Spelling Scheme - Year 1

Overview

Most schools will have a carefully chosen phonics scheme in place. 

We provide the below resources to supplement these schemes and to ensure comprehensive coverage of the appendix to the national curriculum. 

Rather than prescribing a week-by-week spelling scheme in Year 1, the contents of the appendix to the national curriculum for year 1 students has been broken down into 41 lists. These lists should complement all phonics schemes of works and allow teachers to use in any order appropriate to their phonics scheme of work. We do provide spelling assessments corresponding to Lists 1-14, Lists 15-28 and Lists 29-41 for completeness.

We are presently in the process of adding further lists of words following requests by teachers.  

List 1
The sounds /f/ & /s/ spelt ff & ss.

1. off 
2. bluff
3. scuff
4. sniff
5. toffee
6. staff
7. coffee
8. miss
9. access
10. across
11. assess
12. glass
13. mess

Emile codes for students:
Learn: SY1L1L 
Practise: SY1L1P
Snake: SY1L1S
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Anagram: SY1L1A
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The download includes: powerpoint, word list, look cover write out & word search. 

List 2
The sounds /l/, /z/ and /k/ spelt ll, zz and ck.

1. well
2. bell
3. fell
4. sell
5. buzz
6. fizz
7. whizz
8. back
9. black 
10. kick
11. neck
12. sick

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Learn: SY1L2L
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List 3
Ph and wh spelling.

1. dolphin
2. alphabet
3. phonics
4. elephant
5. phone
6. when 
7. where
8. which
9. wheel
10. while

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List 4
The /k/ sound spelt k (kit).

1. Kent
2. sketch
3. kit
4. skin
5. frisky
6. risky 
7. skill
8. kettle
9. king
10. kept

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Learn: SY1L4L 
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List 5
The /nk/ sound spelt nk (bank).

1. bank 
2. think
3. honk
4. sunk
5. tank
6. drink
7. ink
8. pink
9. blink
10. thank

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List 6
The /v/ sound at the end of words (have).

1. have
2. live
3. give
4. move 
5. drive
6. brave
7. dive
8. save
9. love
10. wave

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List 7
The digraph ar.

1. car
2. start 
3. park
4. arm
5. garden
6. far
7. bar
8. hard
9. party
10. star

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List 8
The digraph ir.

1. girl
2. bird
3. shirt
4. first 
5. third
6. thirteen
7. stir
8. thirsty
9. birthday
10. circle

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List 9
The digraph ur.

1. turn
2. hurt 
3. church
4. burst
5. Thursday
6. burn
7. burger
8. fur
9. surf
10. burp

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List 10
The digraph or.

1. for
2. short
3. born
4. horse 
5. morning
6. fork
7. torch
8. form
9. storm
10. sport

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List 11
The digraph ou.

1. out
2. about 
3. mouth
4. around
5. sound
6. found
7. pound
8. count
9. ground
10. south

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List 12
The trigraph igh.

1. high
2. night 
3. light
4. bright
5. right
6. sigh
7. fight
8. might
9. sight
10. delight

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List 13
The digraph aw.

1. saw
2. draw
3. yawn 
4. crawl
5. drawn
6. lawn
7. straw
8. claw
9. paw
10. dawn

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List 14
The digraph au.

1. author
2. August
3. dinosaur 
4. astronaut
5. pause
6. vault
7. fault
8. sauce
9. haunt
10. launch

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List 15
The digraphs ai and oi.

1. rain
2. wait
3. train
4. paid
5. afraid 
6. oil
7. join
8. coin
9. point
10. soil

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List 16
The digraphs ay and oy.

1. day
2. play
3. say
4. way 
5. stay
6. boy
7. toy
8. enjoy
9. annoy
10. royal

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List 17
The trigraph ore.

1. ore
2. more
3. score
4. before 
5. wore
6. shore
7. core
8. chore
9. store
10. sore

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List 18
The trigraphs air and ear.

1. air
2. fair 
3. pair
4. hair
5. chair
6. dear
7. hear
8. beard
9. near
10. year

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List 19
The trigraphs ear and are.

1. bear
2. pear
3. wear
4. tear
5. bare 
6. dare
7. care
8. share
9. scared

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List 20
The digraph er.

1. her
2. term
3. verb
4. person 
5. better
6. under
7. summer
8. winter
9. sister
10. farmer

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List 21
The sound /ee/ spelt ee.

1. see
2. tree
3. green
4. meet 
5. week
6. street
7. deep
8. need
9. seen
10. feet

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List 22
The digraph ea both sounds.

1. sea
2. dream
3. meat 
4. each
5. read
6. head
7. read
8. meant
9. instead

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List 23
The digraph ie both sounds.

1. lie
2. tie
3. pie
4. cried
5. tried 
6. dried
7. chief
8. field
9. thief
10. shield

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List 24
The digraph oo both sounds.

1. food
2. pool 
3. moon
4. zoo
5. soon
6. book
7. took
8. foot
9. wood
10. good

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List 25
The digraph ow like snow.

1. blow
2. snow
3. grow
4. show
5. throw 
6. own
7. below
8. arrow
9. follow
10. shadow

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List 26
The split digraph
a-e.

1. made
2. came
3. same
4. take 
5. safe
6. amaze
7. blaze
8. shade
9. chase
10. shape

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List 27
The split digraph
e-e.

1. these
2. theme
3. complete 
4. extreme
5. delete
6. Pete
7. evening
8. compete
9. athlete
10. eve

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List 28
The split digraph i-e.

1. five
2. ride 
3. like
4. time
5. side
6. bike
7. hide
8. prize
9. invite
10. slide

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List 29
The split digraph o-e.

1. home
2. those
3. woke
4. hope
5. hole 
6. alone
7. pole
8. phone
9. bone
10. whole

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List 30
The split digraph u-e both sounds.

1. June
2. rule
3. rude
4. use 
5. tube
6. tune
7. flute
8. include
9. exclude
10. Luke

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List 31
The sound /oa/ spelt oa, ow & oe.

1. boat
2. coat
3. road
4. coach 
5. goal
6. toe
7. goes
8. own
9. blow
10. snow
11. grow
12. show

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List 32
The digraphs ue and the ew.

1. blue
2. clue
3. true
4. rescue 
5. Tuesday
6. new
7. few
8. grew
9. flew
10. drew
11. threw

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List 33
Division of words into syllables.

1. pocket
2. rabbit
3. carrot 
4. thunder
5. sunset
6. below
7. phonics
8. complete
9. before
10. happy

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List 34
Adding the prefix un-.​

1. unhappy
2. undo
3. unload
4. unfair 
5. unlock
6. unlucky
7. unwell
8. unusual
9. unzip
10. unclear

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List 35
Words ending –y.

1. very
2. happy 
3. funny
4. party
5. family
6. silly
7. smelly
8. baby
9. sunny
10. cherry

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List 36
Words ending in -tch.

1. catch
2. fetch 
3. kitchen
4. notch
5. hutch
6. itch
7. match
8. stretch
9. witch
10. stitch

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List 37
Adding -s and -es to nouns.

1. cats
2. dogs
3. rocks
4. boys 
5. girls
6. teachers
7. schools
8. dresses
9. busses
10. glasses

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List 38
Adding -s and -es to verbs.

1. spends
2. thanks
3. plays 
4. fights
5. works
6. catches
7. watches
8. sketches
9. itches
10. fetches

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List 39
Adding the endings -ing, –ed and –er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word.

1. hunting
2. hunted
3. hunter
4. buzzing 
5. buzzed
6. buzzer
7. jumping
8. jumped
9. jumper

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List 40
Adding –er and –est to adjectives where no change is needed to the root word.

1. grander
2. grandest
3. fresher
4. freshest 
5. quicker
6. quickest
7. smarter
8. tallest
9. harder
11. hardest

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List 41
Compound words 1.

1. football
2. playground
3. farmyard 
4. bedroom
5. blackberry
6. rainbow
7. starfish
8. worthwhile
9. pineapple
10. earthquake

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List 42
The digraph sh.

1. ship
2. shop
3. fish
4. cash
5. rush
6. dish 
7. shell
8. finish
9. brush
10. shed

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List 43
The digraph th.

1. thin
2. with
3. thick
4. path 
5. bath
6. think
7. thrill
8. moth
9. thug
10. thud

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List 44
The digraph ng.

1. ring
2. rang 
3. hang
4. song
5. wing
6. lungs
7. king
8. long
9. sing
10. sang

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List 45
The digraph qu.

1. quiz
2. quit
3. quick
4. quack
5. liquid 
6. queen
7. quest
8. quick
9. quiet
10. quite

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List 46
The digraph ch.

1. chop
2. chin 
3. chain
4. cheek
5. chair
6. cheese
7. chase
8. chicken
9. each
10. rich

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List 47
The trigraph dge.

1. judge 
2. badge
3. edge
4. bridge
5. dodge
6. fudge

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List 48
The trigraph ure.

1. sure
2. pure
3. cure
4. secure
5. mature
6. treasure 
7. measure
8. picture
9. nature
10. future

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List 49
Words ending tion.

1. station
2. fiction
3. position 
4. question
5. competition
6. attention
7. education
8. action
9. completion
10. explanation

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List 50
The sound /ee/ spelt e.

1. be
2. he 
3. me
4. she
5. we
6. before
7. begin
8. below
9. equal
10. even
11. redo
12. because

Emile codes for Premium Resources:
Learn: SY1L50L
Practise: SY1L50P
Snake: SY1L50S
Frog: SY1L50F
Anagram: SY1L50A 
Sailing: SY1L50Sa
Feast: SY1L50Fe

List 51
The sound /z/ spelt se.

1. bruise
2. cause
3. cheese
4. ease
5. noise
6. pause
7. please 
8. praise
9. disease
10. raise

Emile codes for Premium Resources:
Learn: SY1L51L
Practise: SY1L51P
Snake: SY1L51S
Frog: SY1L51F 
Anagram: SY1L51A
Sailing: SY1L51Sa
Feast: SY1L51Fe

List 52
The /l/ sound spelt le at the end of words

1. table
2. apple 
3. bottle
4. little
5. middle
6. giggle
7. rubble
8. multiple
9. riddle
10. able

Emile codes for Premium Resources:
Learn: SY1L52L
Practise: SY1L52P 
Snake: SY1L52S
Frog: SY1L52F
Anagram: SY1L52A
Sailing: SY1L52Sa
Feast: SY1L52Fe

List 53
The sound /s/ spelt ce at the end of words.

1. once
2. bounce 
3. fence
4. chance
5. Greece
6. pence
7. dance
8. piece
9. since
10. science

Emile codes for Premium Resources:
1. once
2. bounce
3. fence
4. chance
5. Greece 
6. pence
7. dance
8. piece
9. since
10. science

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