Teaching spelling generalisations: Floss slide outlines

1. Teaching spelling generalisations: ‘Floss’ rule – ff ll ss zz

Extract from a Literacy Hub professional learning webinar.

2. Literacy Hub phonics progression

[Image: Screenshot of Phase 7 of the Literacy Hub phonics progression: Phonic knowledge and word recognition level 4. The table shows three columns within the phase, with a heading ‘Floss rule’ across the three columns. The first column is labelled Letter–sound correspondences and the rows beneath the heading show ff, ll, ss and zz. The second column is labelled Letter-sound skills, and the text reads: Start reading and spelling CVCC and CCVC words using new and known letter-sound correspondences. Phase 7 example words: fluff, gruff, smell, chill, cross, press, buzz, frizz, jazz. The third column is labelled Irregular words, and the words listed are: where, there, here, saw.]

3. Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisation for ff, ll, ss, zz

[Image: Screenshot shows 23 slides from the slide deck for the phonics lesson teaching the spelling generalisation for ff, ll, ss and zz (the ‘floss’ rule). The progression of slides uses the ‘I do, We do, You do’ phases of instruction, and guides students to build knowledge through working with individual words through to sentence work. The lesson also covers the irregular word: where. Five of the slides have a red star indicating the webinar presenters will elaborate further on these slides.]

4. Floss

[Image: Slide 1 of the ‘floss’ rule slide deck. Text reads: I do … Floss ff ll ss zz.]

5. Floss

[Image: Slide 2 of the ‘floss’ rule slide deck. Text reads: We do … Floss ff ll ss zz.]

6. Floss

[Image: Slide 6 of the ‘floss’ rule slide deck: Text reads: We do … fuzz; doll; smell.]

7. Floss

[Image: Slide 12 of the ‘floss’ rule slide deck: We do … infographic of a ‘buzzy’ bee, indicating the word to be practised by students is ‘buzz’. This is followed by two further infographics representing ‘hiss’ (a snake hissing) and ‘spill’ (a glass of water tipped over).]