Spelling

20 September 2013

Here are this week’s spellings; please remember to make sure that your child learns the correct spellings.

These spellings will be tested on Friday 27 September.

When you are practising the spellings, try and make it as fun as possible so that the children remember them: eg you can use magnetic letters, write the spellings in shaving foam or flour, ask your child to test you and then let them mark them or write the words on cards and play snap.  If you need any support then please come and ask.

13 September 2013

This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.

This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter. This means that you need to double the final letter when adding ‘ing’.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 20 September.

13 September 2013

If you are familiar with how we have done spellings in KS1 previously, then you will see that we are trying something different this year.

All the children in Y1 and Y2 have been mixed up depending on their phonic knowledge.  There is a daily phonics lesson, ensuring a secure knowledge which can be applied in writing and reading.

There are three groups: red, yellow and green.  The children know which group they are in and there is a coloured sticker on the front of their learning list book.  You will notice that the spellings below are grouped in these colours so please make sure you know which list you should be learning with your child.  The spellings are linked with previous learning.

All spellings will be tested on Friday 20 September.

If you have any questions please come and ask.

06 September 2013

The spellings this week are all words where you have to drop the ‘e’ at the end of
the word when adding ‘ing’. The children will be tested on the ‘ing’ words in the third column. However, it’s important that they also know the root words (second column) so they understand how the rule works.

12 July 2013

Over the past few weeks (and at many other points in the year) we have been practising our three main spellings rules:

• double-up for short vowel sounds

• drop the e for ing

• drop the y for an i

This week, you need to practise all of the spellings from the last two lists. You won’t get tested on all of them – but you’ll need to know all of them. Also, a few unknown spellings will be added to the test but which still follow one or more of the rules.

05 July 2013

This week, we are spelling words we use in our everyday writing.

They will be tested on Friday 12 July 2013.

05 July 2013

This week’s spellings will be a challenge!  Next week’s test could include any spelling from the last four weeks.

On Friday 12 July, the children will be tested on a mixture of different spellings so be prepared!

05 July 2013

This week the words all end in y. However, when you turn them into a plural, you have to drop the y and add ies.

You do this for any word which has a consonant before the y.

For example, fly becomes flies.

If the word has a vowel before the y, you only add s.

For example, boy becomes boys.

05 July 2013

This week’s spellings all follow a familiar spelling rule:

drop the y for an i

When an er or an est is added to the route word, the y is dropped and replaced with an i. For example,

sunny with er added becomes sunnier

and the y is replaced with an i

Some of these spellings also follow another rule. Do you know which one it is?

28 April 2013

For the last few weeks of spellings, we will revisit three familiar spelling rules. This week’s spellings combine two of these rules:

double-up for short vowel sounds

and

drop the e for ing

All of the spellings double-up because of short vowel sounds. As for the second rule (drop the e for ing), because the route word of these spellings all have le on the end, when an ing is added the e is dropped.

For example,

wriggle with an ing added becomes wriggling and the e is dropped.