No word can be written without containing a vowel.
The fast-track learners move on.
After a little more teaching so do the slower learners, but you will know if they have an auditory deficit of a visual deficit or both. So, teaching can be targeted for this group now.
Only those digraphs which are more difficult to sound are taught.
Then the learning is tested.
Children need to be taught how to listen to a word.
Listening for the beginning sound is easier than listening to the ending sound.
The hooks tap, hen, pin, dog, run are used as hooks to teach; a book of words for each vowel sound.
The words chosen are high count writing words.
Identify the vowel sound,
then the beginning sound,
then the ending sound.
See and hear and put together. The skill for reading.
so that all the learners get it right first time.
The c sound after the short a or e or i or o or u vowel is written ck.
In Stage 1, back, sack, duck but now the children are looking for words with a short vowel and ck.
They love to find other words to fit their rule.
Many children don’t know what that means.
The five Sentence Pack books get is right for them; a confidence booster.
the, all ball called, walk, wall, want, was, water, what, come, once, other, are all easily found in My First Spellcheck.
Getting it right first time is so much easier than trying to correct a mis-spelling later.
The alphabet sounds and how to use them, digraphs and useful letter groups and how to use them,
how to put together what they see and hear,
how to listen effectively,
how to use hooks to learn for themselves,
the use of the ‘belonging to’ apostrophe,
how to read and write 115 words with transferable skill,
to read and write words at home,
some spelling rules and patterns.