A Note about Spelling

 

       Now that your child is ready for first grade, spelling becomes an important part of the language arts experience.  First your child will experiment with   “inventive” or “temporary” spelling.  Then your child will begin to learn certain conventions of spelling (phonics), as well as how to correctly spell many basic sight words.  As more words and skills are committed to memory, you will soon see your child begin to use some of the basic sight words in his/her writing, along with using many of the sounds we have talked about in class.  Your child will not spell every word correctly before second grade, but his/her spelling should be very readable.

 

 

 

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Some phonetic rules and sounds your child will be learning about in spelling are:

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Consonant sounds

Short vowels

Long vowels

(Two vowels walking)

(Silent e at the end)

Consonant digraphs

ch, sh, th, wh, ng, ck

Vowel digraphs

oo, ou, ow, au, aw, oi, oy

R controlled vowels

er, ir, ur, or, ar

Consonant blends

Rules

When to use c, k, ck, ge, dge, tch

 

 

Below are 35 high frequency spelling words for first grade.

 

a

all

and

are

as

at

be

but

by

for

from

had

have

he

his

I

in

is

it

not

of

on

one

or

that

the

they

this

to

was

were

what

when

with

you