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What age for these spellings

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mummyof2boys30 · 12/02/2022 12:33

My son has diagnosis of dyslexia and has just received a statement of educational need. His school aren't very understanding and have had lots of issues so i tend not to ask their advise.

What age would you expect a child to be doing spellings like
Black
Pack
Smack
Pick
Lick
Sick
Sixty

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disneyprincess87 · 12/02/2022 12:42

These are all phonetically decodable words containing the ck grapheme, taught in foundation stage. I'm presuming your child is much older and has been given this list? Does it match his level of ability? x

MerryMarigold · 12/02/2022 12:51

I'm not sure why you're asking. To get a statement is difficult so he must be severely dyslexic.

My DS2 could spell those in Y1 but DS1 I would say Y4.

Silverswirl · 12/02/2022 12:53

No additional needs and these are Y1 spellings.
However depending on addition needs these could be any age right up to y11!

Smartiepants79 · 12/02/2022 12:57

On average? An early year 1 child.

IggyAce · 12/02/2022 12:58

Looking at the common exception words (CEW) non of these appear on the lists from my ds school. As pp they are phonetically decodable so I expect these to be covered in KS1.

Pinkflipflop85 · 12/02/2022 12:59

@IggyAce

Looking at the common exception words (CEW) non of these appear on the lists from my ds school. As pp they are phonetically decodable so I expect these to be covered in KS1.
Year 1.
Pinkflipflop85 · 12/02/2022 13:00

Sorry...not sure why there's a random quote of a previous post there!

ShallWeTalkAboutBruno · 12/02/2022 13:01

Early year 1 at our school.

Duracellbunnywannabe · 12/02/2022 13:07

Start of year 1 or the lower phonics group maybe towards the end of year 1.

lookforthesun · 12/02/2022 13:08

I would guess y1?

HeyRememberThatTime · 12/02/2022 13:15

I'd say early Y1

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mummyof2boys30 · 12/02/2022 13:33

Just asking due to curiosity i think. I don't know whats expected at his age. He struggles to even write a sentence independently. On another note what sort of spellings are your 9/10 year olds doing

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noscoobydoodle · 12/02/2022 13:42

My 8 year old (yr4) spellings this week have included words like catastrophe and apostrophe. My 6 year old (yr 2) has had words like knight, know, knew. I dont know if everyone gets the same spellings though and I thought these were pretty hard!

MaizeAmaze · 12/02/2022 13:42

Oxford Owl also has the Year3&4 lists, a Y2 list and a Y1 list.

Pinkflipflop85 · 12/02/2022 13:52

Some y5 examples

Government
Pronunciation
Accommodate
Mischievous
Concenience

Highflow · 12/02/2022 23:16

Yr 5 examples
Straighten
Government
Criticise
Opportunity

Seashor · 13/02/2022 23:08

They are not year 1. My reception children would be expected to spell them. My year 1’s are spelling words like could, thought, people.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 13/02/2022 23:12

@mummyof2boys30

Just asking due to curiosity i think. I don't know whats expected at his age. He struggles to even write a sentence independently. On another note what sort of spellings are your 9/10 year olds doing
My dyslexic child in Yr 6 is working on the Yr4 spelling list at the moment. She gets between 2-5 right each week. She could spell those words I think.
RafaIstheKingofClay · 13/02/2022 23:14

I’d say more reception than year 1. Maybe yr1 in the first couple of weeks if you were revising reception content.

SprogletsMum · 13/02/2022 23:15

My year 6 daughter could quite easily spell all of those wrong. I suspect she is dyslexic but school aren't willing to help her. She got 3/24 in the mock SAT'S spelling tests they did last week.

Glumgal · 13/02/2022 23:16

The ck digraph is on the year 1 spelling list. A complete list for all year groups is available here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk › ...PDF
English Appendix 1: Spelling - GOV.UK

I'd say if your son is older than 6, then these have been given to him as individualised targeted spellings.

Auntycorruption · 13/02/2022 23:18

@Seashor

They are not year 1. My reception children would be expected to spell them. My year 1’s are spelling words like could, thought, people.
They really wouldn't. Not according to the state national curriculum anyway.
Forgetaboutme · 13/02/2022 23:23

My 9 year olds class has 2 different spelling groups. One group has been doing words very similar to your list like 'black' and 'crack'. The other has words like 'apostrophe' and 'calculator'.

RafaIsTheKingOfClay · 13/02/2022 23:29

They really wouldn't. Not according to the state national curriculum anyway.

The yr1 curriculum spelling objectives include content that is covered in reception. It would be very surprising if most children weren’t able to spell those words by summer term of reception.

4 of the words fall completely within phase 2 of letters and sounds, which would typically be taught in the autumn term. 2 are CCVC words using only phase 2 graphemes. ‘Sixty’ is pretty much the odd one out.

It wouldn’t be wildly different for other phonics schemes.