PDF download of 6 spelling activity booklets used for daily spelling practise in a mixed ability Year 3 class.

Sessions were 5-10 minutes of practise daily centering around phonics and choosing the correct sounds. Spellings get gradually more difficult as the weeks go on.

Weekly practise is as follows:
Monday - highlighting the focus sound
Tuesday - adding sound buttons
Wednesday - sound sort
Thursday - rainbow writing
Friday - spelling test (1 point for correct sound, 1 point for the rest of the word)

Sounds covered in spellings:

Autumn 1 booklet
Week 1: ay/ai
Week 2: ea/ee
Week 3: igh/ie
Week 4: ow/oa
Week 5: long oo/ew/ue
Week 6: short oo/o

Autumn 2 booklet
Week 1: al/ar
Week 2: or/au/aw
Week 3: air/are
Week 4: ir/ur/er
Week 5: ou/ow
Week 6: oi/oy

Spring 1 booklet
Week 1: split diagraphs a_e/e_e
Week 2: split diagraphs i_e/o_e
Week 3: split diagraph u_e (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 4: ire (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 5: ear/ure
Week 6: al/le
Week 7: short ou (/u/)

Spring 2 booklet
Week 1: y making the /i/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 2: ey/e
Week 3: sure/ture
Week 4: ei/ey
Week 5: ch making the /k/ sound (wordsearch instead of sound sort as just one sound this week)
Week 6: que/gue

Summer 1 booklet
Week 1: ff/ph
Week 2: sc/c
Week 3: cious/tious
Week 4: tion/sion
Week 5: wh/wr

Summer 2 booklet
Week 1: prefix re-
Week 2: prefix dis-
Week 3: prefix mis-
Week 4: suffix -ly
Week 5: suffix -er
Week 6: homophones
NB: As Summer 2 booklet is all one sound per week the Wednesday activity is a wordsearch not sound sort.

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