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Stop being your class's human dictionary: count the “How do you spell…?” questions fall in 2 weeks, even if your learners have ignored every poster you've ever put up.
30 spelling posters sorted by the sound a child hears, put up six at a time — without having to be a spelling expert, without printing hundreds of sheets, without a subscription and without a project that eats your weekend.
Yes, I want my class to stop asking me
Six posters printed tonight in 10 minutes. Your number in 2 weeks.
If this is your writing time, this is for you
You're not doing it wrong. Asking you is just faster than looking.
You answer the same spelling question fifty times a day.
‘Miss, how do you spell…?’ again, and by Thursday your voice has gone.
You lose your reading group to a line of raised hands.
You're listening to one child read when the fifth hand goes up, and everyone waits while you spell a word.
You put posters up and watch your learners walk past them.
A free print-out, a home-made chart, a word mat: a day of interest, then it's wallpaper.
You lose your Sunday printing a wall nobody can find anything on.
Pages of colour ink, a queue at the school printer, and the right poster still isn't where a six-year-old looks.
What changes
Six things no other set of spelling posters gives you.
You stop being the first person they ask.
The wall answers first: learners hear the sound, follow the colour and find the spelling themselves.
You hear every child in your reading group read to the end.
No more stopping mid-sentence to spell a word for someone across the room.
You print the first six posters tonight, in about 10 minutes.
A week-by-week plan decides the order, so there is nothing to plan and nothing to choose.
You stop printing the whole wall at once.
Every poster comes in colour and in an ink-saver version, and you print six at a time.
You stop dreading the question ‘but why?’.
The Back-Pocket Rule Guide gives you the rule, the why and the exception in one line per poster.
You see the difference on paper, in your own handwriting.
Tally the questions for a week before and a week after, and the number is yours.
The method
Make the wall faster than you.
Your learners ask you because you're the fastest dictionary in the room. Most spelling posters lose that race. They're sorted by the name of the rule, which is how a teacher thinks, not how a six-year-old listens. And a wall of hundreds is just wallpaper: nobody can find anything on it.
The Faster-Than-You Method: thirty posters sorted by the sound a child hears and split into five colour zones, so any learner can find the one they need in five seconds. You put them up six at a time, teach a 5-minute lesson — wall, whisper, then me — and count the questions to see it work.
Hear the sound. Follow the colour. Find the poster.
Try it: the 5-second test
Pick a sound. Follow the colour. Find the poster.
This is the whole wall on one map: five colour zones, six posters each. Tap a sound a child might ask about.
The /j/ at the end of ‘bridge’
1Sounds at the end
The ‘-ge / -dge’ poster
The long /ee/ in ‘sea’
2Vowel sounds
The ‘ee / ea / ey’ poster
The /n/ at the start of ‘knee’
3Tricky consonants
The ‘kn’ poster
The ending in ‘hopping’
4Endings
The ‘-ing’ poster
‘their’ or ‘there’?
5Look-alike words
The ‘there / their / they're’ poster
Five seconds is the test, not a promise: time one learner in your own room.
Illustrative example of how the map works.
How it works
Three steps, and your number in two weeks.
You print the first twelve posters and the count sheet.
Two sittings of about 10 minutes, six posters at a time, in colour or in ink-saver.
You count one ordinary week.
Before anything goes up, tally the spelling questions in one writing session each day. It takes seconds.
You put the wall up and teach the 5-minute lesson.
On Monday the first twelve go up, then it's wall, whisper, then me. Count for another week and compare your two numbers.
Ten minutes at a time. Nothing to plan.
What you get
Three pieces that work together.
E1
The wall
The 5-Second Wall Posters
30 posters in five colour zones, sorted by the sound a child hears. Each one has the sound, the ways to spell it, eight words with a picture clue and one ‘Watch out’. A4 PDF, every poster in colour and in ink-saver (60 pages).
E2
The plan
The 5-Week Wall Plan
About 8 pages. The wall map, what to print and when, the 5-second test and the 5-minute Look-First lesson, with its script.
E3
The proof
The Ask-Count Sheets
4 printable pages for tallying your spelling questions one week before and one week after. Your number, in your own handwriting, and the proof behind your guarantee.
A look inside
How it's organised, before you buy.
Ten pages that show how the set is laid out: one poster from each zone, the map, the plan, the lesson, the count sheet and the ink-saver version. They illustrate the structure; the finished pages follow the same layout.
Hover to pause.
Yours free for the next 15 minutes
Three gifts. Each one answers a single doubt.
Gift 1
The Desk Strips
‘The wall's across the room. They'll still just ask me.’ Five strips, one per colour zone, to tape on a table or in a book: the wall comes to where they write.
Gift 2
The Back-Pocket Rule Guide
‘I was never taught the spelling rules myself. What if a child asks me why?’ One line per poster: the rule, the why in plain words and the exception to watch. About 8 pages.
Gift 3
The Still-Stuck Cards
‘Some of them will ignore the wall anyway.’ Six Look–Say–Check cards for the child who still guesses, for a teaching assistant or for a buddy: back to the wall in three steps, not back to you.
What's in the set
Everything together, with one payment.
Today you save R1,751 — that's 87.5% off the value of the set.
One payment. Yours for life. No subscription.
The three gifts expire in
After that the price is the same: it's the gifts that disappear.
Yes, I want my class to stop asking me
Sent by email within 48 hours · 60-day guarantee · No subscription
The Count-or-Refund Guarantee — 60 days
If your count doesn't fall, you don't pay.
Put up the first twelve posters, teach the 5-minute lesson, and count your learners' spelling questions for one week before and one week after on the Ask-Count Sheets. If your second week isn't at least a third lower, email us both sheets within 60 days of buying and we refund every rand. You keep everything.
The guarantee is about your number, not about whether you liked it. You can check it on your own sheets, and so can we.
Questions teachers ask first
What people ask before they buy.
I've put posters up before and my learners ignored them. Why would this be different?
Most posters are sorted by the name of the rule and then left on the wall. These are sorted by the sound a child hears, in five colour zones, and the set includes a 5-minute Look-First lesson that teaches the class to check the wall before they ask. The 5-second test shows you, in your own room, whether a child can find one.
Why only 30 posters? Other bundles have hundreds.
Because a wall of hundreds is wallpaper: a child can't find the one they need, and you can't print them all. These 30 are built from the statutory spelling list for Years 1 and 2 in England's national curriculum, plus the look-alike words children mix up, and you put them up six at a time.
Does it work with the phonics programme my school uses?
It sits alongside any programme. The posters are organised by sound, not by lesson number or programme name. It doesn't teach reading: it's what learners look at while they write.
What ages and countries is it for?
Ages 5 to 8: Reception to Year 3 in England, Junior Infants to 2nd class in Ireland, Grade 1 to 3 in South Africa. British spelling throughout.
How much ink and paper does it take?
Every poster comes in full colour and in an ink-saver version. You print six at a time, not the whole wall at once.
How is this different from the free printables I can find online?
Use them for a single rule. What they don't give you is a system: sound-first order, a 5-week plan, the lesson that teaches the class to look, and a count that shows whether it worked.
Is it a subscription?
No. One payment, yours for life.
When do I get it?
Once your payment is confirmed, by email, within 48 hours at most.
And if the questions don't drop?
The Count-or-Refund Guarantee: do the count on the Ask-Count Sheets, and if your second week isn't at least a third lower, send us both sheets within 60 days of buying and we refund every rand. You keep everything.
One last thing
Next Monday, your learners can check the wall before they ask you.
Thirty posters, a five-week plan and a count that shows whether it worked, with three gifts while the timer runs and a 60-day guarantee behind it.
Yes, I want to stop being the dictionary
One payment · 60-day guarantee · Sent by email within 48 hours
The 5-Second Wall — a printable PDF poster set with a plan and count sheets. Digital product: nothing is posted to you. For use in your own classroom; resale and sharing are not permitted. An independent resource, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department for Education, Ofsted, any ministry of education or any phonics programme.