Spelling

27 January 2012

Like last week, we’re practising words which have split diagraphs.  The last ‘e’ in the words isn’t a sound that we say, but it works with another letter to change, for example, slim (with a short ‘i’ sound) to slime (with a longer ‘i’ sound).

These will be tested on Friday 03 February.

27 January 2012

This week’s spellings are words with the ‘igh’ letter pattern which creates a long ‘i’ sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 04 February 2012.

• high
• night
• height
• light
• right
• fight
• tight
• light
• might
• sight

20 January 2012

This week, we’re learning to spell words with the split diagraph ‘i-e‘.  This changes a short ‘i’ sound (as in ‘Tim’ and ‘rid’) to a longer ‘i’ sound (as in ‘time’ and ‘ride’).

These words will be tested on Friday 27 January 2012.

20 January 2012

The spellings this week are all words which have a short vowel sound and require a ‘double up’ after the short vowel sound (like the ‘o’ in drop, which sounds different to a longer ‘oh’ sound).

A lot of the spellings are also in the past tense so will practise our ‘ed’ endings again.

Your child will be tested on eight out of the ten spellings on Friday 27 January.

25 January 2012

Spellings this week are the following rule: drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’

Learn all the spellings from the list and find six more that fit the rule.  Learn the six you found too.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 27 January.

20 January 2011

This week’s spellings are slightly different. Instead of a list of words, I simply want your child to be able to distinguish between the two forms of  its:

its  – belonging to something, no apostrophe

it’s – a contraction, like we learnt last week, of ‘it is’

We’ll (another contraction!) be looking at this through the week, but if you could practise these activities at home it will ensure your child has a thorough understanding.

1. On piece of paper, write its on one side and it’s on the other. Read out a sentence and they have to show the correct its.
2. Have some sample sentences where they write the correct form of its. For example:

• Whose coat is this? ____ mine!  (It’s)
• The cat wagged _____ tail.  (its)

A good way to distinguish between the two is to check whether the sentence sounds correct if you substitute the word for ‘it is’. If you can do this, then the correct form is it’s. If it doesn’t seem to make sense, then the correct form is its.

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to come and speak to me.

20 January 2012

This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ck’. Your child will be tested on Friday 27 January 2012.

• shock
• stuck
• trick
• track
• back
• lick
• click
• pick
• lock
• flick

13 January 2012

What is s split digraph?

A split diagraph is an English term under the study of phonetics. It describes a letter that splits during pronunciation. An example is ‘a-e’ which is used in words such as make and take.

Split digraphs are sometimes known as ‘magic e’ words; however, our children will refer to these sounds as split diagraphs.

We’ll be spending the next few weeks learning all about these sounds.

These words will be tested on Friday 20 January.

13 January 2012

This week’s spellings are all words that include contractions.

13 January 2012

This week’s spellings are verbs (‘doing words’) ending in ‘ing’. Your child will be tested on Friday 20 January 2012.

• joining
• fishing
• floating
• reading
• teaching
• writing
• sleeping
• looking
• thinking
• beating