Week 1 Spelling test – Week one (11/09/24)
This week’s spellings focus on recapping the alphabetic from the alphabetic code and the corresponding spellings.
- door
- duck
- monkey
- who
- write
- toy
- tube
- nurse
- hair
- eight
Day/date for completion: Wednesday 11th September 2024
Marking: Spelling test every Wednesday
Complexities of the English Alphabetic Code
- 26 letters are used and reused in many different combinations to represent the 44 sounds of speech.
- A sound (phoneme) can be represented by 1-4 letters: ‘c a t’; ‘sh o p’, ‘n igh t’ and ‘d ough’.
- A sound (phoneme) can be spelled in numerous ways, e.g., the sound /ee/ can be spelled ‘ee’ as in ‘bee’, ‘ea’ as in ‘cream’, ‘e’ as in ‘he’, ‘ie’ as in ‘field’, ‘y’ as in ‘funny’, etc.
- A spelling (grapheme – letter or letter combination) can represent different sounds, e.g., the letters ‘ea’ can be pronounced /ae/ as in ‘great’, /e/ as in ‘head’ and /ee/ as in ‘team’.