spellings for early key stage 2

[aegeansky]

DS is a good little reader (level 3 at end of KS1 assessment), but his writing lags his reading ability. There are two components - handwriting very messy (I've started separate thread, so not going there again) and spellings not great.

Does anyone know of a good resource with spellings by frequency for this age group/ reading level, please?

On the plus side, he has good visual recall. I corrected a piece of writing he did the other day and he learned ten words in a couple of minutes with 100% accuracy, so it's not exactly going to spoil his holiday!

You'll know whether he's learnt them when he does a piece of writing next week and remembers how to spell the words without prompting.

I have been using the Times Spelling Bee website with DD1 (also just finished Yr 2, reads well but struggles with spelling).

The words on there are quite complex though I think, so we do the 5-7 yrs ones and DD usually gets about half of them right.

Apples and Pears spelling programme has a handwriting component in the early stages.

from Sound foundations,
www.prometheantrust.org/

Bramshott, hmm, I'm not put off by complex words (he has a lot of words like translucent, inhospitable and habitat in his passive vocabulary), except that there's no point in getting involved in fancy stuff if he can't spell 'used to'.

So I think I want to start with high frequency words in quite a systematic way.

Support for Spelling programme

Just google'high frequency words' or 'first 100 words' and also try googling spellings for his year group, eg yr3spellings.

At yr 3, the focus is mainly on spelling patterns, eg words with tt, s and es endings, silent letters.

Mrz, sillyness, thank you both.