Supporting Children with Fun Rules for Tricky Spellings

An Illustrated Workbook

Georgie Cooney, Molly Hickey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000026306
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

*This workbook should be used alongside the storybook, Who Put the Spell into Spelling?*

This illustrated workbook has been created to support learners who, after acquiring the basics of reading and writing, have struggled to organically grasp the rules that govern spelling in the English language. Each photocopiable worksheet is designed to support a key spelling rule, explored in the colourful storybook Who Put the Spell into Spelling? This activity workbook is designed to be used alongside the storybook.

Key features include:

• Twenty-two activity worksheets designed to help learners understand and practise key spelling rules
• Activities designed to support skills in reading, spelling and writing
• Quirky illustrations designed to make the rules come to life

Developed with feedback from teachers and students, this is an invaluable resource for teachers and parents looking to support learners who find spelling a challenge, or who are learning English as an additional language.

Worksheet 1

How well do we know our letter names and sounds?

This involves you, as the adult, listening to activities 1 and 2 and then delivering names and sounds in activities 3 and 4. Make a note of any weaknesses and try to reinforce the teaching of these names and sounds throughout the story.

Adult: Letters have names and sounds. Let’s see how well you know them.

1. Please say out loud the names of these letters in this order.

(All of these should be names as we hear th...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Worksheet 1 – How well do we know our letter names and sounds?
• Worksheet 2 – Rule 1: Magic E makes the other vowel sounds say their names
• Worksheet 3 – Rule 2: V before E at the end of words
• Worksheet 4 – Rule 3: Y says the name of ‘i’ at the end of words
• Worksheet 5 – Rule 4: Y says the name of ‘e’ at the end of words
• Worksheet 6 – Rule 5: Doubling L, S, Z and F after a short vowel sound
• Worksheet 7 – Rule 6: C before K after a short vowel sound
• Worksheet 8 – Rule 7: T, C and H after a short vowel sound
• Worksheet 9 – Rule 8: S before H after a short vowel sound
• Worksheet 10 – Rule 9: S makes plurals and helps verbs agree
• Worksheet 11 – Rule 10: E and S make plurals and help verbs agree (after hissing sounds)
• Worksheet 12 – Rule 11: F is replaced by VES when making plurals
• Worksheet 13 – Rule 12: I, E and S make plurals
• Worksheet 14 – Rule 13: O can end some words
• Worksheet 15 – Rule 14: A can introduce words
• Worksheet 16 – Rule 16: ‘I’ is a word on its own
• Worksheet 17 – Rule 17: I before E except after C
• Worksheet 18 – Rule 18: Q before U
• Worksheet 19 – Rule 19: W can change vowel sounds
• Worksheet 20 – Rule 20: T can change irregular verbs into the past
• Worksheet 21 – Rule 21: Copycat C
• Worksheet 22 – Rule 22: Y’s sound comes at the beginning of words
• Glossary