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Please take a look below at a summary of our learning for this half term. You can find a full plan in the Spring Term One Letter above and the Home Learning Homepage will provide resources to support your home learning on a weekly basis.

This half-term, we will be focussing upon the following sounds (phonemes) and letter combinations (graphemes) in words to help children with their spelling and reading. Here is a list of words the children will be practising to learn to read and write in school.

• Identifying vowels and constants in words and learning what long vowel and short vowel sounds are.

• The /n/ sound spelt kn and (less often) gn at the beginning of words:

• Knock, know, knee, knit, knight, gnat, gnaw

• The /r/ sound spelt wr at the beginning of words:

• write, written, wrote, wrong and wrap

• Words ending in le, el, il and altable, apple, bottle, little, middle (The –le spelling is the most common spelling for this sound at the end of words)

• camel, tunnel, squirrel, travel, towel, tinsel (The –el spelling is much less common than –le and is used after m, n, r, s, v, w and more often than not s)

• metal, pedal, capital, hospital, animal (Not many nouns end in –al but many adjectives do)

• pencil, fossil, nostril (Not many words end in il)

• Learning how to make a singular word into a plural by adding an -s, -es or -ies

To extend your child, encourage them to think of words containing these letter patterns. Give your child more complex words containing these patterns to read and spell.