Spelling

25 January 2013

We’re still practising words which have split digraphs. This week we are looking at ‘u – e‘, for example, tub (with a short ‘u’ sound) changes to tube (with a longer ‘u’ sound) when there’s an ‘e’.

These will be tested on Friday 01 February 2013.

18 January 2013

This week’s spellings for Lions and Tigers end in ‘ge’ or ‘dge’. A useful tip is that if the word has a short vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘dge’. If the word has a long vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘ge’.

• bridge
• hedge
• huge
• damage
• village
• badge
• stage
• judge
• message
• badger

This week’s spellings for Zebras are words with the split digraph.

• take
• make
• bike
• like
• spoke
• came
• cake
• ride
• spike
• broke

Spellings will be tested on Friday 25 January 2013.

18 January 2012

This week we look at words with the split vowel digraph a-e: two letters, split by a consonant, which make a ‘long a’ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 25 January.

18 January 2013

This week we are continuing to look at words with ful as a suffix. The words on the list can also become adverbs with the addition of an extra suffix: ful and ly.

For example: mercy   merciful   mercifully

Children will be tested on Friday 25 January on the root words with both ful and fully added as a suffix.

• beauty
• delight
• sorrow
• disgrace
• boast
• fear
• help
• spite
• power

18 January 2013

All the spellings this week contain the letter string ough. It’s important to practise reading these words as well as writing them down as there are a variety of sounds that the ough words can make.

Children will be tested on all eight words on Friday 25 January.

18 January 2012

This week’s spellings are plurals again. However, this week our spellings require you to add an es to the route word to make it a plural.

What do you notice about the ends of the route words?

11 January 2013

This week, we’re learning to spell words with the ‘ful’ suffix.
Children have been given the following words to investigate and find those that would have the ‘ful’ suffix and learn their spellings. Remember- not all of the words on the list work with the ‘ful’ suffix.

• proud
• like
• sick
• quiet
• mind
• glad
• hope
• kind
• arm
• room
• thought
• cold
• nice
• child
• friend
• doubt
• sure
• tune
• home
• care
• fruit
• life
• lone
• cheer
• mist
• time
• hurt
• rich
• pain
• shame
• thirst
• king
• near
• free
• use

Spellings will be tested on Friday 18 January.

11 January 2013

Over the next few weeks, we’re going to learn more about plurals.  This week, all our spellings simply require s at the end of the route word to make it a plural.

Can you spot what other rule is being used in some of the spellings as well?

11 January 2013

All the spellings this week contain a long i sound which is spelt igh. Children could also think of other words which contain igh or make other words from one of the spellings. For example: fright, frightening, frightened, frightful.

Children will be tested on all eight words on Friday 18 January.

11 January 2013

Please learn these words for a test on Friday 18 January.

Words containing the ‘ea‘ letter pattern, which create a ‘long e’ sound.

For those of you that want a challenge…

You could write the words in a sentence, such as:

• I swim at the sandy beach.
• I saw a seal by the beach and then went to have an ice-cream.