TRICKY WORDS!

First of all, let's clarify what tricky words are. Tricky words are those words that are written in a manner but you have to read them otherwise, like:

If normally our children have to be careful not mixing Spanish and English pronunciation, tricky words turn them crazy! But they have an advantage: they are children! And they have more flexibility and adaptability to learn new things, so it's the perfect time to teach it. We just have to care the way we do it!

I'm going to show you how we do it in my school:

Here are some pictures of the different worksheets that we do in class with each tricky word, we use different materials to let the children experience the texture and the way they can work with them:

But not everything are worksheets! Children need to play and enjoy what they are learning! So, let's explain and show you a couple of games to do with this:

The first is to glue a piece of sheet with a tricky word written on it around the class, the teacher will say a tricky word and the children have to run and touch the one that they think it is. With this activity we work the listening.

In the second game called "Tricky words hunting game", the children have to make and paint a "magic camera" to find the tricky words!

Once we have it, we will have prepared in the playground the tricky words pasted in different places, like we're going to see now, and children will have to go and take one of them and give it to the teacher saying and pronouncing fine the tricky word that they have caught. With this activity we work the speaking!

I hope you like it!

Enjoy teaching tricky words,

Laura.