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Spelling Matters Wednesday 27 th February Woodford Valley Nicki Shewring English and Literacy Adviser nicola.shewring@wiltshire.gov.uk Outcomes To understand the expectations for spelling in the primary phase of education To learn

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Nicki Shewring – English and Literacy Adviser

nicola.shewring@wiltshire.gov.uk

Spelling Matters

Wednesday 27th February Woodford Valley

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Outcomes

  • To understand the expectations for spelling in the

primary phase of education

  • To learn how best to help your child become a better

speller at home

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What we know about spelling

  • Being able to spell easily and automatically helps us to

become better writers.

  • Judgements are made about our literacy (even

intelligence) based on our ability to spell

  • There are patterns in the English language. Learning

these helps us to spell unfamiliar words.

  • Learning to spell is a developmental process of learning

to apply different strategies (not a rote learning task)

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The development of spelling As in all areas, there is a developmental process that children go through in order to become confident and accurate spellers.

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Preliminary Spelling Semi- Phonetic Spelling Phonetic Spelling Transitional Spelling Independent Spelling

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What is phonics?

  • Letters & Sounds
  • There are 44 phonemes (smallest units of sound) in

the English language.

  • Phonics helps to identify the sound that each letter

makes to be able to read and write.

  • How do you say them?
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Blending (combining the sounds)

Building words from phonemes to read. How many sounds are in this word?

cat

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Blending (combining the sounds)

Adding Phoneme buttons (sound buttons) really helps.

cat cat

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Segmenting (separate the sounds)

  • Alongside blending the children learn to segment the words

which supports spelling.

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d

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Segmenting (separate the sounds)

This can be put into a phoneme frame which helps to separate each sound .

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Blending (combining the sounds)

How many sounds are in this word?

shed

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Blending (combining the sounds)

Add phoneme buttons and blend the phonemes together.

shed

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Blending (combining the sounds)

How many sounds are in this word?

coat

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Blending (combining the sounds)

Add phoneme buttons and blend the phonemes together.

coat

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Blending (combining the sounds)

How many sounds are in this word?

night

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Blending (combining the sounds)

Add phoneme buttons and blend the phonemes together.

night

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Segmenting (separate the sounds)

Alongside blending the children learn to segment the words which supports spelling.

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r ai ai n

Segmenting (separate the sounds)

This can be put into a phoneme frame which helps to separate each sound .

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Split digraphs

a-e

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Split digraphs

cake

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Year 1 Phonics Screening

  • The children will be asked to ‘sound out’ a word and

blend the sounds together. e.g. d-o-g – dog

  • The check will consist of 40 words and non-words;
  • Children will be told if the word is a real or ‘alien’

word, with a corresponding alien image.

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Word Examples

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How can you help?

Encourage them to use their phonics skills when reading. Children can practise their phonics by playing games online. The children particularly like - * Buried Treasure * Picnic on Pluto www.phonicsplay.co.uk

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How can you help?

Encourage your child to ‘sound out’ when reading or writing. Focusing particularly on spotting more unusual sound patterns. Eg Digraph- 2 letters making one sound cow - ow Trigraphs- 3 letters making one sound Night - igh Split digraphs- 2 vowels with a consonant in between. Used to be known as the magic e! spine - i-_e

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Connect Four Y1 and 2

You need 4 people, one baseboard and two sets of cards (different colours.) Work with a partner to make a team of two. Place your cards in a pile facing down. Take it in turn to turn over your top card and try to think of a word. Write it on the back of the card with a washable pen and place it on the board where the vowels match The winning team is the first to get four in a row vertically, diagonally or horizontally..

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Useful Definitions

PHONEME - smallest unit of sound GRAPHEME - written representation of the sound DIGRAPH - two letters making one sound e.g ee TRIGRAPH - three letters making one sound e.g igh SPLIT DIGRAPH - where two letters are not adjacent e.g a-e as in make

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Useful websites

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/ https://learn.readwithfonics.com/school/phonics-games https://www.phonicsbloom.com/ http://more2.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f&redir=www

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Common Exception Words

  • Words where it is harder to apply phonics knowledge
  • Words we use frequently in reading and writing
  • List for Year 1 and Year 2
  • Taught as well as phonics sounds in KS1
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Learning the difficult bits in words

could

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Learning the difficult bits in words

could

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Learning the difficult bits in words

– Read it – Say it – Identify the tricky bit – Make up a rhyme or draw a picture – Think of word that rhyme – Write it

could

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Statutory word lists

  • Year 3/4 and Year 5/6
  • Frequently used but with irregular or unusual spelling patterns
  • Will be taught alongside spelling patterns in class
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Year 6 SAT’s

Spelling is tested in two ways:

  • 20 spellings as part of the SPaG test
  • Statutory words are looked for being spelt correctly in children’s

writing

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Spelling Strategies

There are four main ways people use to process the spelling of words:

  • Visual – writer responds to shapes of words and patterns of letter

strings and thinks ‘Does it look right?’

  • Auditory – writer ‘sounds it out’, recognising relationships

between letters and groups of letters and their associated sounds

  • Linguistic – writer is aware of relationships between words,
  • rigins of words or parts of words, thinking ‘why is it spelt like

that?’

  • Kinaesthetic – ‘motor memory’; writer is accustomed to making

specific hand movements to produce letter strings

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Activities to support spelling at home

Visual

  • Rainbow writing
  • Pyramid words
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definite

Definition Define Redefine Confine Confinement Refine Refinery Finite Finish Finishing Unfinished Definitely Indefinite Indefinitely Infinite Infinity

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Activities to support spelling at home

Auditory

  • Sound it out: beautiful people

Kinaesthetic

  • Look, say, cover, write, check
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Mnemonics and memory aids These can be useful. However, make sure that the same aid is used across the school and that there are not too many!

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Here, there and everywhere

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Other resources

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Say the word aloud Do you already know how to spell it? Split the word into

  • syllables. Say the

sounds and put in the sound buttons. Write down the bits that you know how to spell. Which part is the tricky part? What do you know about the tricky bit?

What could help? Spelling rules? Spelling patterns? Classroom displays? Spelling books?

Fill in your best guesses for the tricky bits. Does your best guess look right?

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Are there any silent letters that I need to remember? Can I find it in a book we have read / a classroom display / my spelling journal? Does the word have the right number of letters? Does the word have the right shape/ length? Does the word I have written have a small word hiding inside it that I can spell? Have I cross- checked with another spelling strategy? Other possible steps in a routine

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Quizzes

KS1

  • Think of 5 words ending in –FF
  • How many syllables in the word

SUNSET?

  • Which two letters will fit in all these

words: ba – - thi – - ho- - su – - ? (2 answers)

  • Which words ending in –TCH mean

1) get hold of 2) rabbit home 3) mark on wood 4) bring

  • Which two letters do you add to

an adjective to show it means ‘more’? e.g. more fast?

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KS2

  • Arrive is a verb. What is its noun?
  • ENOUGH rhymes with stuff. Think
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OUGH that also rhyme with stuff.

  • Find two ready-made words

inside REMEMBER.

  • Use some of the letters in PROMISE
  • nce only to spell the name of a

capital city, a way of drinking, a cleaning tool and a flower.

  • Which letter can be put before

OFTEN to make a new word?

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Word building game

win wind windy winding winded

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kind kindly unkind unkindly kindness unkindness unkindliness

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Useful Websites

www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ www.spellingplay.co.uk/ https://www.spellingcity.com/ www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html www.spellzone.com/games/ http://www.howtospell.co.uk/spellingquiz.php

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