Are you looking for digital orthographic mapping activities for high-frequency words with tricky spellings? These synthetic phonics interactive PowerPoint slides will help your students to use orthographic mapping to unpack words with difficult spellings in English.
For each word:
1. Say the word
2. Read in the context of a decodable sentence
3. Map the word (drag the moveable counters)
4. Spell the word (write on the screen, or type into text boxes)
5. Identify the tricky part (drag the moveable heart)
20 high-frequency words with tricky spellings (heart words) are included:
all
small
now
how
down
our
out
round
about
around
again
away
today
says
going
come
some
other
too
here
Heart Words are words with a tricky part which we have to learn by heart. These ‘tricky parts’ are either irregular/rare spellings, OR spelling patterns that have not yet been taught.
5 high-frequency decodable flash words are also included:
day
way
my
by
why
Flash words are high-frequency words with regular spellings. These words can be easily sounded out (decoded) but we want students to know these words ‘in a flash’.
By using the alphabetic code to identify the different graphemes, students will be able to understand how to spell all words on the high-frequency words list of any phonics or spelling program.
Please note: this resource has been created from an Australian accent. There may be some accent discrepancies.