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Spelling

Sky larks: Full flight

Multi-player spelling contest using a bumper-sized word bank.

Sky larks: Statutory soar

Multi-player spelling contest using Statutory Spellings lists.

Fridge feast

Put the right grapheme in the word.

Dog's spelling splash

Spell words containing new graphemes.

Cat's spelling splosh

Spell words containing alternative phonemes.

Advanced common word messy spelling

Spell high-frequency words that use advanced grapheme-phoneme correspondences.

Caption contraption

Type out the crazy caption.

Schwa magnets demo

An introduction to the unstressed vowel sound and its various spellings.

Schwa magnets

Put the unstressed vowel graphemes back into the words.

Plural forms - words ending -y

Sort the words into whether you change the 'y' to 'ies' or not when you pluralise them.

Plural forms - words ending -f or -fe

Sort the words into whether you change the 'f' to a 'v' or not when you pluralise them.

Plural forms - words ending -o

Sort the words ending in 'o' into whether you add an 's', 'es' or either when you pluralise them.

Apostrophes - Demo 1

Using apostrophes in contractions.

Alphabetical order

Ordering - Alphabetical animals

Put the words in alphabetical order.

Ordering - Alphabetical countries

Put the countries in alphabetical order.

Ordering - Alphabetical fruits

Put the words in alphabetical order.

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