📚 How to Use This Booklet

Weekly Spelling Routine:

Monday: Learn new words - read, discuss meanings, identify patterns

Tuesday: Practise writing - complete "Practise & Check" activities

Wednesday: Use in sentences - create meaningful sentences with your words

Thursday: Test time - ask a grown-up or partner to test you

Friday: Review and reflect - check your progress and celebrate!

🎯 Week 1 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. enjoy     2. annoy     3. destroy     4. royal     5. loyal

6. employ     7. voyage     8. joyous     9. choice     10. voice

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• Sound Hunt: Find the 'oy' sound in each word - say it aloud!

• Royal Writing: Write your words in fancy, royal handwriting

• Voice Practice: Use different voices to spell each word out loud

• Word Families: Group words that sound similar (enjoy, annoy, destroy)

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you:

🚀 Challenge!

1. Write 2 sentences using at least 3 spelling words in each sentence:

2. Find 2 more words that have the 'oy' sound and write them here:

🎯 Week 2 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. listen     2. often     3. castle     4. whistle     5. gentle

6. glisten     7. fasten     8. hustle     9. wrestle     10. thistles

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• Silent Letter Hunt: Find the silent 't' in each word

• Castle Building: Build each word letter by letter like building castle blocks

• Whistle Spelling: Whistle between each letter as you spell

• Syllable Clap: Clap out the syllables in each word

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you:

🚀 Challenge!

1. Sort these words by their ending sound: -tle, -sten, -en:

2. Write a short story using 4 of your spelling words:

🎯 Week 3 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. doctor     2. factor     3. actor     4. sailor     5. tailor

6. visitor     7. inventor     8. director     9. narrator     10. operator

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• Job Match: Match each word to what that person does

• Suffix Spot: Find the -or and -er endings in each word

• People Parade: Act out each job as you spell the word

• Memory Palace: Imagine meeting each person and remember their spelling

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you:

🚀 Challenge!

1. Write what each person does (e.g., "A doctor helps sick people"):

2. Think of 2 more jobs that end in -or or -er:

🎯 Week 4 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. phone     2. photo     3. graph     4. dolphin     5. alphabet

6. elephant     7. sphere     8. hemisphere     9. phrase     10. rough

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• Ph Hunt: Find the 'ph' sound that makes the 'f' sound

• Photo Memory: Imagine taking a photo of each word to remember it

• Alphabet Order: Put your words in alphabetical order

• Rough & Smooth: Notice which words are easy/hard to spell

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you:

🚀 Challenge!

1. Circle all the words with 'ph' and underline all words with 'gh':

2. Use 'phone', 'photo', and 'elephant' in one sentence:

🎯 Week 5 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. sure     2. sugar     3. ocean     4. chef     5. machine

6. parachute     7. brochure     8. champagne     9. moustache     10. fashion

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• French Connection: Many words come from French - say them with a French accent!

• Tricky Letters: Find the unusual letter combinations (ch, sh, tion)

• Fashion Show: Spell each word as if announcing it at a fashion show

• Sure Thing: Use "I'm sure..." before spelling each word

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you:

🚀 Challenge!

1. Group words by their tricky sounds: 'sh', 'ch', other:

2. Write about a chef cooking by the ocean using 3 spelling words:

🎯 Week 6 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. quiet     2. quite     3. build     4. busy     5. clothes

6. clothes-line     7. clothes-peg     8. colour     9. couple     10. cousin

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• Quiet vs Quite: Remember "quiet" has "et" (be quiet!), "quite" has "te"

• Clothes Family: Notice the clothes words that go together

• Colour Hunt: Write each word in a different colour

• Build Words: Build each word letter by letter like building blocks

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you:

🚀 Challenge!

1. Write sentences showing the difference between "quiet" and "quite":

2. Draw a picture and label it using the "clothes" words:

🎯 Week 7 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. eight     2. eighteen     3. eighty     4. weight     5. neighbour

6. sleigh     7. reign     8. vein     9. veil     10. beige

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• Eight Family: Notice how eight, eighteen, eighty are related

• Tricky 'eigh': Find the 'eigh' pattern that sounds like 'ay'

• Neighbour Network: Spell words to your neighbour (partner)

• Weight & Wait: Remember these sound the same but spell differently

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you:

🚀 Challenge!

1. Find all words with 'eigh' and 'ei' patterns and group them:

2. Write a story about a sleigh ride using 4 spelling words:

🎯 Week 8 Spelling Words

This week's words:

1. climb     2. comb     3. numb     4. dumb     5. thumb

6. limb     7. bomb     8. debt     9. doubt     10. plumber

🌟 Fun Ways to Practise!

• Silent Letter Detective: Find the silent 'b' in most words

• Thumb Spelling: Use your thumb to trace each letter as you spell

• Rhyme Time: Group words that rhyme (climb/limb, comb/bomb)

• No Doubt: Say "I have no doubt I can spell..." before each word

✏️ Practise & Check

Write each word once:

Choose 3 words to practise again:

Spelling Test - Ask a grown-up or partner to test you: