Please find below spellings that your children can be working on. Try to do one list at a time as they each have a focus sound.
When helping to support your child's learning of spellings it may be useful to follow a sequence such as this:
1. Show the children the new spellings and discuss what you notice for example:
- a digraph- also referred to as a special friend such as /ay/
-patterns
-rules
-root words (the word on its own i.e. singing- sing would be the root word as it makes sense on its own)
-suffixes (at the end of a word- i.e. -ing, -ed, -er, -est)
-prefixes (at the beginning of a word i.e. un-)
2. Define these words and read them together
3. Choosing the right spelling to go into a sentence
i.e. The man is out of ______.
piff puff peff
4. Individual spelling- i.e. Look, cover, write, check. Please find a blank copy of this at the bottom of the page. You could also choose to do this writing in chalk, sand/sugar, write the words on the wall/pavement in chalk and with water get the children to scrub away the correct word.
5. Play games- i.e. hangman, search for the word in a dictionary, word search.
You can show your child the Complex Speed Sound Chart attached here so they can see that some sounds are the 'same sound, different appearance'. This is a phrase that we use to support the children in Read Write Inc.