Read Write Inc. Spelling Programme

We have introduced the RWI Spelling programme for children in Years 2-6. It is a structured programme and is the natural progression from RWI Phonics which has been delivered so successfully in Reception and Year 1 over the past three years.

RWI spelling enables us to do the following:

• Meet the spelling expectations of the National Curriculum 2014
• Raise standards in spelling
• Provide consistency and progression in the teaching of spelling
• Support all children to be more confident at spelling. 

How does this programme support your child in learning to spell?

RWInc Spelling is an interactive programme which teaches spellings in a fun and engaging way. Each unit is introduced with a short video. It helps children to learn spellings with common patterns and uses rules in order to help them recall spellings as well as teaching exceptions to these rules.

Individual workbooks allow children to practice their spellings and the teaching naturally follows on from the Spell Review part of the RWInc phonics programme taught as soon as the children enter Reception at Stickland's.  Therefore the children are already proficient at using dots (for individual sounds) and dashes (for digraphs/trigraphs) and prefixes and suffixes can be added to root words to help them to spell with greater accuracy, understanding and confidence.  Log books give children ownership of their spellings and further consolidation at home.

How the Log Books support your child to spell

All children now have log books and these are important in helping them to practise the spellings they need to learn from each unit. Each unit explains the rules and gives handy tips and rhymes for remembering these. During the week the children will log the spellings they found tricky. At the beginning of the next unit they will do speed spell which will assess their ability to spell words with the previous weeks spelling pattern correctly. Again they will log any words that were misspelt from this activity.

Building independence

Giving children weekly spellings to be tested (even when they do score 10/10!) does not mean that they will apply these in their own written work. With this new approach to the teaching of spellings we hope to support and encourage your child to become both more confident and independent spellers which will help them become better writers.  Revisiting spelling patterns and rules regularly is key to them becoming successful spellers.

Remember that the Spelling Programme is there to help them to become better at spelling with positive praise and encouragement and that, like everything, this will take practice.