Searchlights for Spelling Year 3 Pupil's Book

Searchlights for Spelling Year 3 Pupil Book provides a swift and lively way to teach NLS spelling objectives and model successful spelling strategies. Activities are clearly differentiated at three levels, with investigative work and extra challenges. Additional revision units are included, as well as useful subject word lists and helpful hints and strategies.

Contents

Unit 1; Creating rhyming strings, Finding common endings; Creating word chains; Unit 2; Sorting words into different categories depending on spelling; Unit 3; Sorting words into family groups and patterns; Unit 4; Adding prefixes to change meanings; Sorting words by prefix; Defining sub and under; Unit 5; Creating opposites; Separating prefixes from their roots; Unit 6; Word creation; Cloze procedure; Unit 7; Finding and sorting or and er plus those that rhyme; Unit 8; Writing boastful replies; Writing sentences that make a comparison; Creating a poem; Unit 9; Sorting plurals, changing plurals to singular and vice versa; Inventing a number rhyme; Unit 10; Making compound words; Breaking up compounds and writing sentences; Matching contractions and their full forms; Unit 11; Listing and sorting words with silent letters; Inserting missing silent letters; Changing full forms into contractions; Unit 12; Adding suffixes; Editing a passage; Continuing a poem; Unit 13; Spelling words with letter patterns oy, oi, ai, ay; Alternative apelling of the 'long' vowel phoneme 'ai'; Unit 14; Matching, spelling and creating rhyming words; Unit 15; Looking for words within words; Identifying and defining homonyms; Unit 16; Adding/supplying prefixes; Answering riddles; Unit 17; Combining prefixes and root words; Creating opposites; Unit 18; Rewriting contractions in full; Sorting by the part contracted; Unit Ad1; Joining syllables to create words; working out the number of syllables in dinosaur names; Identifying the correct word; Unit Ad2; Creating word spiders for prefixes/suffixes; Discriminating between confusables by spelling; Unit Ad3; Building words.