Spelling Knowledge Know that spoken sounds and Know that regular one-syllable Understand how to use Understand how to use for spelling including words can be written down words are made up of letters digraphs, long vowels, blends sound–letter relationships and knowledge about how the using letters of the alphabet and common letter clusters and silent letters to spell knowledge of spelling rules, sounds of words are and how to write some high- that correspond to the sounds words, and use morphemes compound words, prefixes, represented by various letters frequency sight words and heard, and how to use visual and syllabification to break up suffixes, morphemes and less and knowledge of irregular known words Know how to memory to write simple words and use visual common letter combinations, spellings and spelling rules use onset and rime to spell words Recognise memory to write irregular for example ‘tion’ Recognise words and know how to use words Recognise common high sight words morphemes in word families prefixes and suffixes and how for example ‘play’ in ‘played’ they change a word’s meaning and ‘playing’ Phonemic awareness (sounds Recognise rhymes, syllables Manipulate sounds in spoken Recognise most sound–letter This sequence ends at Year 2 of language) Basic knowledge and sounds (phonemes) in words including phoneme matches including silent level of sounds of language and how spoken words deletion and substitution letters, vowel/consonant these are combined in spoken digraphs and many less words common sound–letter knowledge combinations Alphabet knowledge Recognise the letters of the Recognise sound–letter This sequence ends at Year 1 letter The written code of English alphabet and know there are matches including common level and (the letters) and how these are lower and upper case letters vowel and consonant digraphs combined in words and consonant blends Sound Understand the variability of sound–letter matches Sub Focus of thread Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Strand
Spelling Knowledge for spelling including knowledge about how the sounds of words are represented by various letters and knowledge of irregular spellings and spelling rules Know that spoken sounds and words can be written down using letters of the alphabet and how to write some sight words and known words Know how to use onset and rime to spell words Know that regular one-syllable words are made up of letters and common letter clusters that correspond to the sounds heard, and how to use visual memory to write words Recognise and know how to use morphemes in word families for example ‘play’ in ‘played’ and ‘playing’ Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell words, and use morphemes and syllabification to break up simple words and use visual memory to write irregular words Recognise common prefixes and suffixes and how they change a word’s meaning Understand how to use sound–letter relationships and knowledge of spelling rules, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, morphemes and less common letter combinations, for example ‘tion’ Recognise high frequency sight words Sound and letter knowledge Phonemic awareness (sounds of language) Basic knowledge of sounds of language and how these are combined in spoken words Recognise rhymes, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words Manipulate sounds in spoken words including phoneme deletion and substitution Recognise most sound–letter matches including silent letters, vowel/consonant digraphs and many less common sound–letter combinations This sequence ends at Year 2 level Alphabet knowledge The written code of English (the letters) and how these are combined in words Recognise the letters of the alphabet and know there are lower and upper case letters Recognise sound–letter matches including common vowel and consonant digraphs and consonant blends Understand the variability of sound–letter matches This sequence ends at Year 1 level Sub Strand Focus of thread Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 high-
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