Level K
K01 Additional ‘al’ as /ar/ Introduce ‘v’ for ‘f’ to form plurals
calf half palm calm calves halves
K02 Introduce ‘o’ as /oo/
do to into who today tonight tomorrow
K03 Introduce ‘ea’ as /e/
dead head lead read meant heavy bread thread spread instead
K04 Introduce ‘ur’
fur turn hurt surf burst church Thursday burn curl
K05 Introduce 'ə' at start
awake alone away about alive asleep across alarm around again
afraid along
K06 Introduce silent letters
knew know knife knee knock wrote write two whole wrong
K07 Additional silent letters
castle listen hour ghost lamb climb thumb numb comb crumb
K08 Additional ‘air’ , ‘oal’ Introduce ‘ou’ as /oo/
chair stairs lair goal foal coal shoal through you soup
K09 Introduce ‘ou’ as /or/ and ‘ear’
bought brought thought fought four your bear wear pear tear
K10 Introduce /e/ and /i/ short vowel combinations
(e) any many anything anyone said friend
(i) pretty busy built build
K11 Introduce ‘a’ as /o/
watch what want wattle was wash wasp wand wallet waltz
K12 Introduce ‘o’ as /u/
Monday nothing son mother other money honey some come
done none
K13 Introduce ‘g’ as /j/ and extend to ‘dge’
age cage page stage large edge hedge ledge badge ridge
K14 Adding suffixes
threaded spreads churches watches knives calves hurting building
climbing coming
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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K01
DAY 1
K02
DAY 1
K03
DAY 1
K04
DAY 1
calf
do
dead
fur
half
to
head
turn
palm
into
lead
hurt
calm
who
read
surf
calves
today
meant
burst
halves
tonight
heavy
church
tomorrow
bread
Thursday
thread
burn
spread
curl
instead
* Change the ‘f’ to ‘v’ and
* Today, tonight and tomorrow
add ‘es’ when making a plural are compound words.
of a word ending in ‘f’.
* Change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ when
adding ‘er’ and ‘est’ to form
comparatives or superl;atives of
words ending in ‘consonant / y’.
* Add ‘es’ to form a plural of
a word ending in ‘ch’, where
this forms another syllable.
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K05
DAY 1
K06
DAY 1
K07
DAY 1
K08
DAY 1
awake
knew
castle
chair
alone
know
listen
stairs
away
knife
hour
lair
about
knee
ghost
goal
alive
knock
lamb
foal
asleep
wrote
climb
coal
across
write
thumb
shoal
alarm
two
numb
through
around
whole
comb
you
again
wrong
crumb
soup
afraid
along
* The ‘a’ in these words is
often sounded as the “schwa”
or grunt sound.
* Change the ‘f’ to ‘v’ and add ‘es’
when making a plural of a word
ending in ‘f’.
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K09
DAY 1
K10
DAY 1
K11
DAY 1
bought
any
watch
brought
many
what
thought
anything
want
fought
anyone
wattle
four
said
was
your
friend
wash
bear
pretty
wasp
wear
busy
wand
pear
built
wallet
tear
build
waltz
* Note the difference between “brought”
and “bought”.
bring, brings, bringing, brought
buy, buys, buying, bought
* Change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ when adding ‘er’ or * The short /o/ sound after a ‘w’, ‘wh’ or
‘est’ to form comparatives or superlatives ‘qu’ is represented by the letter ‘a’.
of a word ending in ‘consonant / y’.
Exceptions: wombat, woggle, wok, wonky,
quokka
* Add ‘es’ to form an extnsion of a word
ending in ‘ch’ where another syllable is
formed.
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K12
DAY 1
K13
DAY 1
K14
DAY 1
Monday
age
threaded
nothing
cage
spreads
son
page
churches
mother
stage
watches
other
large
knives
money
edge
calves
honey
hedge
hurting
some
ledge
building
come
badge
climbing
done
ridge
coming
none
* Some, come, done, none are exceptions
to the rule of ‘e’ on the end of a word
makes the previous vowel long.
* The letter ‘g’ takes the /j/ sound when * Always refer to the base word plus
followed by ‘e’, ‘i’ or ‘y’.
extension. Review all rules / conventions for
* The double consonant ‘dg’ keeps the adding these suffixes.
previous vowel short.
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