Year 7 Spelling Scheme of Work
This series of starters is designed to address the Year 7 Framework objectives for
spelling (word level 1 – 12). 7w13 is not addressed here as it needs to be an integral
part of a unit of work neither is 7w7 as it is assumed that this is addressed in the
school’s LAC policy.
The starters are designed to be used as a discrete part of a three or four part lesson and
provide a starting point for the teaching of spelling techniques. These should
obviously be reinforced in other parts of the lesson and as an ongoing process.
Teachers should use their knowledge of particular classes when deciding the extent to
which they explore a given objective, ie you may not want to use all 46 starters.
Resources used in this scheme are:
Sue Hackman, Alan Howe, Patrick Scott, Hodder English Starters: Word Level
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2001) ISBN 0 340 79072 5
Glenne Hutchings and Paula Ryan, Basic Skills Spelling (Hodder and Stoughton,
2001) ISBN 0 340 78114 9
Writing Challenge (DfES) Ref no. 0314/2003
Schools will need to obtain these texts to use this scheme. It is also recommended that
pupils keep a spelling log.
It is also useful to inform other departments about the spelling strategies pupils are
learning each week to enable reinforcement across the curriculum as a part of LAC
policy.
Lesson Objective
1
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
2
3
4
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
7w9
Activity
Over the next few lessons pupils will be introduced to a
variety of techniques (VAK) which they will then be asked to
evaluate to establish their own preferences. Pupils should
therefore be encouraged to try these techniques in other
classes and at home.
Visualisation techniques to remember key information.
Basic Skills Spelling pg 1.
Try as a class with one or two volunteers
Class try method in pairs.
Visualisation 2
Basic Skills Spelling pg 2 and 3, a variety of other methods
for pupils to trial.
Aural techniques.
Basic Skills Spelling page 4 (as lesson 1)
Aural techniques 2
Basic Skills Spelling pg 5, a variety of other methods for
pupils to trial.
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6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Phonemes
and syllables
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
7w9
Phonemes
and syllables
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
Learn ways
to remember
spellings
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
Long A
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
Long A
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
Long E
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
Long I
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
Long O
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
Long U
7w1
Kinesthetic techniques
Basic Skills Spelling page 6 (as lesson 1)
Kinesthetic 2
Basic Skills Spelling pg 7, a variety of other methods for
pupils to trial.
7w9 is also taught in Hodder English Starters I6 pg 58
Summary and evaluation of techniques explored.
Basic Skills Spelling pg 8
Using mini whiteboards, pupils draw the symbol of the
learning style that has worked for them (VAK) from the
worksheet on page 8 and show teacher.
Tell partner which method they have found most effective and
record in spelling log.
Hodder English Starters Activity A1 pg 1.
Hodder English Starters Activity A2 pg 2.
The card activity can be delivered using the worksheet as it
stands and highlighters or crayons to sort words into
categories.
Hodder English Starters Activity A3 pg 2 and 3.
Hodder English Starters Activity A4 pg 3.
For no. 5 pupils should use their preferred spelling technique
from lesson 8.
Hodder English Starters Activity A5 pg 4
Hodder English Starters Activity A6 pg 4 and 5.
Hodder English Starters Activity A7 pg 5 and 6.
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17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Correct
vowel
choices: ow
and ou
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices: oy
and oi
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices: air,
are, ear, ere,
eir
7w5
Homophones
7w5
Homophones
7w5
Homophones
7w5
Homophones
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices: aw
and au
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices: oor
and ore
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices: ie
and ei
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
Vowels and
double
consonents
7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
softening c
Hodder English Starters Activity A8 pg 6 and 7.
Hodder English Starters A9 pg 7 and 8.
Writing Challenge Spelling Mini-lesson 1 pg 51 (They’re,
their, there)
Writing Challenge Spelling Mini-lesson 2 pg 52 (Two, too,
to) or Hodder English Starters G2 pg 49.
Hodder English Starters Activity G1 no 5 pg 49.
Hodder English Starters Activity G3 pg 50.
Hodder English Starters Activity A10 pg 8.
Highlighters or crayons can be used rather than cutting up
worksheet for card sort.
Hodder English Starters Activity A11 pg 8 and 9 numbers 14.
Hodder English Starters Activity A12.
Use attached resource sheet blown up to A3 (labelled ‘Lesson
24’) instead of Resource sheet A12.1.
For no. 5, pupils could write ei and ie on either side of a
whiteboard or scrap paper.
Hodder English Starters A13 pg 10
Hodder English Starters A14 pg 11
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7w1
Correct
vowel
choices:
softening g
7w2
Pluralisation
7w2
Pluralisation
7w3
Word
Endings: er,
ing, ed, est
7w10: Word
families
7w3
Word
Endings: ful
7w10: Word
families
Hodder English Starters A15 pg 12
32
7w3
Word
Endings:
‘shun’
7w10: Word
families
Hodder English Starters Activity C5 pg 25 and 26
33
7w3
Word
Endings:
‘shun’
7w10: Word
families
7w4
Prefixes
7w4
Prefixes
7w4
Prefixes
7w4
Prefixes
7w6
Apostrophes:
omissions
7w6
Apostrophes:
ownership
7w6
Apostrophes:
Hodder English Starters Activity C6 pg 26
28
29
30
31
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
Basic Skills Spelling pg 80
Basic Skills Spelling pg 81
Writing Challenge Spelling Mini-lesson 5, pg 56
Writing Challenge Spelling Mini-lesson 6, pg 57
Hodder English Starters Activity D1 pg 35
Please note that in our copy, this page is in Section C!
Hodder English Starters Activity D3 pg 36
Hodder English Starters Activity D4 pg 38
Hodder English Starters Activity D5 pg 39
Writing Challenge Punctuation Mini-lesson 1 pg 119
Writing Challenge Punctuation Mini-lesson 2 pg 120
Writing Challenge Punctuation Mini-lesson 3 pg 121
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42
43
44
45
46
its and it’s
7w8
Personal
spelling
7w11
Strategies
for learning
spellings
7w10
Analogy:
Root words
7w10
Analogy:
Root words
7w10
Analogy:
Root words
7w11
Strategies
for learning
7w12
Using a
dictionary
Pupils identify two mis-spelt words in recently marked work
using highlighters. They then use their identified spelling
techniques from lesson 8 to learn words.
This should be repeated regularly when work is returned.
Hodder English Starters E1 pg 41
Hodder English Starters E2 pg 41 and 42
Hodder English Starters E3 pg 42
Activity E4 pg 42 and 43 could be used as an extension for
able groups
Writing Challenge Spelling Mini-lesson 10 pg 61
Hodder English Starters I7 pg 59 or any suitable dictionary
game.
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piece
sieve
friend
believe
priest
mischief
fierce
chief
pierce
shriek
cashier
thief
review
niece
shield
obedient
ancient
patient
science
conscience
quiet
die
diet
grief
relief
tie
lie
either
reign
rein
perceive
receive
vein
deceive
freight
neighbour
conceit
neither
weird
protein
their
eight
foreign
leisure
weight
ceiling
sovereign
height
medieval
siege
brief
hygiene
ingredient
beige
pie
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