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At the end of a word, the j sound is spelt –dge when it comes straight after a short vowel sound. The words in the spelling list all contain a short vowel.

Spelling homework can feel like a bit of a chore so we are on a mission to make it more fun in our house. I've asked my children to pick some themes so I can set up a few after-school activities for them to do. This post shows what we did for Dinosaur Week. I've added the printable downloads if you want to give it a try.

My children's school send home a look, cover, write, check sheet for spellings. One of my children will happily fill it in, whereas the other one avoids it! We started to play some spelling games instead and made a note on the sheet to say that we had been working on them at home. Here are 10 things you can use instead of a worksheet and a pencil! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links, which are labelled as aff links. Clicking the Amazon links doesn't cost you any extra,

Segmenting is the opposite of blending and is the technique used to help with spelling. When blending to read words, you push sounds together to make the word, but pull them apart with segmenting. You can help your child to segment words by saying the whole word first and then breaking it into individual sounds. For each sound they hear, ask your child to write a letter to represent the sound. Some sounds are made using 2 letters (digraph) or 3 letters (trigraphs). When segme