Sounds and spelling

Worksheets Silent letters cards
Literacy curriculum Ww/E3.2
Thanks to tutor Michelle for this worksheet on identifying silent letters and the accompanying revision sheet. Cut up the worksheet to make cards and match words with the same silent letter. Use the revision sheet to test recall of the words with silent letters.
'Silent letters' worksheet    'Silent letters' revision sheet

Worksheets 1. Silent letters, 2. Similar words with different meanings, 3. 's', 'sc' and 'c' s-sounds
Literacy curriculum Rw/L1.1 Ww/L1.1
Three editable worksheet on identifying silent letters, similar words with different meanings and on the different spellings of the 's'-sound.
Thanks to tutor Tom for sending these in.   1)'Silent letters' worksheet    2)'Similar words, different meanings' worksheet    3)'S-sound at start of words' worksheet

Worksheet Homophones
Literacy curriculum Ww/E2.1, Ww/E2.2
A worksheet on finding homophones, checking the spellings in the dictionary and using them in sentences.
Thanks to tutor Ellie for sending this in.   'Homophones - practise spelling' factsheet

Factsheet Phonemes
A simple factsheet explaining what phonemes are.
Thanks to tutor Michelle for sending this in.   'Phonemes' factsheet

Long and short vowel sounds
Literacy curriculum WWw/E2.2, SLc/E2.2
Thanks to tutor Michelle for this lesson plan. A 2 hour lesson on how long and short vowel sounds help work out spelling.
Objectives - at the end of the lesson student will have demonstrated:
1. Identify difference between short and long vowel sounds.
2. Asking questions and listening for answers
This plan has 2 handouts: 1) 'Something in common' activity   2) Tutor prompt sheet for long and short vowel sounds

Worksheets: Haiku writing
Literacy curriculum Rw/E3.5 and Ww/E3.2
Here are some worksheets created for a lesson on syllables based around poetry. The inspiration was Skillswise and Your Stories.
Thanks to tutor Michelle for sending in these activites. Michelle says this worked really well with the students.   printable 4 page document

Poster: Homophones
Print out these sheets and assemble them into a large poster. There are eight sheets that will make up a poster 2 sheets wide and 4 long.
Thanks to tutor Michelle for sending this in.   printable 8 page document

Worksheets: Homophones and spelling errors
Literacy curriculum Wt/E3.4 Wt/L1.6 Wt/L2.7 Ww/E3.1 Ww/L1.1 Rw/E3.3 Rw/L1.1 Rw/L2.2
Three activities that can also be used within ICT in using spell checkers and the thesaurus. Notes and explanation of the activities are given on the first page of the document.
Thanks to tutor Donna Hinds for sending in these activities.   printable 5 page document

Homophones
Literacy curriculum Ww/E2.1, Ww/E2.2, SLr/E2.1, Rw/E2.3
A 2 hour lesson covering homophones and vowel sounds.
This plan has 2 handouts: 1) Text with homophones changed   2) Text with homophone pairs

Reading, instructions, vowel sounds, homophones
Literacy curriculum Ww/E2.2, SLr/E2.1, SLc/E2.1, Rt/E2.1, Ww/E2.1
A 2 hour lesson covering several topics: reading, instructions, vowel sounds, words that sound the same.
This plan has 4 handouts:   1) Simplified text from 'Your stories' 2) Vowel sounds worksheet 3) Homophones worksheet

Worksheet: Recognising the long 'a' sound
Literacy curriculum Ww/E2.2
A printable worksheet to recognise different spellings of the long a sound.
Thanks to tutor Jane Gibbs for this worksheet.   printable sheet

Activity: 'Making words' cards
Literacy curriculum Ww/E3.1 Ww/E3.2
A printable sheet to make a set of cards with word beginnings, e.g. 'sw', and word endings, e.g. 'im'.
Thanks to tutor Donni Bridson for this worksheet.   printable sheet

Spelling rules

Worksheet: Spelling plurals
Literacy curriculum Ww/L1.1
Thanks to tutor Michelle for this worksheet. Michelle says
"I created this worksheet as I wanted the students to concentrate on the patterns of singular words for changing them into plural. For this activity your students will need to use a dictionary containing plural spellings."
   editable rtf worksheet

Spelling plurals
Literacy curriculum Ww/L1.1, Ws/L1.2
Thanks to tutor Michelle for this lesson plan, warm up game and worksheets. A 2 hour lesson on rules for spelling plurals.
This plan has a warm up game and 2 handouts:  'Eye-spy' warm-up activity    worksheet 1) Spelling rules    worksheet 2) Spelling pairs game

Spelling and its history
(Literacy curriculum - SLlr/L1.5, SLlr/E3.6, Rt/E3.8, SLd/E3.1, SLd/E3.2, SLd/E3.3)
A forty minute class designed for Entry Level 3 that looks at common spelling problems and links spelling to the history of the English language.

Worksheet: Adding the 'ing' ending to words
Literacy curriculum Ww/E2.2 Ww/E3.1
A worksheet explaining the rules for adding 'ing' to words, with questions. Download the editable 'rtf' document if you want to change the questions to your own choices. Thanks to tutor Donni Bridson for this worksheet.
   worksheet   answers   editable rtf

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