Overview:

This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love.  Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.

Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.

There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.

Coverage:

Common Exception Words

you, put, push, are, to, of

Spelling Rules and Patterns

The /v/ sound at the end of words

Division of words into syllables

Phonics

Non-words

Words spelled with single vowel graphemes, some representing short vowel sounds and some representing long ones