Spelling - Home learning - Sound ff

The Home Learning Pack focusing on the 'ff' sound provides a comprehensive approach for children to practice and enhance their spelling skills. The pack includes differentiated spelling lists featuring words with the 'ff' sound, such as 'tiff', 'staff', 'off', 'sniffing', 'puff', 'bluff', 'cuff', 'stuffed', 'stuff', and 'scoff'. Each list also presents a challenge word, 'affection', for those learners seeking to extend their vocabulary. Blank boxes are available for adding any extra words that may be deemed beneficial for the children to learn.

Following the spelling lists, the pack employs the 'Look, Say, Cover, Write, and Check' method to reinforce learning. This technique encourages children to study the word ('Look'), pronounce it ('Say'), hide the word and recall it ('Cover'), write it down ('Write'), and finally, verify their spelling ('Check'). Any corrections needed are noted in the 'Correction' space. Additionally, the pack includes 'Read and Match' activities where children can connect words to their meanings and are prompted to use one of the words in a sentence of their own creation. To further engage the children, a 'Real and Nonsense words' exercise is provided, where they identify real words to use in sentences and 'pop' the nonsense words by marking them with a cross, helping to distinguish between real vocabulary and made-up terms.