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Using Spelling Shed’s Baseline Assessments

Spelling Shed has launched baseline assessments, designed for use at the beginning of the academic year. How to Assign Spelling Shed’s Baseline Assessments This handy video shows you how to assign Spelling Shed’s baseline assessments and how to view data. Assigning baseline assessments is easy.  1. Create an assignment like you usually would by clicking …

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Using Spelling Shed alongside your phonics scheme

Does your Systematic Synthetic Phonics scheme meet the National Curriculum statutory requirements for KS1? Does it prepare your children for the more complex code they will encounter in their reading and writing in Year 3 and beyond? The simple answer is that almost all Government Validated Phonics Schemes do not adequately cover the National Curriculum …

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Etymology

How to use etymological information can improve understanding in reading and aid spelling Morphology and etymology go hand in hand and when joined together with orthographical mapping, they become a powerful trio in the learning of spellings.  Other words with Greek origins: dolphin elephant alphabet hyphen triumph How do we use etymology in Spelling Shed …

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How to use Orthography to get the Most out of Phonics for Spelling

What is Orthography? ‘The conventional spelling system of a language.’ ‘The study of spelling and how letters combine to represent sounds and form words.’ (Oxford English Dictionary) High quality SSP ensuring children have a solid foundational knowledge of GPCs The first way we use orthography is when teaching pupils phonics in KS1. We advocate the …

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