07 June 2013
Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two words that sound the same are spelt differently.
LO: To use the correct homophone. |
bare / bear |
buy / by / bye |
for / four |
hear / here |
been / bean |
wait / weight |
In these next two sentences there are five homophones. See if you can spot them!
Whilst most of the spellings are pretty straightforward, the challenge is whether you can tell which one is necessary for the sentence.
For example:
I have been/bean to the shops.
Can you write the correct homophone in this sentence?
It’s the half-term break…
…so there’s no homework or spellings this week. Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.
17 May 2013
This is the last week we’ll be focussing on a familiar set of letters. The letter string this week is ou. Again, these letters are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg out, pour).
LO: words that contain ou |
shout |
hour |
pour |
yours |
foul |
would |
mourn |
route |
journey |
could |
10 May 2013
The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ea that are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg bear, fear).
LO: words that contain ea |
bear |
wear |
learn |
yearn |
heart |
dear |
fear |
dreary |
leader |
meaner |
03 May 2013
The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ice that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg police, nice).
LO: words that contain ice |
practice (the noun, not the verb, to practise) |
notice |
police |
nice |
twice |
dice |
apprentice |
mice |
Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.
26 April 2013
The spellings this week continue to focus on a familiar set of letters (eg ough, ight) that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg cough, through).
This week, the set of letters are ight.
1. | slight |
2. | bright |
3. | delight |
4. | fright |
5. | insight |
6. | tonight |
7. | eight |
8. | weight |
9. | freight |
10. | height |
Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.
19 April 2013
Over the next few weeks, our spellings are going to focus on a familiar set of letters (eg ough, ight) that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg cough, through).
This week, the set of letters are ough.
LO: words that contain ough |
rough |
tough |
enough |
plough |
thought |
through |
though |
trough |
cough |
Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.
22 March 2013
This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:
double-up for short vowel sounds
All the spellings here are high-frequency words. That means they are all words that are used often. Like last week, continue to sound out the vowel sounds with your child so that they associate the short vowel sound with the doubled-up consonant.
LO: double-up for short vowel sounds |
common |
pillow |
suddenly |
swimming |
sorry |
kettle |
follow |
swallow |
15 March 2013
This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:
double-up for short vowel sounds
With your child, compare the word with the long vowel sound in the first list (diner), with the short vowel sound in the second list (dinner). Usually, the words don’t share meaning (eg pole to pollen). However, by sounding out each word it becomes clear which word requires a double-up of the consonant and which do not.
LO: double up for short vowel sounds | |
diner | dinner |
biter | bitter |
coma | comma |
writing | written |
taped | tapped |
hoped | hopped |
super | supper |
slope | sloppy |
08 March 2013
This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:
double-up for short vowel sounds
The spellings are all verbs. When the suffix ed is added, it requires us to double up the consonant after the short vowel sound.
For example, hop +ed becomes hopped (rather than hoped, which has a longer ‘oh’ sound).
LO: double up for short vowel sounds | |
drag | dragged |
shop | shopped |
rub | rubbed |
trip | tripped |
cram | crammed |
travel | travelled |
ban | banned |
stop | stopped |