Spelling

19 April 2013

Over the next few weeks, our spellings are going to focus on a familiar set of letters (eg ough, ight) that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg cough, through).

This week, the set of letters are ough.

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

19 April 2013

This week’s spellings are homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. Your child will be tested on Friday 26 April 2013.

• meet
• meat
• deer
• dear
• see
• sea
• flee
• flea
• bare
• bear

We’ll be thinking about other homophones during the week too.

22 March 2013

This week the spellings are all ‘double up words’ because they have a short vowel sound before the double letter (think of comma / coma or dinner / diner).

These words also have an ‘le’ ending.  This ending is commonly misheard and misspelled as ‘el’ or ‘ul’.

The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Thursday 28 March.

22 March 2013

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

They will be tested on Thursday 28 March 2013.

22 March 2013

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

All the spellings here are high-frequency words. That means they are all words that are used often. Like last week, continue to sound out the vowel sounds with your child so that they associate the short vowel sound with the doubled-up consonant.

22 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Thursday 28 March 2013.

Lions

The spellings are plurals ending in ‘ies’. When we change singular words that end in ‘y’ to make plurals, we need to drop the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’.

• tries
• cherries
• stories
• flies
• berries
• babies
• lorries
• ladies
• families
• cities

Tigers

This week’s spellings are words that make the ‘f’ sound using ‘ph’.

• graph
• phonics
• dolphin
• elephant
• sphere
• nephew
• alphabet
• telephone
• photo
• phase

Zebras

• bony
• greasy
• lazy
• scary
• shiny
• tasty
• slimy
• wavy
• nosy
• spiky

15 March 2013

This week’s spellings are a mixture of the previous week’s two rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits one of the rules. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

15 March 2013

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

With your child, compare the word with the long vowel sound in the first list (diner), with the short vowel sound in the second list (dinner). Usually, the words don’t share meaning (eg pole to pollen). However, by sounding out each word it becomes clear which word requires a double-up of the consonant and which do not.

15 March 2013

For the final time, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt throughout the year. Each day we will have a randomly generated test on some of the spelling from the year plus a bigger test on Friday.

Make sure your spellings are up to date in your learning list book – if they aren’t up to date, use the website to help you fill in the gaps.

You might not remember the spelling, but see if you can apply the rules.

15 March 2013

This week’s spellings are words with the ‘igh’ letter pattern which creates a long ‘i’ sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 22 March 2013.