Wipe Clean Spelling Book

Age 4+

Learn to read, write and spell the 100 most frequently used words in the English language. Some of the words are tricky to spell – the Letterlanders give clues and helpful tips to make learning the correct spellings more fun and memorable.

Once your child knows these words, they will have an excellent foundation in literacy.

Every page can be wiped clean so your child will be improving their pen control and handwriting skills as they write over the pages again and again!

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9 781782 480921 Child-friendly phonics

See our full range at: www.letterland.com Published and imported by Letterland International Ltd, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 9AD, UK. © Letterland International 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78248-092-1 Printed by Leo Paper Products, Guangdong Province, China.

Author: Lisa Holt Designer: Laura Bittles Illustrator: Peter Reddy Colourist: Baz Rowell Sassoon Infant is a typeface designed for children learning to read and write. © Adrian Williams Design Ltd

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How to use this book Take a journey through the Letterland alphabet and encounter the 100 most frequently used words in the English language. These are words that children are expected to know by the end of their first year at school. By using this book to become familiar with reading and writing these words your child will have a really good head start when learning to read.

Each page has a number of words to trace over and the pages are wipe-clean so your child can write over the words with the special pen over and over again. The letter shapes are dotted with arrows showing the correct movement pathways. By helping your child to practice writing words with the correct movements you will be ensuring that when moving on to joined up writing the transition will be smooth and easy.

Some of the words are quite tricky to spell, but by placing the words in playful scenarios with the Letterland characters, these spellings become more memorable.

The words are ordered alphabetically, but not all words start with the Letterland characters sound. For example, Annie Apple says ‘a’ in words like ‘and’, but you will not hear her sound in words like ‘all’. If you are familiar with the Letterland stories you might like to spot other characters in the backgrounds providing clues to the different sounds and spelling patterns. If you would like to find out more about Letterland, take a look at our website www.letterland.com Letterland story clues in the background to help explain different sounds and spelling patterns.

Alphabetically ordered introduction to writing the 100 most frequently used words.

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All blue text are words that are in the 100 most frequently used words list. Nearly all of the book is written using these words!

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Aa-Zz Handwriting Practice Let’s start by tracing all of the letter shapes.

Reading Direction

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100 high-frequency words These are the 100 most commonly used words in the whole English language. All 100 of them are introduced in this book with two opportunities to read and to write each word.

When your child has finished the book, you might like to come back to this page to see how many of the words can be read. Put a tick next to each one or even cross the words out as they are read. Remember everything can be wiped clean so it can be used again and again.

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Annie Apple

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back . But be on the lookout when you see by!

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I’m Mr I. I say my name I!

Mr I, the Ice Cream Man

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If it’s not him in a word it is me.

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The Letterlanders

Annie Apple

Golden Girl

Munching Mike

Talking Tess

Bouncy Ben

Clever Cat

Harry Hat Man

Impy Ink

Noisy Nick

Uppy Umbrella

Mr A

Oscar Orange

Vicky Violet

Mr E

Dippy Duck

Eddy Elephant Firefighter Fred

Jumping Jim

Peter Puppy

Walter Walrus

Mr I

Kicking King

Quarrelsome Queen

Fix-it Max

Mr O

Red Robot

Yellow Yo-yo Man

Lucy Lamp Light

Sammy Snake

Zig Zag Zebra

Mr U

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