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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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3 Word Lists for October
For October’s, spelling pattern word list, we looked at words ending in 'itor'. Practise this weak vowel ending here.
Since Halloween is this month, we also chose two spooky spelling lists. Learn how to spell words for scary creatures here and how to spell body horror words here. Find more spooky spelling lists here.
Word for Wednesday: Halloween
To continue our celebration of spooky season, we also chose Halloween for October’s Word for Wednesday theme. Follow the links to learn more about the words: pumpkin, monster, skeleton, and trick-or-treat.
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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 the last few weeks, we’ve looked at the words pumpkin, monster, and skeleton. For our final Halloween-themed post of the month, we’ve chosen trick-or-treat.
Trick-or-treating is a Halloween tradition in which costumed children visit ne...
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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’.
So far we’ve looked at the words pumpkin and monster. Today’s word is skeleton.
A skeleton is the hard structure of bones and cartilages that provides a frame for the body. Animated skeletons have been used to personify death since the Middle Ag...
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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’.
Last week, we looked at the word pumpkin. Today’s word is monster.
A monster is a frightening imaginary creature that is usually depicted with various animal and human parts. The word is also used to describe a cruel or evil person.
Monster c...
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Did you know there are over a million word lists on Spellzone? Every word list can be used in a variety of online and offline activities – learn more about them here.
Here are 3 Word Lists for October:
Words ending in 'itor'
In this month’s spelling pattern word list, you can practise words ending in 'itor'.
After the letters 'it', many words use 'or' to spell the weak vowel ending.
Learn about 'itor' word endings in Unit 25 and practise spelling them in this word list.
Witches, Ghosts, and Monsters
October means Halloween and Halloween wouldn’t be Halloween without a...
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It’s time for our last Word for Wednesday post in October!
This month’s blog posts have been themed around all things spooky and scary. So far, we’ve looked at the origins of the words ghost, werewolf, and vampire. Today’s word is technically the name of a character from a book.
Frankenstein was written in 1818 by English author Mary Shelley. The story is about a scientist called Victor Frankenstein who, in an unusual experiment, creates a monstrous living creature out of old body parts.
Here is how the creature is described in the book:
“His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautifu...
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Have you had a chance to play our new Spooky Spelling game? If not – make sure you have a go. The game is here for the spooky season only. In Spooky Spelling, you have to catch creepy spiders in order to spell words.
Spelling games are great way to warm up at the start of a lesson, or to take a break with when you’re beginning to lose focus. They can be used with any of our thousands of spelling lists, or you can create your own spelling list of words you would like to practise. Once you have the words you want to learn, simply click on the football icon above the list and choose the game you want play,
What’s better than a spooky s...
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From sandwiches to wellington boots to the Nobel Prize, many words take their names from people or fictional characters, and these people and characters are known as eponyms. Today, to celebrate Halloween, we’re looking at three scary stories that have influenced the English language.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus in 1818 when she was just twenty years old. In the story, Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who has discovered a secret technique for creating life, tries to build a man. His creation ends up more like a monster and turns against him.
According to the Oxford English dictionary, it was the writer Charles Lamb who ...
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