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10 Frightful Mistakes to Avoid this Halloween

Are you ready for Halloween?  Make sure you don't  make these 10 mistakes this spooky season:   Don’t muddle up the words witch and which! Our spelling game Which Witch is great for practice!   Heard a scary sound? It’s a probably a creak, not a creek!    As Frankenstein is a name, it needs capital letters. Make sure you don’t confuse forget the apostrophe if you’re writing about Frankenstein’s monster.   Don’t get caught out by silent letters – watch out for the sneaky ‘h’ in the words ghost and ghoul .   Describing somethin...

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October 2022 Round-up

This month's English vocabulary lists were ‘ble’ as a suffix, Key Stage 3: Science, and 10 Words for … SURPISED. Have you tried our new Monkey Business game?   We added two new blog posts to our Commonly Confused Words series. Do you know the difference between creak and creek? What about which and witch?   Our Word for Wednesday theme for October was Halloween. The word Halloween likely dates to the seventeenth century but was popularised in the Burns poem ‘Halloween’ which was written in 1785. It is a Scottish abbreviation of ‘Allhallow-even’ which means ‘Ev...

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Word for Wednesday: Ghoul

Our Word for Wednesday theme for October is Halloween. The word Halloween likely dates to the seventeenth century but was popularised in the Burns poem ‘Halloween’ which was written in 1785. It is a Scottish abbreviation of ‘Allhallow-even’ which means ‘Eve of the All Saints’.  ‘Hallow’ means ‘holy person’ or ‘saint’.  Over October, we’ve looked at the words witch, banshee, and zombie. Our final word for the month is ghoul. A figure of Arabic folklore, the ghoul is a demonic being or evil spirit that robs graves and feasts on human flesh. In some stories, ghouls...

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