Spelling

17 May 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 24 May 2013.

Zebras

Words using ‘igh’

• high
• night
• height
• fright
• right
• fight
• tight
• light
• might
• sight

Tigers

Adverbs ending in ‘ly’

• sadly
• fairly
• slowly
• quickly
• kindly
• shyly
• proudly
• nicely
• loudly
• sweetly

Lions

Lions will also be learning to change adjectives into adverbs. They will learn that if an adjective ends in ‘y’ they drop the ‘y’ and then add ‘ily’.

• sadly
• calmly
• slowly
• quickly
• smartly
• angrily
• happily
• scarily
• nastily
• stealthily

17 May 2013

The spellings this week all contain the ending sion. You’ll notice that this ending makes the same ‘shun’ sound as last week’s spellings.

Can you also spot the words which have a double up for a short vowel sound?

17 May 2013

This is the last week we’ll be focussing on a familiar set of letters. The letter string this week is ou. Again, these letters are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg out, pour).

17 May 2013

This week we are looking at a trigraph: a three letter grapheme, where three letters represent one sound (phoneme), as in air (three letters making one sound).

These words will be tested on Friday 25 May 2013.

10 May 2013

The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ea that are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg bear, fear).

10 May 2013

This week, we’re learning to spell words with alternative spellings for the ‘long i’ phoneme – the ‘long i’ sound in words such as those in the list.  Some words use igh, some use i-e, some use a y (often at the end of the word).

You can help your child’s spelling:

• look out for these when reading, or anywhere in the home, in shops etc
• prepare labels with igh, i-e, y – read out words and see if your child can say which spelling pattern (which grapheme) they use
• think about other words which use igh, i-e or y to create a ‘long i’ sound – how many can your child find?
• are there other ways to create this sound?

These words will be tested on Friday 17 May 2013.

10 May 2013

The spellings this week all contain the ending tion, making a ‘shun’ sound.

There are other endings which sound similar but are spelt differently. Can you think of any?

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 17 May.

10 May 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 17 May 2013.

Zebras

Words with i_e split digraph – these make a ‘long i’ sound

• bite
• kite
• quite
• site
• white
• write
• invite
• drive
• five
• hive

Tigers

Words using ‘oo’, ‘u’ and ‘oul’ to make similar sounds.

• hood
• would
• should
• could
• good
• shook
• took
• push
• pull
• just

Lions

Words using ‘augh’ and ‘ough’.

• bought
• sought
• fought
• brought
• nought
• thought
• naughty
• daughter
• taught
• caught

03 May 2013

Please learn these words for a test on Friday 10 May.

Words containing the ee letter pattern.

03 May 2013

We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week. The spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i. The first six words all drop the y for an i when they are changed into plurals. The final four words drop the y for an i when changing the word into an adverb.