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Misspelled Words

Contributed by:
Craig Gill
Age Range: 5 to 11

The list below shows 100 of the most often misspelled words:

their	to	there	they	then
your	clothes	looked	people	pretty
because	thought	and	beautiful	it's
something	named	came	name	tried
swimming	first	were	than	two
let's	mother	another	through	some
woman	animals	started	that's	would
said	wanted	bear	from	frightened
cousin	alright	happened	didn't	always
interesting	sometimes	friends	children	an
until	our	asked	off	through
running	believe	little	things	him
went	where	stopped	very	morning
here	many	know	with	together
now	decided	friend	money	when
its	bought	getting	going	course
again	heard	received	coming	too
for	February	once	like	they're
surprise	before	caught	every	different
school	jumped	around	dropped	babies

(if you would like to print this list, use this printable version here)

Why not try some of the following activities to help your class remember these words?

Activities

1) Make a class dictionary, which children can refer to when they are writing.

2) Ask the children to create some mnemonics to help remember the spellings of the above words.

For example,

Boys
Eating
Custard
Are
Usually
Sloppy
Eaters Big
Elephants
Are
Ugly
T
I
F
U
L There is always a LIE in BELIEVE

When you have made your mnemonics, show them off! Decorate the classroom with them, so that the children can easily refer to them if they forget them.