – the whole class does this together. Encourage collaborative learning. Incorporates fast mapping.

Say a word, the students use the SSP Spelling Strategy, up to the lines and numbers. Stop, discuss. Agree on lines. Then make choices. Discuss. Look at Clouds. Put in a sentence. Change the tense. Is it meaningful to you?

Write a word on the board. Tell the students what is it. Put it in a sentence. Visualise. What does it mean? Is it meaningful to you? They use Duck Hands to work out the speech sounds. Write the word on their board. Underline the sound pics and number. Discuss. (they could then put into a sentence, and change the tense.) There are 46 unique Spelling Clouds. Go through each during the year, covering every spelling choice for each. Incorporate ‘wow words’ etc (extend vocab knowledge).

Listen for the focus speech sound. Conductor reads a sentence (prepared) twice. Students work out the word/s with that speech sound, and the number sound pic/s. ‘I was rushing to the beach to build a sand castle’ ‘sh’ – word – rushing- number 3 word, number 3 sound pic r/u/sh/i/ng Conductor might ask some students to do it orally, and for others to write the word and underline the sound pic.

‘Hold a Sentence’ Some students may do this orally if outside of their Code Level, and other write it. However it is easier if you give a sentence at their Code Level, and all write them. Tell students to listen to their level sentence (you can use Speedy Sentences at first, or create your own). Hold It Write It Read It Check It Change It.

Give students a made up word ! They use the Spelling Strategy, but then put as many choices as they can in the time. This will improve the time it takes for them to find the right clouds, reinforce the spelling choices they already know, and show them new ones.

During the week students can also create words using the wrong sound pics for the right speech sounds, and see if they can build a word no-one can work out ! ptynne ( pt / y / nne ) - tin

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