Spelling

28 June 2013

This week’s spellings are words with a silent k. 

This means the k is not said out loud when we blend or read the word;  k and the next letter are a special grapheme which work together so they make one phoneme: a ‘nnn’ sound.

• knuckle
• knee
• knit
• knickers
• knob
• knife
• knight
• knock
• knot
• kneel

28 June 2013

For the last few weeks of spellings, we will be revisiting 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.

28 June 2013

This week’s spellings look at words we have come across in our Big Topic. They are all about the farm. These words will be tested on Friday 05 July 2013.

21 June 2013

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

They will be tested on Friday 28 June 2013.

21 June 2013

This week’s spellings are all words which have been used quite often in the children’s writing this week and spelled incorrectly. Unfortunately, many of the words are ‘double up for short vowel sound’ words which, despite the continued practice, are still being spelled incorrectly.

21 June 2013

This week’s spellings look at the use of the apostrophe as a contraction (to shorten words).

eg  could not – couldn’t

Lions

• weren’t
• couldn’t
• haven’t
• hadn’t
• aren’t
• can’t
• won’t
• you’re
• you’ll
• they’re

Tigers

• don’t
• can’t
• I’ve
• won’t
• isn’t
• doesn’t
• she’s
• there’s
• I’m
• I’ll

21 June 2013

The suffix we’re learning to use this week is ‘tion’.

Can you think of any more words that follow this rule?

14 June 2013

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful. The suffix ful means ‘full of’. Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end it loses one of its ls. For example, wish and full becomes wishful.

14 June 2013

There will be no usual spelling test next week, and so no new words to learn this week. Instead of the normal test, the national phonics screening test will take place.  There is no date set for which children will be tested on which day; as always, avoid unnecessary absences.

I suggest children spend each night looking through old spelling lists. Get your child to read and sound out the words.

Please see me if you have any questions.

14 June 2013

Over the next couple weeks, we’re going to be learning about suffixes.

This week’s spellings all end with the suffix ‘ful’, Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end, it loses one of its ls. For example, wonder and full becomes wonderful.

A couple of the words follow a similar another familiar spelling rule when ‘full’ is added. Do you know what it is?