• LOOK carefully at the new word. How can you break it into smaller bits? Do any of the smaller bits remind you of the patterns of letters from other words?
• THINK about the parts of the words which might cause problems - double letters for instance, or a vowel that isn't pronounced as you would expect.
• COVER the word and close your eyes. Try to see it in your mind's eye.
• WRITE the word down without looking back.
• CHECK to see if you're right. If not, look carefully at where you went wrong and try again.

More Hot Tips
*   Whenever you have to copy a new word from the blackboard, from a book, or from the dictionary always try to write the whole word in one go.
Don't keep looking back after every few letters.
*   Try finger-writing:   while you're THINKing about the word, pretend to write it with your finger, on your desk, on your hand, or even better according to some experts, on a sheet of sandpaper! 

• LOOK carefully at the new word. How can you break it into smaller bits? Do any of the smaller bits remind you of the patterns of letters from other words?
• THINK about the parts of the words which might cause problems - double letters for instance, or a vowel that isn't pronounced as you would expect.
• COVER the word and close your eyes. Try to see it in your mind's eye.
• WRITE the word down without looking back.
• CHECK to see if you're right. If not, look carefully at where you went wrong and try again.

More Hot Tips
*   Whenever you have to copy a new word from the blackboard, from a book, or from the dictionary always try to write the whole word in one go.
Don't keep looking back after every few letters.
*   Try finger-writing:   while you're THINKing about the word, pretend to write it with your finger, on your desk, on your hand, or even better according to some experts, on a sheet of sandpaper! 

Now look at an example of using
LOOK - THINK- COVER - WRITE - CHECK

Now look at an example of using
LOOK - THINK- COVER - WRITE - CHECK