Spelling

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.

19 October 2012

We are breaking from the norm this week by only having six spellings. This is because the spellings are a bit trickier than usual.

The spellings are all ‘adding connectives’ which we’ll be using in our writing next week. Most of the spellings have a capital letter and a comma because we will be using them as sentence openers.

(‘Another point is…’ flows better without a comma.)

19 October 2012

This week’s spellings are “irregular” spellings for past tense.  They do not follow the regular rules for adding “ed”.

These will be tested on Friday 26 October 2012.

19 October 2012

This week, the children have come up with some connectives that they struggle to spell. These will also help them with their report writing this week.  For example…

Cars are ideal to get about from A to B.  However, they do cause pollution and can cause accidents.  Furthermore, it is known that opting to walk or cycle is much healthier.  In other words, sitting in a car is not a way to exercise whilst travelling.

The spellings are a variety of different types of connectives – they do different jobs in a sentence. See if your child knows which ones they are.

Your child will only be tested on eight of these spellings. It’s important that your child remembers to have a capital letter at the start and a comma at the end.

19 October 2012

This week’s spellings begin with ‘th’. Your child will be tested on Friday 26 October 2012.

• three
• throat
• throne
• thigh
• thin
• thing
• thick
• throw
• threw
• think

12 October 2012

We are learning about ed endings this week. This week’s list is made up of words where you have to add ed to the end of the word when changing it to the past tense. Children often hear this ending as a t sound and not ed.

12 October 2012

This week’s spellings are words using ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. A useful way to remember which to use is ‘oi’ is usually in the middle of a word and ‘oy’ is usually at the end. These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 October.