New 'igh' spellings, including 'ie', 'y' and 'i'
I can know three new spellings for the 'igh' phoneme: 'ie', 'y' and 'i'.
New 'igh' spellings, including 'ie', 'y' and 'i'
I can know three new spellings for the 'igh' phoneme: 'ie', 'y' and 'i'.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- ‘y’ is the most common representation of the 'igh' phoneme when it appears at the end of a word.
- ‘i’ is a representation of the 'igh' phoneme found in the high frequency words: find, kind, mind, wild and behind.
- ‘ie’ is a representation of the 'igh' phoneme found in the middle and end of words.
- How to spell the common exception words: what, when and eye.
Keywords
Common - a spelling pattern that is most often found in written language
Rare - a spelling pattern that is found less often than common ones
Homophone - words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
Past tense - past tense refers to a verb form that indicates an action or state that has already happened or was completed in the past, such as 'cried'
Common misconception
Pupils will look for any word with ‘i’ in it e.g. carried. ‘I’ can be pronounced in different ways.
Always tell children to read the word with the most common phoneme for the grapheme and check if it makes sense.
Licence
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Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
in the middle or at the end
'last but one'
has a letter that comes between the two letters in a digraph
a three letter phoneme making one sound
words that sound the same but have different meanings
Exit quiz
6 Questions
in the middle or at the end
at the beginning or in the middle
often at the end of a word