03 July 2015
This week, we’re practising spelling words which have a prefix – a series of letters which are at the beginning of a word.
- dishonest
- disagree
- disobey
- impossible
- impatient
- impolite
- rewrite
- recount
- refresh
- rethink
26 June 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 03 July.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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steady |
like |
dripped |
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head |
white |
shopped |
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bread |
high |
thinner |
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feather |
bright |
maddest |
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bear |
tried |
puppy |
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tear |
cried |
swimming |
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dead |
kind |
dropping |
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ready |
find |
winner |
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sky |
digger |
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right |
wettest |
26 June 2015
The spellings this week are all homophones (words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings). The words are listed in pairs and children may be tested on any of the words. As the spellings sound the same, they will need to understand the context that the word is read in.
Group 2 should learn all of the words.
Group 1 do not have to (but are encouraged) to learn the bold words.
| 1. | where | wear |
| 2. | weak | week |
| 3. | our | are |
| 4. | new | knew |
| 5. | bean | been |
| 6. | past | passed |
| 7. | through | threw |
| 8. | aloud | allowed |
| 9. | guessed | guest |
| 10. | weather | whether |
19 June 2015
The spellings this week are all words with silent letters. The silent letter in each word is in bold.
| 1. | doubt |
| 2. | lamb |
| 3. | limb |
| 4. | tomb |
| 5. | knight |
| 6. | knock |
| 7. | knowledge |
| 8. | honest |
| 9. | ghastly |
| 10. | rhyme |
19 June 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 26 June.
Please note that there are only two spelling lists this week – Year 1 and Year 2.
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Year 1 |
Year 2 |
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daisy |
oak |
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poppy |
beech |
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tulip |
horse-chestnut |
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daffodil |
sycamore |
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rose |
willow |
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buttercup |
holly |
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sunflower |
cherry |
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bluebell |
ash |
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fir |
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birch |
12 June 2015
All the spellings this week contain the letter string ough. It’s important to practise reading these words as well as writing them down as there are a variety of sounds that the ough words can make.
The sound which the ough word make are shown in bold in the list eg ‘uff‘.
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‘uff’ |
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| 1. | enough |
| 2. | rough |
| 3. | tough |
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‘or’ |
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| 4. | bought |
| 5. | thought |
| 6. | brought |
| 7. | fought |
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‘owe’ |
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| 8. | though |
| 9. | dough |
| 10. | although |
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‘off’ |
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| 11. | cough |
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‘ow’ |
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| 12. | plough |
12 June 2015
This week’s spellings are nouns (singular to plural).
For some of the words, you have to drop the y and replace it with an ies in order to pluralise the word. Can you spot any other spelling patterns or rules in these words?
| 1. | century centuries |
| 2. | baby babies |
| 3. | child children |
| 4. | knife knives |
| 5. | thief thieves |
| 6. | volcano volcanoes |
| 7. | tomato tomatoes |
| 8. | potato potatoes |
| 9. | woman women |
| 10. | library libraries |
12 June 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 19 June.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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soil |
green |
redder |
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seed |
even |
reddest |
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grow |
each |
brighter |
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beanstalk |
team |
brightest |
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plant |
piece |
rougher |
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sow |
family |
roughest |
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water |
twenty |
shinier |
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compost |
thirty |
shiniest |
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complete |
happier |
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honey |
happiest |
05 June 2015
This week’s spellings are common words that are often spelt incorrectly. A good way to practice these is to put them into sentences.
| 1. | because |
| 2. | through |
| 3. | went |
| 4. | with |
| 5. | should |
| 6. | could |
| 7. | would |
| 8. | any |
| 9. | school |
| 10. | people |
05 June 2015
The spellings this week are all words where the ‘i before e except after c’ rule applies. You’re in luck this week because there aren’t many of them!
| 1. | ceiling |
| 2. | deceive |
| 3. | perceive |
| 4. | receipt |
| 5. | deceit |
| 6. | conceive |
| 7. | receive |