Spelling - e-e

This comprehensive spelling activity set is designed to help children recognise and spell words with the 'e-e' split digraph sound. The series of slides and printable activities are ideal for classroom use, where yellow slides are projected onto the whiteboard for class instruction and white slides provide printable versions for individual practice if exercise books are not available. Children are encouraged to engage with various words containing the 'e-e' sound, such as 'athlete', 'theme', and 'evening', through a combination of visual aids, sounding out exercises, and reading practice.

The activities are structured to progressively build the children's understanding and ability to work with the 'e-e' sound. They begin with identifying the sound in words, followed by blending and reading exercises. Children then practise adding sound buttons (dots for single sounds and dashes for digraphs) to words, which supports phonetic decoding skills. As the lessons advance, they are tasked with labelling pictures, creating words, and finding hidden words in a grid. The spelling caterpillar game adds a fun, interactive element, where children spell words to build their caterpillar. The set concludes with dictation and self-correction exercises to reinforce learning, and there are even 'alien words' to challenge their phonetic application skills.