Helping with Spelling at Home

• Help your children hear sounds in words by encouraging them to say each word slowly, stretching out the vowel sounds so that they can be heard clearly, e.g. m-a-n, h-ou-se, kn-igh-t

• Help your child to write simple words by asking your child what sound s/he can hear, moving left to right across the word. If s/he can hear the sound but does not know how to write it, simply show how to do it.   “This is ‘m’ , e.g. m-a-n.

In P6, children learn that:

The same sound can be represented in different ways e.g. see we eat

The same spelling can represent different sounds
e.g. we get

Children explore multi-syllable words. E.g. ‘happy’ ‘happiness’

They also discover words with special endings e.g.
‘station’, ‘special’, ‘treasure’