Spelling with the Spellits
(from Look and Read)
Company: BBC Television
First run: Autumn 2002 & Spring 2003
Episodes: 8 episodes
Duration: 20 minutes/episode
Subject: English
Audience: Age 7-9
Look and Read is a BBC television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills.
The programme presents fictional stories in a serial format, the first of which was broadcast in 1967 and the most
recent in 2004, making it the longest running nationally broadcast programme for schools in the UK. The series
remains popular among school children, and has also gained a cult following among those who have grown up with it.
A pair of related sets of programmes - it would be pushing it too far to all them 'stories'. These units do what no Look and Read programme has ever done before: they actually teach reading and writing skills and show kids how to spell, using the three Spellit animated characters - Eye Spellit, Ear Spellit and Brain Spellit. These are the most explicitly educational Look and Read units ever, with the teacher's notes justifying this with lots of delicious long words like 'kinaesthetic' and 'metacognitive awareness'. They are fun and interesting, but completely redefine what Look and Read is actually about.
A round-up by the Spellits of major rules which underlie many of the spelling patterns of English. Contains edited highlights of sketches, animation and jingles from earlier programmes combine to create a memorable revision course for older pupils.
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Spelling with the Spellits aka Spelling Rules.
Episodes
Episode listings from BBC schedules.
Programme One
Educational series for 7- to 9-year-olds tackling spelling with animation, songs and comic sketches. This
programme focuses on suffixes, prefixes and plural words ending in Y.
(Year 3, Programme 1)
Programme Two
This programme focuses on comparatives, superlatives, suffixes and apostrophes.
(Year 3, Programme 2)
Programme Three
In this programme, long and short vowels, past-tense endings and suffixes.
(Year 4, Programme 1)
Programme Four This programme focuses on prefixes, suffixes and possessive apostrophes.
(Year 4, Programme 2)
Programme Five
Eyes, Ear and Brain deal with plural words with different endings and hard and soft 'c'.
(Year 5, Programme 1)
Programme Six
Eyes, Ears and Brain deal with homophones, silent 'e' endings and the 'i before e' rule.
(Year 5, Programme 2)
Programme Seven (Revision)
(Year 6, Programme 1)
Programme Eight (Revision)
Eyes, Ears and Brain review prefixes and suffixes, words with a final silent e and the use of apostrophes.
(Year 6, Programme 2)
