Spelling focus

Weeks 3-4 term 3

We are focusing on adding suffixes to words for the next two weeks

Magic Suffixes – er, est and en

Focus on the rule for adding these suffixes to long vowel word that end in a final e (hope – hoping and hoped)

Focus on the rule for adding these two suffixes to words that have a short vowel sound followed by a consonant at the end of the word (hop – hopped – hopping)

Discover that these same principals apply when adding en, er, est

Expand vocabulary and knowledge of sight words that contain these suffixes

Weeks 1-2 term 3

We are focusing on adding suffixes to words for the next two weeks

• ·       Spell the ing suffix correctly when they add it to the end of a word
• ·       Discover that when we write many past tense words we add ed to the end of the word
• ·       Pronounce the ed ending in three different ways ‘d’, ‘t’, ‘id’
• ·       Learn the rule for adding these suffixes to long vowel word that end in a final e (hope – hoping and hoped)
• ·       Learn the rule for adding these two suffixes to words that have a short vowel sound followed by a consonant at the end of the word (hop – hopped – hopping)
• ·      Sort word endings in ed into groups according to their ‘ed’ sounds

Weeks 11-12 term 1

We are focusing on the 'ar' sound  for the next two weeks

·      Being able to identify words that have the ‘ar’ sound in it. ·      To know that the letter ‘r’ does not write the ‘ar’ sound ·      To write an ‘ar’ sound with an ‘ar’ ·      Understand that the ‘ar’ sound can also be written with an ‘a’ and an ‘al’

Be able to spell high frequency words that have ‘ar’ in them

Weeks 8, 9, 10 Term 1 

We are focusing on the long 'u' sound for the next two weeks.

·      Learning to identify the short and the long u sound and know that they are different ·      Understand that long ‘u’ can sound like ‘you’ and ‘oo’ ·      These spelling patterns ‘u’, ‘u_e’ , ‘ui’  sound like “YOU” ·      These spelling patterns ew’ , ‘iew’ sound like “OO”

Weeks 6 -7 Term 1 

We will be focusing on the long 'i' sound for spelling. The children have been given 5 words that focus around the long 'i' sound and the other words have been found from their writing books. It might be handy to have a look on spelling city as it has activities that link to each of the groups spelling words.
During these two weeks we will be focusing on:
Being able to identify words that have the long 'i' sound in it.
To write the long 'i' sound with i, y, igh, and i_e patterns
That y is often used to write the long 'i' sound when it is the last sound in a one-syllable word.
The i_e pattern happens at the end of a word.
The igh pattern is usually followed by a t or is the last sound in a word.

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