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-------- What does tricky words mean? Tricky words are those words which the kids might find a little bit difficulty in reading or writing, because when the letters are combined together, they produce a different sound than when they are alone.
There are different tricky words which we have brought in this video to let the kids get used to them. Getting used to the tricky words happen through the method used in teaching the kids and in this educational video, the technique we are depending on is "read it, make it, write it" which are the steps that the kid will need to go through and perform.
At the beginning of the activity, the parent will write down a tricky word on the board and then ask the child to read it, make it with the magnetic letters, and then write it down on the board. At the beginning, kids could create the words and write them down while they are looking on what the parent has written, but to make it a little bit challenging for them, the parent should clear everything and let the kid write down the letter without having any other resource to look at. This is a good technique to teach the kids to write down words without always having something to look at.
The different tricky words which we used in this video are "saw", "what", "was" and they are actually used in lots of different sentences and the kids will use a lot throughout their educational journey. It is always important that the parent choose three or four words to play with and make sure to do so with those which their kids might find it a little bit difficult to read or write.
These different games related to tricky words are helpful not only in letting the kids pronounce and spell the words correctly, but they also give them the chance to learn how to write down these letters or words (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqzSSBu02TQ).
When it comes to the lessons taught to the kids, it is always helpful and more effective to use the different games and activities because that's how challenging the whole game will turn out to be and how the kids will actually learn something at the end. There are different spelling and writing games in general for the kids that will help them a lot in learning the English language correctly and know more about phonics as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxfEbpLQPAE).
Learning the English alphabet letters, spelling the letters correctly, writing down those letters and being able to blend all these in the writing as well as the reading phase, are all different lessons which the kids will go through when they are learning English, since it is not that easy as some people think - or as adults perceive it nowadays - for the kids, the whole thing is different (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmk5gY7Zb00).
Using the tools at home, the different games and toys which the kids already own, and depending on some cheap resources, always end up being successful when it comes to teaching the kids something new, such as this lesson related to the tricky words in the English language.
Always get creative with teaching the kids and always make sure to keep them the ones leading the game because that's how they end up being excited about it all and will even ask for repeating the whole game and trying other tricky words to write, make and read.
What do you think of those different tricky words we have chosen? Did your kids work on them before? Did they manage to read the words correctly, make them and write them down once again? Are there any other words you would like to recommend when it comes to the tricky ones?
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This video demonstrates a practical multisensory activity called \"Say It, Make It, Write It\" to help children learn \"tricky words\"—words that do not follow standard phonetic patterns and must be memorized by sight. Through repetition and varying levels of support, the method helps students internalize the spelling of these challenging words.
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In this video we're going to really address the idea of tricky words,
those words that don't really follow a phonics pattern or a phonetic pattern
and we're going to use a little activity called say it, make it, write it.
So that's what I'm going to ask you to do today. Do you think you can do that Aaron?
Yeah.
I'm going to tell you to say it or read it, make it, write it.
And it's a bit like the whole look, cover, write, check idea
but it's just getting that practical aspect in
to really think about those letters and to really get it into their minds
because unfortunately these words, they do have to just memorise them
because they don't follow that phonetic pattern.
Okay Aaron, so first word on our board,
all I'm using is a little chopping board actually out of Ikea.
It's a great resource and some cheap magnetic letters
and you can rub this out and write whatever you want on it as many times as you like
and it's a good size as well to work with.
Okay, so what does this say?
Okay, do you think you can make saw with your magnetic letters?
What do you need first?
An S.
An S, okay.
A.
W.
Can you find the W?
Y, what does this say?
Now do you think you can write it?
So he has read it, he has made it and now I'm going to ask him to actually write it.
So he's seen it in lots of different forms as well which is really good for memory.
Okay, now this time I'm going to make it a little bit more trickier.
I'm going to ask you to take this away
and I'm going to take this away and I'm going to ask you to write it again.
So now he's starting to rely on that memory.
Do you think he can write it again?
Unfortunately, these tricky words do need a little bit of repetition.
Can you write it again?
So, okay, this time I'm not going to give him anything.
I'm going to actually ask him to try and write it again on his own completely.
Can you remember?
You're meant to down here, let's try.
Excellent, good boy and we'll come back to that.
As I say, this does involve repetition so do keep revisiting the same words
and keep going through the same process.
Are you ready to try another one?
Okay, right, let's see.
Can I borrow your pen?
This is a really tricky one because this one doesn't really look like what it says or it doesn't.
Well, you don't know because I haven't told you yet.
Are you ready?
This is for this next tricky one.
This has got four letters.
Okay, well done.
Do you think you could make it?
Yeah.
Okay.
The W.
Oh yes, you've got a W there.
Oh good, well done.
Good.
Good job, well done.
So what have you made?
Excuse me.
And what are you going to do now?
What's the last part?
You read it, you make it, then you job.
Good.
Lovely.
Now, are you ready?
I'm going to take this time.
Oh, I'm going to take this one away and this one away.
Do you think you can write it again?
Yeah.
I'll write it down here.
Let's make some drag.
So again, just mixing it up a little bit.
Remove different ones so that they're really getting the sense of trying it and having to go.
But this will take practice and it will take repetition.
But it is a 30 second to one minute activity that can be done any time in the day.
So it is a really good one for just if you want a short burst of something.
Okay, lovely.
Now the hard part.
Do you think I can take them all away?
And you can have a go.
What do you think?
Right up here.
Well done.
Good job.
And here's an even harder challenge.
Do you think you could do that again?
Without any letters or any help.
Do you think you could do it below?
Well done.
Very, very good.
Okay.
Okay, ready for this last one?
Okay, let's have.
Oh, this is a really tricky one.
Because it's a very sneaky one.
It doesn't sound anything like it looks.
The sounds don't work if you try to sound them out.
But it's a very important word because we need it lots of times.
Okay.
That was my tricky word in P1.
Was that your tricky word in P1?
And did you know it?
And sometimes we still spell it incorrectly, don't we?
Because that's how it sounds, doesn't it?
Okay, so we've read it.
What's the next job?
Okay, can you make it?
I think you put it back in, didn't you?
So again, and it's also getting that letter recognition as well
and using those letter names and those letter sounds.
W, good.
Looks a bit like an A, doesn't it?
And I wouldn't intend to do any more than three or four in one session
because you don't want to overload them.
And the whole idea of this is short, short, first practice and repetition.
That's the best way to address this.
I'm doing it in different forms
and this is only just one of the very many forms that are out there for practising this.
Can you find the next?
Do you need some help?
Oh, good.
All right, so we've got was.
All right, your turn.
Okay, I'm going to do it really hard this time.
And the idea is keep revisiting those words as well.
Do you think you can remember saw?
It's all about repetition.
Okay, and the last one.
This is the hard one because it's got four letters.
Do you think you can remember how to do what again?
Excellent.
And my intention would be to use maybe these three or maybe four tricky words
as maybe your four or five tricky words of the week
or choose that particular one that your child's struggling on
and just use methods like this for actually keeping on practising those
because as you know, they will need to use these words
and they'll need to recognise them as sight words in books
because the phonics isn't really going to help them.
So do keep practising and keep repeating the process over and over
but do mix it up.
Don't always just rely on the one method.
This is one of a lot out there.
So do try and have a little go at trying different methods
for mixing it up and really getting them to think
about those different letters within those words.
