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Important update from TheSchoolRun
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Ks1 Spelling worksheets
Free worksheets: Spelling, KS1
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Split digraphs revision (Phase 5 phonics)
A fun, teacher-created resource that helps children understand what a split digraph word is, which is often taught in Phase 5 phonics at primary school.
Words containing 'tch' (Phase 5 phonics)
The 'tch' grapheme is a trigraph (one sound made up of three letters) used to represent the /ch/ sound. Cut out these letters. How many words can you make containing 'tch'?
Rhyming words: creatures word puzzle
Practise your rhyming and spelling skills by thinking of names of animals that rhyme with each of these words. There could be more than one answer... how many can you identify?
Spelling patterns: silent letters w and k
A Year 2 English wordsearch created by a teacher, which focuses on the silent letters w and k. Examples and answers are included.
Y2 spelling: high frequency words
A list of high frequency words created by an experienced teacher and based on the National Curriculum. Children will need to learn these in Year 2 spelling.
Adding -ies to form the plural
In these nouns the final -y is preceded by a consonant. When the singular word is made plural (when there is more than one) the -y is made into an i and -es is added. Can you complete these sentences?
Spelling words list
Get weekly spelling practice organised with our printable spelling lists, blank and ready to be filled with your child's assigned words. Attach the list to the fridge for quick revision sessions before the weekly spelling test.
Look, Cover, Write and Check spelling words
A blank Look, Cover, Write and Check spelling words list for kids to download and print to practise their weekly spelling words and prepare for tests.
Year 1 spelling tests pack
Reinforce your child's early spelling skills with a pack of simple spelling tests, designed to help them practise the phonics and spelling work they're doing in the classroom using the Look, Cover, Write and Check method.
Year 2 spelling tests pack
Help your child brush up their spelling skills at the end of KS1 with our pack of practice 'tests', designed to help them revise common Y2 spelling patterns and high frequency and exception words.
The ‘tch’ grapheme (Phase 4 phonics)
Can you find the ‘tch’ graphemes in these sentences? Draw a line under them then write your own sentences with these words.
The /or/ sound family (Phase 5 phonics)
There are different ways of writing the sound /or/. Ask a grown-up to cut out the words at the bottom of the page and read them to you without you seeing the spelling. See if you know which grapheme each one uses to represent the /or/sound and write it on the notebooks .
The /ai/ sound: new graphemes (Phase 5 phonics)
Can you draw a line between the word and the corresponding picture. Remember that the ‘ai’ grapheme also makes the /ai/ sound, and so does the split vowel digraph a_e. When you have matched up all the pictures to the words cut them all up into individual words and pictures and mix them up. See if you can match each word to its picture now that you have lots more options.
Split vowel digraph words and sentences (Phase 5 phonics)
Read the following words without an ‘e’, then add an ‘e’ to them and see how it changes the words. Then read these sentences and underline the words that have split vowel digraphs. Now can you write your own sentences including split vowel digraph words?
Split vowel digraph crossword (Phase 5 phonics)
Can you fill in the missing words in the crossword and sentences? Every answer will be a word that is a split vowel digraph.
Reading polysyllabic words (Phase 4 phonics)
Can you read these sentences? When you get to a polysyllabic / long word, cover up the second half of the word. Read the first syllable and then uncover the rest of the word to read it.
Reading consonant blends: gr, tr and sw (Phase 4 phonics)
Read the sentences on these puzzle pieces and see if you can find the matching pictures.
Reading and writing consonant blends: sm fl gl (Phase 4 phonics)
See if you can guess what these pictures are and write the words underneath. All the words start with the consonant blends sm, fl or gl.
Reading adjacent consonants: mp, nt, st and nk (Phase 4 phonics)
This worksheet concentrates on these adjacent consonants: mp nt st nk. Can you write the words next to the pictures, then think of as many rhymes as you can for each word?
Polysyllabic words wordsearch (Phase 4 phonics)
This fun wordsearch will help you to look at all the different syllables in each word.
Polysyllabic words jigsaw puzzle (Phase 4 phonics)
Can you fit these polysyllabic jigsaw puzzle pieces together to make words?
Phonics Connect 4: sp, pl and st (Phase 4 phonics)
This game is a bit like Connect 4, but with words using the adjacent consonants sp pl st.
Phase 5 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 5 phonics)
First read these tricky words then read the following paragraph. Can you highlight all the new tricky words and then answer the questions below?
Phase 4 phonics tricky words practice (Phase 4 phonics)
Cut them out these tricky Phase 4 phonics words and ask your child to read them out. See which ones they do know straight away and separate the ones that they don’t know. Then think of a sentence with one or more of these words and ask your child to find the tricky word that you emphasised.