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Games / resources to support children who need extra help with reading / writing / spelling:

Below are some lists of words your child should be able to read by sight and spell accurately.  If your child does not have a full grasp of these words by the time they should then pointing them out when reading, and using them in spelling games and wordsearches can help them to pick them up more easily.

High Frequency Words that children should know by the end of Year 2:

 http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/hfw/hfw.htm

A leaflet you can print out and record progress in learning to read / spell high frequency words – tick off or highlight as your child learns new words:

http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/keywordsks1.pdf

Medium frequency words your child should know by Years 4 and 5:

http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/keywordsks2.pdf

To help your child with comprehension, you can help them work on Reading Quest activities.  You can base these activities on any reading they are doing and theye earn house points in school for every quest they complete.

We have two different reading quests: