Spelling

26 April 2013

This week’s spellings are homophones again. This time we are thinking about ‘n’ and ‘kn’ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 03 May 2013.

• know
• no
• knew
• new
• knot
• not
• knight
• night
• knit
• nit

26 April 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.

26 April 2013

The spellings this week continue 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 ight.

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

The spellings this week all us the rule double up for a short vowel sound.  Just before the double letters in the words below, the vowel has a longer sound – it’s the difference between dinner and diner, for example.

I know it feels like we’ve done this rule loads already this year but it is one of the crucial spelling rules and we still need to practise!

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 03 May.

19 April 2013

The spellings this week all have words which contain a silent h or k. Many of these words have been spelled incorrectly in recent pieces of writing.

1. when
2. what
3. whine
4. ghost
5. which
6. honest
7. knock
8. know
9. kneel
10. knight

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 26 April.

19 April 2013

We’re learning to spell words with y at the end.

Ending a word with ‘y’ can sometimes make a very short ‘e’ or ‘i’ sound, such as ‘party’ and ‘lady’.  However, the words in this list are all single-syllable words where the ‘y’ makes a long ‘i’ sound.

These will be tested on Friday 26 April.

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.