Spellings

Spellings should be practiced weekly in preparation for our spelling test every Thursday. Our spellings this year are a mixture of spelling rules from the curriculum and key words for Year 3/4/5 (common exception words). Learning spellings encourages the children to make links between word patterns, transfer their phonic knowledge and be more accurate, fluent and independent writers. Helping them to understand the meaning of the words is also helpful and finding other examples of the spelling pattern. Dictating short sentences for them to write or getting them to generate verbal sentences for the words is a good idea.