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October 2023 Round-up

Have you tried out our October spelling lists? This month, we explored how to spell l sound after the letter m, shared 10 alternatives for the word talk, and prepared for Halloween with these scary words. We also brought back our seasonal game Spooky Spelling – are you brave enough to play?
Is it a which or a witch? What do the words evil, scream, banshee, zombie, and spooky have in common? Why does Frankenstein need a capital letter? We celebrated spooky season by sharing 10 writing tips for Halloween.
When you are writing, it is important to choose the words you use to begin a sentence carefully. You can use different sentence starters to demonstrate the relationship between sentences or parts of a sentence. This month we shared 20 sentence starters to help you introduce, expand, and illustrate ideas and 15 sentence starters to demonstrate cause and effect in writing.

30 Oct 2023
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