Silent Letter Words

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and illustrate the meanings and spellings of some different words with silent letters when using them in a range of topics and scenarios. The class can match words with the same silent letters to use when composing sentences.

Spelling Rap
Practise designing and performing rap poems to remember the spellings and meanings of some of different words with a range of silent letters

Sport Banners
Explore how to design and make banners containing words with silent letters that can be used to support teams playing in different sports and games
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team