Spelling Made Fun Pupil Workbooks – A Spelling Programme for Primary Schools:
This spelling series of pupil workbooks has 7 levels (Books A to G) covering ages 5 to 12. Book A is intended for senior infants, Book B for 1st class, Book C for 2nd class and so on. Each book has weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings.
FEATURES OF EACH BOOK:
Book A (Senior Infants):
- 18 weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings, wordsearches, phonic activities, cloze procedure exercises, opportunities for colouring, drawing and generating their own sentences using the words in the spelling units
- Spelling lists include words relevant to the pupil writing. CVC words, high frequency words, word families – old, -ing, -and, -ent, -ook, – all, -ill, -ive, -ike, -eep, -een
Dictation is an essential element of this programme. It is designed to accompany the Spelling Made Fun with Visual Patterns – Teacher Guide – Book 1 (Lower Primary) – Level 1.
Book B (First Class):
- 32 weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings
- Spelling lists include words relevant to the pupils’ writing. Initial and final consonant blends –ill, -ell, -ide, -ite, -ine, -est, -ate, -ame, -ool, -ss, -ff, -end, -ank, -ent, -est, -and, -ong, -and, -ick, -uck families, -ar, -or, -ur, and –ir
Dictation is an essential element of this programme. It is designed to accompany the Spelling Made Fun with Visual Patterns – Teacher Guide – Book 1 (Lower Primary) – Level 2.
Book C (Second Class):
- 32 weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings
- Spelling lists include words relevant to the pupils’ writing. Alphabetical order, compound words and homophones . Spelling lists include
oo, ee , oi , oy ,-ay, -ow ,-ew, ir , or, – th , words . families -amp , -ump, – ight, -ough , -aught , -age, -eat, -eam, -ead, -eal -ear, -ail, -air, -ain , -ale,-ave -oke, -old-ice
Dictation is an essential element of this programme. It is designed to accompany the Spelling Made Fun with Visual Patterns Teachers Guide – Book 1 (Lower Primary) – Level 1.
Book D (Third Class):
- 32 weekly units of work with 16 spellings in each unit . Each unit has 2 pages of fun activities to reinforce the spelling
Dictation is an essential element of the programme . It is designed to accompany the Spelling Made Fun with Visual Patterns – Teacher Guide – Book 2 (Middle Primary) – Level 4.
Book E (Fourth Class):
- 32 weekly units of work with 16 spellings in each unit . Each unit has 2 pages of fun activities to reinforce the spelling
- The activities include crosswords, close procedure exercises, spelling rules- plural rules, phonic activities, rules when adding the suffixes, full, ing, ed , spelling tips, mnemonics, word searches, alphabetical order, homophones, homonyms, prefixes, suffixes, proof reading, word shapes, segmenting words into syllables, matching phrases to make sentences and superlative adjectives
Dictation is an essential element of the programme . It is designed to accompany the Spelling Made Fun with Visual Patterns – Teacher Guide – Book 2 (Middle Primary) – Level 5.
Book F (Fifth Class):
- 32 weekly units of work with 16 spellings in each unit. Each unit has 2 pages of fun activities to reinforce the spelling
- The wordlists include words beginning with sw, shr and thr , ph says f words, ch says k words, words with silent l combination, the suffixes –tion, -ect, -ity, -ic,- cial, -our, -sion, -ible, -tive, -ment, -el, -al,-ate, -gue, -ious, -ous, -ant . prefix dis and countries
- The activities include crosswords, close procedure exercises , phonic activities , spelling rules – eg i before e except after c, plural rules , rules when adding suffixes , spelling tips , word searches, homophones, mnemonics, finding little words in the bigger words , putting words into sentences, unjumbling sentences, matching phrases to make sentences, segmenting words into syllables, matching words to their definitions, synonyms, antonyms and alphabetical order, activities on collective and proper nouns, adverbs and adjectives
Dictation is an essential element of the programme. It is designed to accompany the Spelling Made Fun with Visual Patterns – Teacher Guide – Book 3 (Higher) – Level 6.
Book G (Sixth Class):
- 32 weekly units of work with 16 spellings in each unit. Each unit has 2 pages of fun activities to reinforce the spelling
- The wordlists include suffixes –able, -ssion, -ful, -al, -ion, -ment, -ance, -ate, -ant, -ard, -ery, -ic, and- ary, the prefixes per, mis, dis, and ex, silent letter combinations with d and n, homophones and the counties in Ireland
- The activities include crosswords, close procedure exercises , phonic activities , spelling rules –eg –cial or -tial, plural rules , rules when adding suffixes ,adding prefixes, spelling tips , word searches, word shapes, homophones, mnemonics, finding little words in the bigger words , putting words into sentences, unjumbling sentences, matching phrases to make sentences, segmenting words into syllables, matching words to their definitions, using a thesaurus to find synonyms, antonyms and alphabetical order, activities on collective and proper nouns, adverbs and adjectives
Dictation is an essential element of the programme. It is designed to accompany the Spelling Made Fun with Visual Patterns – Teacher Guide – Book 3 (Higher) – Level 7.
