Level N
N01 Additional ‘oo’ : ‘ai’
rooster smooth kangaroo
mermaid main jail
choose
N02 Additional ‘ea’
steam steal meal team reason
eagle Easter least
seal
fail faint sprain
season
cheap
N03 Additional ‘oa’ : ‘ow’ : ‘ew’
goat soak poach power powder howl drew jewel screw blew
N04 Additional ‘ow’
swallow pillow hollow follow burrow borrow
yellow crow shadow grown
N05 Additional ‘aw’ : ‘are’
brawl awful dawn jaw
N06 Additional ‘ar’ : ‘ou’ : ‘all’
quarter dwarf warn
small squall stall
N07 Additional ‘a-e’
case shade
shape
fare
spare
square snare
couch
proud
flour trousers
skate
plane
N08 Additional ‘o-e’ : ‘i-e’ ; ‘u-e’
throne stroke note strike
umpire
sale
whale
quite
plate
chime
N09 Additional ‘g’ as /j/ (Review silent ‘d’ to hold short vowel)
ginger charge magic change orange strange
judge bridge porridge
N10 Introduce ‘er’ and ‘or’ to form nouns
jumper camper farmer reader bowler
cleaner learner fisherman sailor
N11 Additional silent 'e' on end
axe shone scone promise
N12 Additional ‘y’ as /ee/
plenty very empty
ferry
loose
cherry
bride
waste
huge
pure
message
painter
serve
lolly
base
geese
pantry
sneeze
body
navy
army
N13 Adding suffixes
poaches followed skated umpiring changing faintly
proudly bodies lollies borrower
Some appropriate rules have been listed at the end of each strip list.
For more details please refer to SMART WORDS: SIGNPOSTS TO CORRECT SPELLING
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N01
DAY 1
N02
DAY 1
N03
DAY 1
N04
DAY 1
rooster
steam
goat
swallow
smooth
steal
soak
pillow
kangaroo
meal
poach
hollow
choose
team
power
follow
fail
reason
powder
burrow
faint
season
howl
borrow
sprain
cheap
drew
yellow
mermaid
eagle
jewel
crow
main
Easter
screw
shadow
jail
least
blew
grown
* ‘oa’ only appears in the middle of
words. ‘ew’ usually appears at the ends
of words. Exceptions: jewel, news.
* Add ‘es’ when forming extensions of a
word that ends in ‘ch’ where another
syllable is formed.
* ‘ow’ appears at the ends of
words.
* The double consonant is
required to hold the previous
vowel short. Exception: shadow /
from shade.
seal
* ‘ai’ never appears at the end
of a word.
* ‘oo’ generally appears in the
middle of words. Exceptions:
too, kangaroo.
* When two vowels appear
together they frequently
take the name of the first
vowel.
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N05
DAY 1
N06
DAY 1
N07
DAY 1
brawl
quarter
case
awful
dwarf
shade
dawn
warn
shape
jaw
couch
skate
fare
proud
plane
spare
flour
sale
square
trousers
whale
snare
small
plate
squall
base
stall
waste
* Drop the 'e' when adding 'ing' to words
that end in 'e'.
* Use ‘all’ at the ends of words. Drop one
‘l’ for the starts. (already)
* Add ‘es’ to form extensions or words
ending in ‘ch’ where another syllable is
formed.
* ‘e’ on the end of a word makes the
previous vowel long. Exceptions: love,
glove, above, dove, none, some, come,
give, live
* Drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’.
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N08
DAY 1
N09
DAY 1
N10
DAY 1
throne
ginger
jumper
stroke
charge
camper
note
magic
farmer
strike
change
reader
umpire
orange
bowler
quite
strange
painter
chime
message
cleaner
bride
judge
learner
huge
bridge
fisherman
pure
porridge
sailor
* ‘e’ on the end of a word makes the
previous vowel long. Exceptions: love,
glove, above, dove, none, some, come,
give, live
* Drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’.
* ‘g’ generally takes the /j/ sound before ‘i’,
‘e’, ‘y’. Exceptions: get, gift, giggle, girl,
give.
* A double consonant keeps the short vowel.
porridge, judge
* The suffixes ‘er’ and ‘or’ change the
verb to a noun.
* Use ‘er’ generally. ‘or’ is most
common after ‘t’ or ‘ct’.
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N11
DAY 1
N12
DAY 1
N13
DAY 1
axe
plenty
poaches
shone
very
followed
scone
empty
skated
promise
ferry
umpiring
loose
cherry
changing
serve
lolly
faintly
geese
pantry
proudly
sneeze
body
bodies
navy
lollies
army
borrower
* These words are exceptions to the rule
which dictates that the ‘e’ on the end of a
word makes the previous vowel long.
* Remove the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’ to
words that end in ‘e’.
* Change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ when forming
extensions of words ending in
‘consonant / y’. plenty plentiful, angry
angrier, empty emptied, tiny tiniest,
cherry cherries
* Always refer to the base word plus
extension and the rules that govern their
addition to the base word.
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