Silent Letters Quiz

The KS2Gems Silent Letters Quiz is an engaging and educational activity designed to help Year 5 and Year 6 students improve their spelling, particularly focusing on words with silent letters. This quick quiz, intended to take between 5-10 minutes, requires no additional equipment for the children and serves as an excellent tool to consolidate their understanding of statutory words, spelling rules, and patterns. The quiz is structured to aid long-term retention by revisiting the spellings a while after they have been initially taught, reinforcing the correct spelling of challenging words through repetition and practice.

Each slide of the quiz presents a sentence with a blank space where students must choose the correct spelling of a word that fits the context. The words in the quiz include 'character', 'column', 'solemn', 'debut', 'rhinoceros', 'autumn', 'ballet', 'crumb', 'tomb', and 'whistle', all of which contain silent letters that can often trip up even the most diligent learners. By engaging with this quiz, students are encouraged to think critically about word structure and to recognize patterns in English spelling, thereby improving both their spelling and reading skills.