Spelling


Spelling Rules Term 4 2015

These are the spelling rules we will be focusing on this term.  Some of them are dependent on which spelling group your child is in.  It would be helpful if you could ask your child what rule they are studying each week and encourage them to give you more example words. They could be recorded in the homework book that goes between school and home.

Spelling Rule
Example words
   Recognise unstressed vowels in words
Wednesday, mathematics, secretary, jewellery
Identify the au/or phoneme and know its most common spellings
drawn, ought, automatic, chalk, ignore, tour, scorn
Explore silent letters as the tricky bits in words
knife, gnome, thumb, wrist, honest, chemist, sword
    End of year spelling test
Examples from all the rules learnt.
Errors will determine which rules still need to be learn during the rest of the term. Children with few or no errors will work on expanding their vocabulary and language skills, eg origins of words and how language has developed.

Suggested activities could be:
Think of other words that follow the rules
Put words that follow the rules into sentences.
www.spellingcity.com (lots of games and activities)
Discuss and spell words that don’t follow the rules.
Guess my word, eg unimportant – it has a prefix un, it means not really needed, it has 4 syllables etc
See other sheets given out in Term 1 for over 70 other ideas.

As the opportunity to practice spelling is given every day, the homework is just an extension of class activities and is not meant to be a set piece of work that will be marked. Only the tests will be marked.  Activities are for practise only and should be a fun, daily, ten minute task. It is intended that children will remember the rules and be able to spell a huge variety of words, and not just a list of ten for that week.

If you have any questions, please ask.                                  
M Fearon, Room 19  

Spelling lists will be sent home every week except the last week of term.

Term 3 spelling rules - click on this link

Term 2 spelling rules - click on this link



Spelling rules  click on this link


Spelling games were sent home in term 1 and have being learnt over the term.

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