NAPLAN Test Preparation: Spelling – Years 3 and 5

Direct Instruction

Teaching resources

Teaching Guide
Board Displays
Student Workbook 
Overview
The NAPLAN Spelling program is a program for Year 3 and Year 5 students. It aligns to the Australian Curriculum English Strand:
  • Recognise and know how to write most high frequency words including some homophones (ACELA1486).
  • Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words (ACELA1485).
  • Know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word (ACELA1827).
  • Understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns (ACELA1826).
  • Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations (ACELA1829).
  • Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words (ACELA1513).
  • Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word (ACELA1514).
Learning Objectives
In In Lessons 1 to 15, students learn about:
  • homonyms – right, write, ate, eight, blue, blew, knew, new, flour, flower, whole, hole
  • morphographic rules
  • identify which oi/oy sound letters to use to spell a word
  • dropping the final e
  • identify which ou/ow sound letters to use to spell a word
  • doubling the final letter when adding a new morphograph.
Success Criteria
  • Use knowledge of letter-sound relationships including consonant and vowel clusters and high-frequency words to spell words accurately.

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