primary education

Title Image: How to Launch and Relaunch Spelling Shed with Dress as a Word Day! Images include a boy dressed in a football kit, a lady dressed in a tropical outfit, a lady dressed in pyjamas and a boy with bubble wrap around him.

How to Launch and Relaunch Spelling Shed with Dress as a Word Day!

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Big words, bold outfits and buzzing classrooms. Spelling Shed Launch or Relaunch Day is all about enthusiasm for vocabulary. It’s more than rummaging around and getting creative to dress up as a word, it’s the start of encouraging curiosity with words, showing pupils that spelling is genuinely fun.   From clever puns to full-character transformations, teachers and pupils bring language to life in ways that last …

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How to Teach Spelling Effectively – Part Four: Morphology and Etymology 

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What is morphology and does it really matter? Where does etymology fit into the teaching of spelling? Here are some key takeaways.   You can read part 1 of this blog series here, part 2 here and part 3 here.  What is morphology?  ‘Morphe’ means ‘form’ and ‘-ology’ means ‘the study of’, so morphology is the study of how words are formed.   A …

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How to Teach Spelling Effectively – Part Two: Phonics for All (8 Key Takeaways)

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When we think of phonics, we might think about our systematic, synthetic phonics programme that often ends at Key Stage One, but should phonics really end there? The simple answer is no. Phonics is a key part of reading and spelling beyond Key Stage One. Here are eight key takeaways of why phonics is important for all children.   Read part one of this blog …

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