Clever Speller

Story Based Learning

Providing the context for phonics to make sense!

Discover the Many Ways Sounds are Spelled with Phonics Stories

Learning to spell shouldn't mean

memorising endless lists of random words!

At Clever Speller, we believe children learn best when spelling is meaningful, engaging, and connected to real reading. That's why we've created specially written phonics stories that focus on a particular speech sound while showcasing the many different ways that sound can be spelled.

Instead of practising isolated words, children discover spelling patterns naturally as they follow enjoyable stories packed with carefully selected examples. They begin to see that the long a sound can be spelled a-e, ai, ay, ea, and even eigh—all within the context of a story that makes sense and captures their imagination.

By combining phonics, spelling, and reading for meaning, Clever Speller helps children become confident readers, accurate spellers, and enthusiastic learners.

Stories provide meaningful context to help children learn how sounds in words are spelled.

As children follow characters and events, they encounter spelling patterns naturally and repeatedly, transforming learning to spell, from what can be a tedious task, into an enjoyable learning experience!

Stories to Teach Spelling

Bring spelling to life!

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Understanding that words are made up of separate sounds that can be blended, segmented, added, deleted, or changed, to make new words.

For example, a child with good phonemic awareness can hear that the word cat is made up of the sounds /c/ /a/ /t/, blend those sounds together to say cat, or change the /c/ to /h/ to make hat.

Phonemic Awareness

Learning to hear, and work with, the sounds in words

Phonics

All the ways to spell sounds in words

Learning to spell in English can be challenging because many sounds can be spelled in several different ways, and many spelling patterns can represent more than one sound.

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Grammar

Language Conventions

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Natural Learning in Context

Our stories bring spelling to life and easily make sense of crazy English spelling. With plenty of open ended, cross curricular activities to provide interest, learning to spell becomes a relaxed and natural process. Ditch boring disconnected lists and make spelling time a happy time!

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