Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of GPCs learnt in the Year 2 unit 'Year 2: Alternative GPCs for long vowels'. Pupils learn to spell homophones, near-homophones and new GPCs for consonant sounds, learning relevant rules and how to apply new spellings in a sentence context. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 2 unit 'Year 2: Suffixes', in which pupils will learn spelling rules associated with suffixes.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The primary grapheme phoneme correspondence (GPC) for all 40+ phonemes.
- The alternative representations of the long vowel sounds and some consonants.
- The ability to blend and segment words.
- The spelling of common exception words (English Appendix 1).
- The ability to divide words into syllables.
- The knowledge outlined in the unit 'Year 2: Spelling 1'
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of GPCs learnt in the Year 2 unit 'Year 2: Alternative GPCs for long vowels'. Pupils learn to spell homophones, near-homophones and new GPCs for consonant sounds, learning relevant rules and how to apply new spellings in a sentence context. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 2 unit 'Year 2: Suffixes', in which pupils will learn spelling rules associated with suffixes.
Prior knowledge requirements
- The primary grapheme phoneme correspondence (GPC) for all 40+ phonemes.
- The alternative representations of the long vowel sounds and some consonants.
- The ability to blend and segment words.
- The spelling of common exception words (English Appendix 1).
- The ability to divide words into syllables.
- The knowledge outlined in the unit 'Year 2: Spelling 1'
Spelling
Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones
In this unit, pupils learn to spell homophones, near-homophones and new consonant spellings.
18 lessons in unit
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