Spelling

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.

03 May 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 10 May 2013.

Zebras

These are words that end in ‘ck’.

• shock
• stuck
• trick
• track
• back
• lick
• click
• pick
• lock
• flick

Tigers/ Lions

These are words with ‘tch’ to make the ‘ch’ sound.

• catch
• watch
• patch
• witch
• stretch
• match
• kitchen
• stitch
• snatch
• switch

03 May 2013

There will be no new words to learn this week. Instead, there will be SATs style spelling tests of words that the children are unfamiliar with.

I suggest children spend time each night looking through old spelling lists and trying to remember rules, especially:

• drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ eg hope / hoping, accommodate / accommodating
• drop the ‘y’ for ‘i’ eg happy / happiness, fury / furious
• double up for short vowel sounds eg diner / dinner, coma / comma

Spelling tests will be given at several points in the week.

03 May 2013

The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ice that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg police, nice).

Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.

26 April 2013

We’re reviewing our learning on split digraphs this week: the ‘e’ at the end makes the vowel in the word a longer sound – compare ‘rid’ with ‘ride’, for example.

These words will be tested on Friday 03 May 2013.