Ewes in the Queue

Learn to spell naturally with stories! This engaging phonics story brings spelling to life and is full of Long U sound words, providing authentic context to make sense of phonics. Read about the unusual menu at Chef Matthew's cafe, and enjoy learning 10 ways to spell the Long U sound at the same time!

The story includes 37 Long U words plus spelling and story based learning activities, word list and spelling groups, tricky words, reading comprehension, homophones, homonyms and homographs and a grapheme chart. The Long U sound letters are printed in green making it easy to 'sound out' words.

Clever Speller's unique story based learning approach to spelling helps students aged 4-10 to develop phonemic awareness, learn all the ways to spell sounds in words and improve grammar.
Easily Learn to Spell with Clever Speller Phonics Stories
Stage 1: Develop Phonemic Awareness, the ability to hear sounds in words. Listening to phonics stories full of words with a focus sound makes developing this skill easy and natural.
Stage 2: Learn all the Ways to Spell Sounds in Words with phonics stories full of words showing the different ways to spell a focus sound.
Stage 3: Perfecting Grammar, story based activities make learning to clearly communicate meaningful and connected
Clever Speller Phonics Stories Make Phonics EasyRead the phonics story 'Ewes in the Queue' and listen for words with a Long U sound
Break words into sounds, eg n-ew. This is often called 'sounding out'
Spell the Long U sound words by saying each individual sound of the word and then the whole word, eg n-ew, new
Learn all the ways to spell the Long U sound in words

Helping Students to Enjoy Learning to Spell
For students with Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties:spelling is confusing and doesn't make sense
words seem to run together
reading is hard work and not fun
This is because of difficulties with:hearing sounds in words
learning letter sound associations
blending sounds together
identifying beginning, middle and end sounds in words
learning tricky sight words
reading fluency
retrieving words from vocabulary
How Clever Speller helps:phonics stories are full of words with a focus sound
all the ways to spell the focus sound are in one place
stories provide the context for phonics to make sense
easy to follow word family patterns
focus sound words are grouped in lists from simple to complex
tricky sight words are grouped into a focus sound
rhyming stories help with predicting and memory
recalling spelling is much easier from a story than from a spelling list