Objective Guidance Word List Teaching Sequence Investigate Endings which sound is common after official, special, artificial, –cial like /ʃəl/ a vowel letter and partial, confidential, tial after a consonant essential Sort the words by their end sound. Can they identify how they know? letter, but there are What sound comes before the ending? some exceptions. Closed sort or speed sort-cial or Exceptions: initial, financial, commercial, Discuss and possibly sort by word class provincial (the spelling of the last three is clearly related Challenge to finance, commerce and province). Can they think of any topic words that fit with the rule? Word hunt: From a text/ book or using Ace Dictionary or within normal lessons Collaborative test: Read the example words and ask pairs to attempt to spell them. Send one partner off to another pair to discuss and feedback. Word web: Various words and share Reflect Rules poster Dictation of paragraph including all the words learnt so far
Objective Guidance Word List Teaching Sequence Endings which sound like /ʃəl/ –cial is common after a vowel letter and after a consonant letter, but there are some exceptions. Exceptions: initial, financial, commercial, provincial (the spelling of the last three is clearly related to finance, commerce and province). official, special, artificial, partial, confidential, essential Investigate Sort the words by their end sound. Can they identify how they know? What sound comes before the ending? Closed sort or speed sort-cial or tial Discuss and possibly sort by word class Challenge Can they think of any topic words that fit with the rule? Word hunt: From a text/ book or using Ace Dictionary or within normal lessons Collaborative test: Read the example words and ask pairs to attempt to spell them. Send one partner off to another pair to discuss and feedback. Word web: Various words and share Reflect Rules poster Dictation of paragraph including all the words learnt so far
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