As a school, we use 'Read Write Inc. Spelling' throughout Years 2 to 6.
Read Write Inc Spelling is an interactive programme which teaches spellings in a fun and engaging way. Accessed through the Oxford Owl portal, each unit is introduced with a short video, followed by a range of activities to support the pupils in learning and remembering common spelling patterns and rules in order to help them recall spellings as well as teaching exceptions to these rules.
The teaching of spelling naturally follows on from the Read Write Inc phonics programme taught between Reception and Year 2 at Coleshill Heath School. Therefore, pupils are already confident at using dots (for individual sounds) and dashes (for digraphs) and prefixes and suffixes can be added to root words to help them to spell with greater accuracy, understanding and confidence.
As well as teaching children the spelling rules that are outlined in the National Curriculum, Read Write Inc Spelling teaches children how to spell High Frequency words. These are words that are listed in the English Curriculum that children need to learn how to read and spell. These words do not follow a typical spelling pattern and are taught in memorable ways such as through the use of mnemonics, looking for the sticky letter, looking for a word within the word and rapping the spelling to a beat.
