Sound Waves

This year we are working in partnership to assist children in further developing their spelling skills and knowledge using the Soundwaves Spelling resource across the school. The focus for Year 1 to Year 6 for next week and Week 6 is -

Week 5 –

We usually use ‘k’ for aner all other vowel sounds at the end of single-syllable words (e.g. soak, cheek, book, dark, fork) (Helpful hint)

We onen use ‘k’ before ‘e’ or ‘i’ (e.g. keep, ke\le, kiss, king, skip). Before other le\ers, we onen use ‘c’ (e.g. cup, cost, clap, call, card) (Helpful hint)

We usually use ‘c’ for before (e.g. clock, clean). We usually use ‘c’ for before (e.g. cry, crash) (Helpful hint)

We usually use ‘c’ at the end of words with more than one syllable (e.g. public, music, garlic, traffic, electric) (Helpful hint)

We usually use ‘q’ and ‘u’ for (e.g. quit, queen, quack, squid, squash) (Helpful hint)

We usually use ‘ck’ for aner short vowel sounds at the end of single-syllable words (e.g. back, check, kick, sock, luck)

We can use ‘x’ for the two sounds (e.g. six, box, wax, next, sixty) (Helpful hint). The grapheme ‘x’ can also represent only (e.g. excel, except)

Week 6 –

‘E’ is used at the start and in the middle of words, but never at the end of words (e.g. effort, le\uce)

The grapheme ‘ea’ for is used in a small percentage of words (e.g. head, ready, weather)

The grapheme ‘ai’ is an unusual way to represent (e.g. said, again)

The grapheme ‘ie’ in the word ‘friend’ is an unusual way to represent ‘E’.

Remember –

All students from Year 1 to Year 6 are able to log into Soundwaves with their class code.

Class codes are available from classroom teachers.