Dictionary Games & Activities

Dictionaries are useful things! Students enjoy using them and - unlike spellcheck - they give the meaning of the word and even work without a battery. Amazing.

It's worth encouraging students to use and handle dictionaries regularly in class. As well as correcting work and finding new vocabulary in the traditional manner, they can be used to encourage creativity and confidence (whilst improving spelling, too).

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Spelling And Grammar - Useful Sites

So, you've marked your student books and they're full of the 'usual' mistakes. Mistakes which drive you mad because you know they've learned how to do it properly in primary school. Mistakes like missing capital letters, run-on sentences, fragments, confused homophones and apostrophes sprouting up like weeds before every single s.

Mistakes which could ruin their grade.

As we all know, spelling and grammar (or SpAG as it is sometimes known) has been introduced to almost every GCSE - and could be worth as much as 20%. That's two full grades.

SpAG is not just short for spaghetti