Spelling strategies:
6/3 To use independent spelling strategies, including

• sounding out and spelling using phonemes
• using visual skills, e.g. recognising common letter-strings and checking critical features (i.e. does it look right, shape, length, etc?)
• building from words with similar patterns and meanings, e.g. medical, medicine
• spelling by analogy with other known words, e.g. light, fright.

7/4 To practise new spellings regularly by 'look, say, cover, write, check'.
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Year 3 Term 2 Word objective 10
10 to investigate, spell and read words with silent letters
Year 3 Term 2 Word objective 8
8 to identify short words within long words as an aid to spelling
Year 4 Term 3 Word objective 6
6 to spell words with common letter-strings but different pronunciations, e.g. tough, through, plough

Specific guidance: Year 5 Terms 1, 2, 3 Word Objectives 2 and 3
Spelling strategies:
2 to use known spellings as a basis for spelling other words with similar patterns or related meanings.
3 to use independent spelling strategies, including

• building up spellings by syllabic parts, using known prefixes, suffixes and common letter-strings
• building words from other known words, and from awareness of the meaning and derivations of words
• using visual skills, e.g. recognising common letter-strings and checking critical features (i.e. does it look right, shape, length, etc?)

Y5 Term 1 Objective 5:
to investigate, collect and classify spelling patterns in pluralisation, construct rules for regular spellings, e.g. add -s to most words; add -es to most words ending in -s, -sh, -ch; change -f to -ves; when y is preceded by a consonant, change to -ies; when y is preceded by a vowel, add -s.

Y5 Term 2 Objective 4:
to explore spelling patterns of consonants and formulate rules, e.g. c is usually soft when followed by i.

Y5 Term 2 Objective 6:
to distinguish between homophones, i.e. words with common pronunciations but different spellings.

Y5 Term 3 Objective 5:
to investigate and learn spelling rules: words ending in a modifying e drop e when adding -ing; words ending in modifying e keep e when adding a suffix beginning with a consonant.

Y6 Term 1 Objective 5:
to use root words, prefixes and suffixes as a support for spelling.

Y6 Terms 2/3 Objective 4:
to revise and consolidate work from the previous four terms with particular emphasis on learning and inventing spelling rules