Support for spelling
Activities and yearly spelling programmes to help children understand and apply different spelling conventions and rules.
Support for spelling topics
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Support for Spelling
Use Support for Spelling to help improve children’s spelling and support your planning and teaching within the Primary Framework. Headteachers and subject leaders can also use this content to find out how programmes can be organised in their schools. This is linked to the Primary Framework for literacy.
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Factors that have influenced spelling
Find out how the alphabet and the history of language have influenced spelling. This is part of Support for Spelling.
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Knowledge of the spelling system
Discover how understanding different types of knowledge can support children’s ability to spell, and find lists of spelling guidelines and conventions that can be applied across many words.
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Learning objectives and teaching focuses
Find the spelling learning objectives and related teaching focuses for Years 2 to 6 and learn how they are linked to the yearly spelling programmes. This is part of Support for Spelling.
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Spelling and writing
Find out how spelling and independent writing are linked, and read approaches and spelling strategies that can help support independent writing. This is part of Support for Spelling.
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Learning and practising spelling
Use these different teaching strategies and routines to help children memorise words, including high-frequency and topic words. These ideas can be applied at home or in the classroom.
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Guide for parents: How to help your child with spelling
Parents can find a variety of suggested methods, strategies and word games they can use to help encourage and support their children in becoming confident and accurate spellers. This is part of Support for Spelling.
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Spelling programmes and teaching sequences
Support for Spelling provides a suggested spelling programme for each year group. Find out how these programmes are structured and what they contain.
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Year 2 programme
This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
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Year 3 programme
This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies.
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Year 4 programme
This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
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Year 5 programme
This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
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Year 6 programme
This suggested spelling programme can help children achieve the Primary Framework learning objectives from Strand 6: Word structure and spelling. The programme contains different activities, approaches and strategies and is part of Support for Spelling.
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Phase Five
Phase Five of Letters and Sounds takes place throughout Year 1 and focuses on children learning more graphemes for the 40+ phonemes already known.
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Phase Six
Phase Six of Letters and Sounds takes place throughout Year 2 and beyond. It aims to increase fluency of the blending of words encountered for the first time in reading and accuracy of spelling choices.
