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 Understanding English - Spelling for Key Stage 2
Description: ISBN 0721709796 / Author: Carol Matchett / Genre: Education / This book belongs to Understanding English, a series of learning workbooks ... more  Understanding English - Spelling for Key Stage 2 ... for children at Key Stage 2. Each book focuses on a different area of the English Curriculum and the main focus in this book is Spelling. This book describes various spelling strategies, including learning how to spell specific words, remembering spelling rules and checking for mistakes. It features lots of examples and activities helping children to improve their spelling skills.Newest Review: ... which involve looking for smaller words within longer ones. For example, the word cardigan contains the words car, dig, card, ... more ... an and I.
The easiest way to learn to spell compound words is of course to break them down into their component parts, and this is what page 9 does. Then unstressed vowels are looked at, such as the e in frightening or the a in library. The English language is full of homophones – words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings – and these can of course cause great confusion, as in the sentence 'The two bags were too heavy to carry.' There aren't any rules to follow here unfortun...more |
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Schofield & Sims Ltd, ISBN: 0721709
Pages: 32, Paperback, Schofield & Sims Ltd - Books/Subjects/Study ... |
£ 2.95 |
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Understanding English - Spelling for Key Stage 2: Break Words Down and Build Them Up (1011 words)
by frangliz - written on 27.04.07 (Very useful, 1652 readings)
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I have often been asked if I can suggest strategies to help young children improve their spelling, but the English language has so many idiosyncracies that it is no easy task to cover all the rules involving letter strings, vowel sounds, doubling of consonants and so on. Discovering a workbook devoted to spelling and addressing the many facets of the issue is like the answer to a prayer! Understanding English – Spelling is just such a workbook. The first page is about looking at words and asks the child to identify a wrongly spelt word in each of six sentences. Examples are wartter (water) and peepel (people). The second exercise requires drawing an outline ...
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