Spelling

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?

14 June 2013

This week’s spellings look at adding a suffix where the root word does not change eg. care – careless (care has not changed in any way when the suffix has been added).

• careless
• thoughtless
• homeless
• lifeless
• fearless
• jobless
• thankless
• headless
• speechless
• endless

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings are a revisit of words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are still struggling to read these words and / or write them correctly.

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 14 June 2013.

Lions: Drop the e for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

• explore
• exploring
• decide
• deciding
• hope
• hoping
• write
• writing
• dive
• diving

Tigers / Zebras: For short vowel sounds double up for ing

This is one of our three main spelling rules.

• tap
• tapping
• hop
• hopping
• skip
• skipping
• pop
• popping
• get
• getting

07 June 2013

This week, we’re revisiting words which have a split digraph.

Remember a split digraph is when the ‘e’ at the end of words works with another letter to make a longer sound. Think about the difference between hop and hope – both have three sounds (phonemes), but the split digraph in hope creates a ‘long o’ sound. Other examples in the list below is the difference between Tim and time and made and made.

These words will be tested on Friday 14 June.

07 June 2013

Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two words that sound the same are spelt differently.

In these next two sentences there are five homophones. See if you can spot them!

Whilst most of the spellings are pretty straightforward, the challenge is whether you can tell which one is necessary for the sentence.

For example:

I have been/bean to the shops.

Can you write the correct homophone in this sentence?

It’s the half-term break…

…so there’s no homework or spellings this week.  Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.