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3 Word Lists for October 2023

It’s time for our spelling lists for October. Did you know that you can adapt any Spellzone word list to suit your lesson plan? The l sound after m This month’s spelling pattern explores how to spell an l sound when it falls after the letter m. Learn more about this sound and whether to use the letters al or el in Word endings: -le, and exceptions e.g. -al, -el, -ol.    Halloween From pranks and pumpkins to spiders and shadows, spooky season upon us! How many of these Halloween words can you spell? Check back later this month for our Spooky Spelling game and in the meantime here are more spooky spelling lists t...

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Word for Wednesday: Trick-or-treat

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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