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Aside from what you do every day in the classroom, there are a few things you can do to help your students prepare for the South Sudan National Spelling Bee Championship.

• Encourage your students to read for fun.

• Make it mandatory for students to utilize the English alphabet. Use of the names or sounds of letters in French or other languages will be counted as a mistake in the competition.

• Dissuade students from using the term "double p" in their spelling (or l, or any other letter). Each letter must be spelled correctly in order to win the competition.

• Create a Spelling Bee Club where students from all classes can meet on a regular basis to read and share books and compete in mock spelling bees.

• Encourage students to join study groups in which they use word lists or flashcards to drill each other or play word games like Scrabble.

• A few days or weeks before the school spelling bee, hold a practice spelling bee. Doing something once alleviates a lot of people's apprehension about new things. The mock spelling bee should look and feel as real as possible.

• Encourage all students to take part. Even if they don't go far, the experience will help them do better in the future. It will present them with a goal to strive for as well as the opportunity to meet like-minded students from different schools and localities.