spell by:

Statutory requirement

Pupils should be taught to spell by:

• segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
• learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which 1 or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones
• learning to spell common exception words
• learning to spell more words with contracted forms
• learning the possessive apostrophe (singular)Non-statutory example: for example, the girl’s book
• distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones

Source: Department for Education, English programmes of study. See also the relevant statutory appendix. Crown copyright information reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0.