Spelling

16 November 2012

This week’s spellings are words containing ‘ar’. Your child will be tested on Friday 23 November.

16 November 2012

This week we are spelling words with plurals. The children have to find twelve different spellings to fit the following rules.

Most nouns just add an s:

• envelope   envelopes

Many nouns ending with a consonant and a y: drop the y for an i, then add es:

• family   families

Nouns ending in a ‘s’ or other soft sound (ss, ch, x): add an es:

• dress   dresses
• relax   relaxes
• crutch   crutches

Children will be tested on their twelve individual spelling and other words that have the same rule on Friday 23 November.

16 November 2012

This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’. The adverb of these words is modified by adding either an er added or est at the end which changes the meaning. Children should learn all these words and see if they can come with some of their own.

There’s another spelling rule used in the spellings this week. Can you spot which one it is?

16 November 2012

This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’. The adverb of these words is modified by adding either an er added or est at the end which changes the meaning. Children should learn all these words and see if they can come with some of their own.

There’s another spelling rule used in one of the spellings this week. Can you spot which one it is?

09 November 2012

Please learn these words for a test on Friday 16 November.

Words containing the oa letter pattern, which create a ‘long o’ sound.

For those of you that want a challenge…

You could write the words in a sentence eg I made the toast.

09 November 2012

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 when adding ly.

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 16 November.

09 November 2012

This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’. The route word of these spellings has an ly added (or fully) and the y is replaced with an i.  For example, cheeky becomes cheekily.

There are lots of types of words where it’s necessary to drop the y for an i. In this list, all the words are adverbs. That means they all describe a verb.

09 November 2012

This week we are learning to spell words with double letters. Spellings will be tested on Friday 16 November.

09 November 2012

This week’s spellings are a recap of split digraphs (a-e, i-e, o-e and u-e). The ‘e’ at the end of the word indicates the word has a longer vowel-sound in the middle – think about the difference between hop and hope, for example.

Your child will be tested on Wednesday 14 November 2012.

• make
• take
• spike
• broke
• smoke
• snake
• brake
• like
• huge
• came

19 October 2012

The spellings for this week are ‘high-frequency’ words, many of which are ‘tricky words’ – words that don’t follow an obvious phonics pattern.

These words will be tested on Friday 26 October.