Word Bank Copymasters by Letterland

28 worksheets

28 photocopiable worksheets plus a pupil record sheet and instructions make this book ideal for children learning about digraphs, consonant blends and trigraphs. Featuring the grapheme on the left plus word examples and space for further words to be written on the right, these copymasters are a useful vocabulary-building aid, too.

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How to use these copymasters These Letterland Word Bank Copymasters provide practice and reinforcement for all the essential recurring English spelling patterns. They are intended to consolidate learning in the Letterland Phonics Teacher’s Guide, and assume knowledge of a-z and A-Z shapes and sounds.

Create an impact Enlarge each copymaster to 141% (from A4 to A3) to display on a flip chart or wall, making a highly visual and memorable focal point as you teach the relevant sound. Brainstorm for more words that contain the sound as a group or whole class activity. You could even enlarge selected pictograms further and mount them to create a stronger focal point. Children can then contribute to the display with their own words which contain particular sounds. Encourage skim reading to find examples.

Make a book Provide a folder so that each child can collect their own copies of each sheet and build a personal record of all the phonemes and example words they have learned so far.

Line up the spelling choices When teaching, for example, the long vowel sounds, you could create a wall display showing the variety of spelling patterns commonly used to spell each long sound.

Teaching order These Copymasters are ordered in groups of similar sounds. If you are using the Letterland Phonics Teacher’s Guide the example words listed are fully decodable. Feel free to use the copymasters flexibly. Children are exposed to new words every day, and in the Letterland context you can share the story explanation for a new sound to suit your needs.

There is a unique difference between the Letterland approach and other phonic approaches to teaching digraphs. Typically the challenge for children when they see a new digraph is to: • take note of a two letter sequence • override their initial learning • memorise a new sound • apply it to an unknown word to decode it. With Letterland teaching, instead of having to override their initial learning, children are able to utilise it to remember the new sound. Each new story explanation is an extension of the alphabet story logic, confirming the initial learning and then building on it. Now the Letterland friends are simply interacting because they meet each other in a word! By sharing the Letterland story logic as the need arises you can create an appetite for more phonics. The typical result is earlier success in reading and spelling.

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Pupil Record Sheet 1 Name:

Date: Copymaster Can read (R) and spell (S)

Spelling Pattern

Shape

As in the word... page ref.

Consonant blends with s

scab

skip

spot

stuck

smash

snap

swim

block

clock

flag

glad

plug

slug

brick

crab

drip

frog

grin

press

track

duck

puff

spill

miss

chip

ring

shop

that

thing

phone

when

who

write

skated

smiled

hoped

Consonant blends with l

Consonant blends with r

Consonant sounds

Consonant digraphs

Endings

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words with this phoneme

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Pupil Record Sheet 2 Name:

Date: Copymaster

Spelling Pattern

Shape

As in the word... page ref.

Long ā

a_e

make

rain

say

e_e

these

bee

sea

baby

i_e

tie

igh

night

o_e

home

boat

show

u_e

cube

moon

grew, few

blue

farm

for

girl

fur

her

air

fair

ear

year

how

out

coin

boy

book

put

saw

cause

all

ball

son

-ve

have

Long ē

Long ī

Long ō

Long ū

r-controlled

Further spellings

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Name:

Date:

Consonant blends with s Clever Cat makes her usual sound beside Sammy Snake.

ab an

So does Kicking King.

ip id

So does Peter Puppy.

ot in

So does Talking Tess.

uck and

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Name:

Date:

Consonant blends with s Munching Mike makes his usual sound beside Sammy Snake.

So does Noisy Nick.

So does Walter Walrus.

ash all

ap iff

im ing

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Date:

Long ō Silent Magic e’s sparks make Mr O appear and say his name.

h m sl p

Two vowels out walking. So Mr O does the talking.

b t t st

Mr O stops Walter Walrus splashing. He cries, “O!”.

sh bel

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Name:

Date:

Long ū Silent Magic e’s sparks make Mr U appear and say his name, “U!”, (or “oo”).

c b J n

The Boot Twin says, “Oo, I have your boots”.

m n shamp

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Name:

Date:

Long ū When Eddy squirts the walrus with water, Walter cries, “Ew! You!”

gr f

Two vowels out walking. So Mr U does the talking.

bl gl

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Name:

Date:

r-controlled Arthur Ar steals apples and reports back to Red Robot with his last name, “Ar!”

When Orvil Or steals oranges he calls out, “Or!”

f m g den

f b n

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Date:

r-controlled Irving Ir steals ink and calls out, “Ir!”

g l sh t

Urgent Ur steals umbrellas and calls out, “Ur!”

f Sat day

Ernest Er steals elephants and calls out, “Er!”

h sist

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