Spelling

At Wodensfield, children are taught to spell through the Read Write Inc. (RWI) Spelling programme. The scheme is used from Year 2 to Year 6 and involves the teaching of the statutory spelling words from the National Curriculum (2014). Although the teaching of phoneme-grapheme correspondence underpins this programme, it also develops children’s knowledge of word families, how suffixes impact upon root words, and provides mnemonics to remember the trickiest spellings.

The teaching revolves around instruction (with the help of online alien characters), partner and group practice, and competitive group challenges that help children commit new words to memory.

The website below provides an overview of the scheme. The three documents below also show how the National Curriculum spelling rules map across to the RWI Spelling programme for each teaching phase: Year 2, Years 3-4 and Years 5-6.

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/programmes/spelling/