Term 3 Spelling rules 2014
These are the spelling rules we will be
focussing 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 example
words.
Vocabulary expansion and topic words
·
Sounds - /e/, e, ea – same spelling different
sounds (bread, bred, instead, health, wealth),
·
Words containing the long vowel phoneme /ar/, a,
al, ear (charm, bar, calm, heart),
·
Recognise and spell the suffix tion, sion and
cian,
Learn how to choose and spell ‘shun’ suffixes,
·
Recap prefixes un- and dis-,
·
Prefixes re-, pre-, de-, mis-, ex-, co-, anti-,
al-, af-, ad-, a-,
Learn that antonym prefixes change the meaning of a word so that it means the opposite (anti means against, in-, un-, ir-, im-,and il- mean not),
·
Investigate use of the apostrophe – possessive and
contraction and how it affects spelling,
·
Spell words with common letter strings but
different pronunciations, eg ice, police, notice,
·
Use knowledge of root words and word webs to spell
families of words, eg assign, assignment, assignation, reassign,
·
Recognise the suffixes –ible, –able, -al, -ary,
-ic, -ist, -ive,
·
Ph,ch,wh in multisyllabic words, eg phone,
graphic, echo, chorus, where, which,
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/er/ phoneme and its most common spellings – ir
(girl), ur (purse), er (herbs), ear (earth), re (centimetre), ar (regular)
Some useful websites:
As spelling lessons are undertaken every day, the homework is
just an extension of class. 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. A huge list of activities was sent home in term one and are regularly
played in class.
If you have any questions, please ask.
22 July 2014
Parent help request
As part of our health programme this term, we will be hearing from a Nutritionist from the Food for Thought programme in class. Part of this programme includes a visit to New World where we will study labelling on certain foods and their contents.
We require parent helpers to walk down with us to New World and to go round the supermarket with a group. Our class is due to visit New World on Thursday 31 July, leaving school just after 9am to arrive at 9.30 and leaving New World at 10.30am. If you are able to help on this day, could you please let your child's teacher know.
Gymnastics – term 3 – Room 19
Our class will be going to gymnastics at Waikanae Memorial Hall this term and we would appreciate some parent helpers. More supervision means the children can try more things. We will go on Thursdays (starting 7 August until 25 September) and will be at the hall between 1.45 and 2.30. If you are able to help any week it would be much appreciated. Please let your child's teacher know or turn up at the hall at the stated time.
5 May 2014
Reading Genres
Now that the children are in a routine of reading for homework and being allowed two library books from school, (one to go home, one to stay at school), I would like to encourage them to read a wider variety of genres. All children have their favourite type of book to read and I hope they are enjoying choosing for themselves. However, reading comprehension involves more than the typical story books or information books they are choosing.
I would therefore like each child to choose one book out of their two choices from the following list. Different genres will be explained and examples given during library time on Wednesdays.
Once they have read the new type of book, the details should be filled on this sheet. I anticipate that children will read each of these new types of genres over the next two terms and for their second choice, maybe choosing a new type of book that interests them.
Genre
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Title
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Author
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Date read
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Comment
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Score out of ten
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Information
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Fantasy
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NZ literature
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Poetry
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Classic literature
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Historical fiction
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Science
fiction
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Biography
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Short story collection
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Mystery
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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
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EXAMPLE
WORDS
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How
words change when er or est are added
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Quick, quicker, quickest
Nice, nicer, nicest
Big, bigger, biggest
Happy, happier, happiest
Beautiful, more beautiful, most
beautiful
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Homophones
Words that sound the
same but are spelt differently and mean different things
|
Might, mite
Sight, site
Blew, blue
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Letter
strings and suffixes
Ice, our, ough, ious, cial, tion,
tious
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Police, flour, though, previous,
special, devotion infectious
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Compound
words that contain sounds:
aw
air
eer
oi/oy
er
ow/ou
or
ar
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Walkway, frogspawn
Hairbrush, wheelchair
Headgear, yearbook
Toytown, boyfriend
Birthday, herself
Nowadays, greenhouse
Cornflakes, doorstep
Carpark, farmhouse
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Word
webs
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Child, children, childless,
child-proof, childlike, etc
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Words
within words
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Sign in signature
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Roots
Tele, Aqua, Micro, Scope, Phone, Trans
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Telecommunication,
aquarium, microscopic, telescope, telephone, transmission
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Strategies
Homophone knowledge
Words within words
Analogy and letter strings
Knowledge of root words
Segmenting phonemes
Clapping out syllables
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Topic
words
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Matariki and
science words, WOW words – interesting words from creative writing.
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Revision
from term 1 and practice of essential word lists
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Suggested activities could be:
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Think of other words that follow the rules
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Put words that follow the rules into sentences.
·
Who wants to be a millionaire – children choose
correct spelling from 4 options (3 misspelt).
·
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 spelling lessons are undertaken 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
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