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Bo Bear's Spelling
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This rewarding Bo Bear activity utilises the 'Look, Cover, Write, Check' technique of practising and reinforcing spellings. Pre-set word lists can be presented, selected from the high frequency 'sight recognition' words for Key Stage 1. Other lists are topic based, or can be created to suit the needs of the child.
Subjects Covered

LITERACY.
Age Range

5-6-7
NLS.
Learning Objectives

Vocabulary, Spell common irregular words, Spell CVC words, Spell words with specific spelling pattern or cluster.

Year 1 Curriculum Links

LITERACY
Term 1
W11 Spell common irregular words from Appendix List 1. (Reception list all there, assumption here that teachers will create their own words for other lists)
Term 2
W1 Secure identification, spelling and reading of initial, final and medial letter sounds in simple words

W2 Investigate, read and spell words ending in ff, ll, ss, ck, ng

W3 Discriminate, read and spell words with initial consonant clusters, e.g. bl, cr, tr, str ? Appendix List 3:
To discriminate, read and spell words with final consonant clusters, e.g. nd, lp, st;
To segment clusters into phonemes for spelling

W8 Investigate and learn spellings of words with ?s? for plurals (assumption here that teachers will create their own lists for the above)

W9 Spell common irregular words from Appendix List 1

W1 Learn the common spelling patters for each of the long vowel phonemes: ee, ai, lie, oa, oo (long as in moon) Appendix List 3:
To segment words into phonemes for spelling

W5 Recognise words by common spelling patterns

W6 Investigate and learn spellings of verbs with ?ed? (past tense), ?ing? (present tense) endings (assumption here that teachers will create their own lists for the above)

W7 Spell common irregular words from Appendix List 1
Year 2 Curriculum Links

LITERACY
Term 1
W1 Secure identification, spelling and reading of long vowel digraphs in simple words from Y1 term 3 ( the common spelling patterns for each long vowel phoneme) ? Appendix List 3

W2 Revise and extend the reading and spelling of words containing different spellings of the long vowel phonemes from Year 1

W3 Learn the common spelling patterns for the vowel phonemes: ?oo? (short as in good), ?ar?, ?oy? ?ow? (Appendix List 3)
To segment the words into phonemes for spelling

W5 Read on sight and spell approximately 30 more words from Appendix List 1

W9 Spell common irregular words from Appendix List 1 (Assumption for all that teachers will create their own lists)
Term 2
W1 to secure the reading and spelling of words containing different spellings of the long vowel phonemes from Year 1

W2 the common spelling patterns for the vowel phonemes: ?air?, ?or?, ?er? (Appendix List 3)
To segment the words into phonemes for spelling

W3 Read and spell words containing the digraph ?wh?, ?ph?, ?ch? (as in Christopher)

W6 Read on sight and spell the words from Appendix List 1

W9 Spell common irregular words from Appendix List 1 (Assumption for all that teachers will create their own lists)
Term 3
W1 Secure phonemic spellings from previous 5 terms

W2 Reinforce work on discriminating syllables in reading and spelling from previous term

W3 Discriminate, spell and read the phonemes ear (hear) and ea (head)

W4 Secure reading and spelling of all the high frequency words in Appendix List 1.

W8 Spell common irregular words from Appendix List 1 (assumption here that teachers will create their own lists) to spell common irregular words from Appendix List 1


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