What order to teach KS1 Spelling?

[margaritasbythesea]

DCs and I are just starting our second year living abroad but I want to make sure they keep up with their peers in the UK with English spelling.

DD should really be doing KS2 but as she has had difficulties at school due to undiagnosed deafness, I thikn she will benefit from going over the basics.

I´m a secondary school teacher in English so feel quite confident about how to do it. What I am looking for and can´t find is the best order in which to do it. I got the CGP book which is useful to an extent but actually covers fairly few spelling rules. I also looked at the National Curriculum which just seems to be a list of what they should know which does´t help me much.

Could anyone point me in the right direction of a good programme, please? Or have any other suggestions.

I do read to them daily but they themselves are not keen readers, although they both read well if I ask them to read to me. They do a few of their school subjects in English and have English lessons but obviously this is at a lower level than in the UK. My son loves to do dictations, which helps!

Thank you for reading. I would be very grateful for any suggestions.

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

I honk she means the no nonsense spelling strategies list posted further upthread.

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

think not honk.

My iPad hates me.

[margaritasbythesea]

Ok. Thanks. I wasn't thinking of using it. I am going to follow NC.

[Norestformrz]

That will require you to teach through phonics.

[margaritasbythesea]

I think I would have to do that anyway because of their education here.

I wonder why there aren't more clear programmes for home study, like an equivalent to the Heinemann maths study books we have had in the past? I shall just have to make my way the best I can.

From what I read here, it seems a fairly fraught topic.

[Norestformrz]

https://www.udemy.com/help-your-child-to-read-and-write/ is a free course for parents who want to help their children.

[margaritasbythesea]

Thank you for the link. I have had a look at the spelling lists for the free course and they would find it too easy, I´m afraid.

[Norestformrz]

The course is for the parent to learn the techniques which can be applied to any word.

[Norestformrz]

There aren’t any spelling lists for the course so I’m not sure what you’ve looked at.

[margaritasbythesea]

I found one under the respires for the course.

[margaritasbythesea]

Sorry. To be clear, I am fine with phonics. I was looking for a programe or order for study of the required spellings for KS1. And really my query was whether There is an order to do it which makes it more comprehensible akin to the way times tables are introduced in groups.

That was mean to say resources btw

[GU24Mum]

My daughter's school uses the Nelson Spelling books which you could look at?

[margaritasbythesea]

Thanks. I shall look them up. I haven´t come across those yet.

[Norestformrz]

There isn’t an order or required spelling list for KS1 (just the 200 High Frequency Words)
In Key Stage 1 the statutory requirement is that children can segment spoken words into sounds before choosing graphemes to represent the sounds (which basically translate into every word in the English language). The English program of study gives some non statutory examples but they are just examples because there isn’t room to include everything.

[margaritasbythesea]

Ok. That makes sense. Thanks.

[maisiestar]

Why are the no nonsense strategies deemed to be no good. I've got a dyslexic 9yr old who has so far struggled hugely with phonics. He's made some progress in reading but that does seem to be almost in spite of phonics. Are there any strategies you could recommend to us for a non phonic way of learning?

[Feenie]

Not really - all the programmes recommended for dyslexic children are high quality phonics.

www.dyslexics.org.uk