Spelling at KS1

Move away from traditional spelling tests with our KS1 teaching pack.

Creative teaching ideas and a variety of resources will support your teaching of spelling strategies and rules and engage your year 1 and 2 classes in this tricky area of learning.

The pack includes sections on grapheme/phoneme correspondence, high frequency words, compound words, homophones, plurals, silent letters and apostrophes.

It’s as easy as a, b, c!

What’s included?

• 32 supporting resources
• includes both five minute activities and activities for longer sessions, extension suggestions, assessment opportunities, home learning tasks and ideas to keep things ticking over
• links to the curriculum.

What’s inside?
Section 1: Words we use a lot: high frequency words, numbers, tricky words (pages 1-7)
Teaching ideas
Rhyming words for numbers
High frequency crosswords

Section 2: Recognising and matching graphemes and phonemes (pages 8-25)
Teaching ideas
Matching words and pictures – ee sounds
Four corners – digraphs and graphemes word sets
Digraph word group display templates

Section 3: Recognising, matching and blending digraphs and graphemes (pages 26-43)
Teaching ideas
Digraph picture word cards
Making word cakes – blending digraphs and graphemes
Making word cakes – blending split digraphs and graphemes
Digraph snap for real and non-real words

Section 4: Linking words and definitions (pages 44-53)
Teaching ideas
Loop game word definitions
Loop game word definitions – missing letters

Section 5: Compound words (pages 54-59)
Teaching ideas
Compound word dominoes
Word sums
Word building challenge

Section 6: Chunking words by number of syllables (pages 60-64)
Teaching ideas
Syllable counter
Syllable tricks

Section 7: Reinforcing high frequency word knowledge (pages 65-79)
Teaching ideas
Common usage words top 100
Tricky high frequency word cards
Missing keywords
Anagram word ladders – HFW
HFW anagram cards

Section 8: Plurals of words including those ending in y (pages 80-90)
Teaching ideas
One dog, two dogs – plurals picture cards
Words ending in ‘y’ – picture cards

Section 9: Recognising common homophones (pages 91-102)
Teaching ideas
Homophone fan
More homophones
Homophone squares

Section 10: Spelling words ending with /dz/ sound (pages 103-105)
Teaching ideas
Word building blocks – dge and ge

Section 11: Words beginning with silent letters (pages 106-108)
Teaching ideas
Shh! – silent letters

Section 12: Apostrophes – possessive and contractions (pages 109-118)
Teaching ideas
Expand and contract
Contractions all around us
Dogs or dog’s – singular possessive nouns
Cartoon apostrophes to show possession