Spelling

19 March 2021

We’ve continued learning about alternative spellings as part of our Phase 5 phonics learning, focusing on the ‘igh’ sound.

• fight
• might
• time
• Friday
• tidy
• pie
• cry
• kite

Practise these spellings, writing them into sentences and discussing meaning. The children will be tested on them on Friday 26 March.

19 March 2021

In class this week, we have moved onto Phase 5 phonics learning. This learning was started last half term as part of the phonics home learning but we are revising this to ensure all pupils have covered these sounds.

Here are the sounds included within Phase 5 phonics learning.

Here are this week’s spellings.

spray                                May

louder                               sprout

replied                              tried

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 26 March. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!

Phonics Play

A few children have asked about login details for using Phonics Play at home.

Phonics Play is accessed through their website, not an app, and the login details are below. The children are familiar with the site and they should pick Phase 3, 4 or 5 games.

Username Sphere

Password Spher3

19 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.

We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?

There is space to add four of your own root words. On Friday, you’ll be tested on the ten words in bold.

12 March 2021

This week’s spellings are based on words with Phase 3 sounds that we would like the children to practise (ure, ear and air).

chairs

hair

picture

sure

year

hear

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 19 March. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!

12 March 2021

This week’s spellings are based on words with Phase 5 alternative spellings that we’ve been recapping this week:

• teddy
• eight
• straight
• delete
• stream
• plate
• monkey
• train

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 19 March. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words.

12 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).

Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!

05 March 2021

This week’s spellings are based on words with two syllables (like a ‘beat’ in a spoken word).  By dividing words into syllables, this can help the children to try and write each syllable at a time. They should also be able to use their phonics knowledge to help to spell these words. The words are taken from the book Zog, by Julia Donaldson, which we will be reading in class next week.

zigzag

learning

hardest

dragon

golden

capture

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 12 March. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!

05 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.

Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?

 e.g. The root word of completely is complete.

 Spelling list:

• accidentally
• completely
• closely
• frantically
• particularly
• occasionally
• separately
• basically
• probably
• surprisingly

Week beginning 11 January 2021

This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.

05 January 2021

Hi everyone!

Your spellings for this week are all about the alternative graphemes for ‘ai’, ‘ee’ and ‘ie’.

A grapheme is how a single unit of sound (phoneme) is written.

For example, for ‘ai’, you could have the word bait. For ‘ay’, which is the same sound as ‘ai’ but is just written differently, you could have bay.

ai and ay are alternative graphemes

Your spellings to remember for this week are:

favourite, straight, weight, believe, appear, increase, height, describe, decide, surprise

Send an email to your class teacher if you want to ask any questions!