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Check-list for spelling and reading

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1. How to sing slowly to hear sounds in words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. The 26 letters of the ABC in alphabetical order. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Basic sounds of the letters of the alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Two sounds for C, G + Y, as in circus garage yabby . . . . 5. Two letters can make one sound - ch sh th wh ph ng 6. Letters have upper case and lower case. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. Letters can be different sizes and shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. How to switch letters around to make other words e.g. hit bit fit 9. The 5 vowel sounds a e i o u and their usual spellings 10. How to join sounds to make words like hot zip jam 11. The 5 vowel sounds A E I O U and their most common spellings . . . . 12. The 5 vowel sounds ar er air or aw and common spellings 13. The 4 vowels sounds ow oy oo (as in boot) and oo (as in book) and their common spellings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14. Add 'e' to make long vowels in words, as in make Pete like hope cute. . 15. How to look at words to see if spellings seem sensible 16. How to look at irregular spellings of words. . . . . . . . . 17. How to make sense of spellings that seem silly 18. What Old English spellings often look like . . . . . . . . 19. What French spellings often look like . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. What Greek spellings often look like . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21. How to read and spell long words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. What Latin beginnings and ends of words are like . . . . . . . . 23. Latin parts can help show meaning of long words . . . . . . . . . 24. Basic spelling system for the 19 English vowel sounds 25. The 70 most common 'sight' words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26. I use what I know about sounds,words, guessing and checking to work out the sense of what I read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27. I re-read books and songs that I like again and again, and that will make my reading easier and faster. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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