04 October 2019
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the ‘ue’ sound and the alternative graphemes for them: ue, u-e, ew.
Think of ten words which include the ‘ue’ sound and list them here:
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Now place your words into the grid which is in your homework book. They can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, backwards, criss-crossing. Fill in the blank space around your words with random letters and challenge someone to complete your word search during homework review on Thursday 10 October.
27 September 2019
This week’s spellings are common exception words.
he
she
me
be
we
27 September 2019
This week’s spellings are words with a silent k.
In words starting with kn the letter k is silent. Silent letters are the letters in words that are not pronounced but make a huge difference to the meaning and sometimes the pronunciation of the whole word.
knock
know
knew
knee
knight
knot
knife
knit
The children will be tested on these words on Friday 04 October 2019
27 September 2019
This week’s spelling focuses on the ie and oe sounds. Practise these spellings – use the spelling strategies that are stuck into your homework book. There will be a test on Friday 4 October where ten of these words will be tested.
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20 September 2019
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drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ |
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| This week’s spelling activity is all about words where you have to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ when changing the word’s suffix. Your challenge is to play Speed Write against someone at home! Who can write the word correctly the most times in 30 seconds? If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! | ||||
| category/ies | community/ies | dictionary/ies | funny/iest | happy/ier |
| identity/ies | opportunity/ies | secretary/ies | variety/ies | worry/ier |
20 September 2019
This week, all the spellings contain a soft c. The letter “c” has two sounds, hard “c” and soft “c”. The hard sound of “c” occurs most often. (cat)
When “c” is followed by (a, o, u) it is sounded as “k” (hard c).
When “c” is followed by (e, i, y) it is sounded as “s” (soft c).
- race
- ice
- cell
- city
- fancy
- police
- circle
- pencil
20 September 2019
This week’s spellings are words that contain the digraphs ‘sh’, ‘ch’ and ‘th’.
| shop |
| shell |
| lunch |
| chip |
| thin |
| thank |
20 September 2019
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the ‘ie’ and ‘oe’ sounds and the alternative graphemes for them:
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ie, y, i, i-e |
oe, oa, o, o-e, ow |
See how many words you can think of that include the ‘ie’ or the ‘oe’ sounds and record them in your homework book – try sorting them according to the grapheme use to make the sounds. I;m looking for useful spelling practice like the examples show on the sheet that is now stuck in the back of the children’s books. This homework is due on Thursday 26 September and there will be no test on Friday.
13 September 2019
This week’s spelling focuses on the ai and ee sounds. Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Thursday 19 September (because we’re on our trip on Friday) where ten of these words will be tested.
| ai | ee |
| eight/eighth famous
favourite straight strange weight tray great snake brain they everyday |
believe
breathe complete appear extreme increase relief money chimney people busy quickly |
13 September 2019
This week’s spellings are some common exception words. Some of these exception words are used frequently in the children’s reading and writing. They are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual or uncommon way.
| I |
| go |
| to |
| the |
| no |
| was |