USEFUL/HEART/IRREGULAR WORDS
Lifelong Literacy 4-Step Process Kits
Lifelong Literacy’s 4-Step Process Kits are downloadable resources for teachers, tutors and parents wanting to explore how words work. Kits include Colours, Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Function Words and Numbers. Each includes prepared word investigation sheets and a teacher’s manual explaining how to use them. They are best suited to those who have read Lyn Stone’s books, attended one of her courses, or already have a good understanding of morphology and etymology.
Link to purchase the kits with the exchange rate as if 19/9/26 they are around $30 NZD
Liz Kane Literacy – How to Explicitly Teach Heart Words
Heart Words are words with an irregular spelling pattern or high frequency words with a spelling pattern that hasn’t yet been taught. When teaching Heart Words, focus on the phoneme grapheme relationships in the same way as when teaching a regular spelling pattern. However, as there will be an irregular or unexpected phoneme grapheme relationship in these words, highlight this when explicitly teaching them.
Irregular Words Learning Matters List
Approach to the reading and spelling of irregularly spelled words, in accordance with the syllable types of English, the spelling rules within them and New Zealand pronunciation.
These lists contain words with irregular sounds taken from the ‘Fry’ list, which was developed by Dr Edward Fry.
Download Learning Matters list here