KS: Lower KS2
Year Group: Year 3
Literary Theme: From Mystery to Discovery
Author(s): David Wiesner
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Flotsam by David Wiesner. 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.
bicycle, material, occasion(ally), recent, separate, strange, various
More prefixes: sub–, auto– and re– and their effect on a word
Words with endings sounding like /ʒə/ or /tʃə/
A Spelling Seed is available for Flotsam.
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Flotsam by David Wiesner. 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.
bicycle, material, occasion(ally), recent, separate, strange, various
More prefixes: sub–, auto– and re– and their effect on a word
Words with endings sounding like /ʒə/ or /tʃə/
View Flotsam Spelling SeedA Home Learning Branch is available for Flotsam.
This is a Home Learning Branch for Flotsam. 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.
View Flotsam Home Learning Branch