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| Spelling with the Spellits
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| Company: | BBC Television |
| First run: | Autumn 2002 & Spring 2003 |
| Episodes: | 8 episodes 20 minutes |
| Subject: | English |
| Audience: | Age 7-9 |
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Spelling with the Spellits aka Spelling Rules.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Broadcasts
Here is a list of all of the broadcasts of this story on the BBC. See the Schedules section for precise dates and times.
- Autumn 2002, BBC2 (episodes 1-4 only)
- Spring 2003, BBC2 (episodes 5-8 only)
- Spring 2003, CBBC (episodes 1-4 only)
- Summer 2003, BBC2
- Summer 2003, CBBC
- Autumn 2003, CBBC
- Autumn 2003, BBC2
- Spring 2004, CBBC
- Summer 2004, BBC2
- Summer 2004, CBBC (twice, but episodes 1-4 only the second time)
- Autumn 2004, BBC2
- Autumn 2004, CBBC
- Spring 2005, CBBC (episodes 1-2 only)
- Summer 2005, CBBC
- Autumn 2005, BBC2
- Autumn 2005, CBBC
- Spring 2006, CBBC (episodes 5-8 only)
- Spring 2007, BBC2
- Spring 2007, CBBC (episodes 1&2, 7&8 only)
- Summer 2007, CBBC
- Autumn 2007, BBC2



