Boost Spelling Skills, Book 2

The BoostSpelling Skills series provides strategies to improve primary school pupils' spellingskills, making them more confident readers and writers.

Boost SpellingSkills 2 contains strategies, tips and practice activities tohelp lower KS2 pupils develop and improve word pattern recognition. It isclosely aligned to the statutory requirements and spelling word lists in theNational Curriculum in England for Years 3 and 4.

Teaching children to spell isessential if we want them to become confident writers. Good spellers can writemore fluently, as they don't have to pause to consider how each word should bespelt. Furthermore, children with good spelling skills are more likely to makeadventurous vocabulary choices and be better at reading.

The book focuses onencouraging children to investigate prefixes, root words and suffixes which arethe building blocks of words. For each letter pattern, the book containsteacher tips, word lists, reading activities and worksheets, providing ampleopportunities for pupils to learn, practise and reinforce their spelling.Targeted dictation exercises provide opportunities for consolidation andassessment.

Tried and testedstrategies, such as breaking down words by syllables, looking for words withinwords and memory joggers, will help pupils to tackle unknown words and developgood spelling skills.

The flexible worksheets canbe used both with groups of children or individual pupils and are particularlybeneficial for providing reinforcement for slower learners or those childrenwho are struggling with spelling.