KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 6
Literary Theme: Utopia vs. Dystopia
Author(s): Polly Ho-Yen
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen. 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.
disastrous, explanation, mischievous, vegetable, variety
Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious
Words ending in –able and –ible, ably and –ibly
A Spelling Seed is available for Boy in the Tower.
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen. 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.
disastrous, explanation, mischievous, vegetable, variety
Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious
Words ending in –able and –ible, ably and –ibly
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This is a Home Learning Branch for Boy in the Tower. These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots. They include purposeful writing suggestions, links to the wider curriculum so that texts can be used across other subjects, key questions as well as spelling or phonics investigations.
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