You can 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.
Support for Spelling contains a range of materials and resources including:
- knowledge of the history of spelling and the English language
- a range of suggested strategies, approaches, and activities to help improve and practise spelling
- a collection of spelling learning objectives and teaching focuses
- programmes for Years 2 to 6 which draw on the learning objectives and teaching focuses
- a guide for parents.
Support for Spelling is linked to CLLD: Letters and Sounds.
Benefits of spelling
- Accurate spelling helps children become fluent and effective writers.
- Competent spellers can spend less time and energy thinking about spelling, which enables them to channel their time and energy into the skills of composition, sentence structure and precise word choice.
Attachments
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Factors that have influenced spelling
Discover how the alphabet and the history of language have influenced 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
