XXVII February MMXV
This week, the words all end in cial. Usually cial is used when the letter before it is a vowel. However, there are a few exceptions: financial, commercial.
| Group 1 | |
| 1. | beneficial |
| 2. | crucial |
| 3. | financial |
| 4. | official |
| 5. | racial |
| 6. | social |
| 7. | special |
| 8. | commercial |
| 9. | A couple of the above words with prefixes. |
| 10. |
27.02.15
This week, the words are all words with double up for short vowel sounds. These words are taken from the National Curriculum list.
| Group 2 | |
| 1. | accident |
| 2. | address |
| 3. | appear |
| 4. | different |
| 5. | difficult |
| 6. | grammar |
| 7. | opposite |
| 8. | possible |
| 9. | pressure |
| 10. | suppose |
27 February 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 06 March.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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like |
people |
everywhere |
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night |
Mr |
everything |
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slide |
Mrs |
everybody |
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bite |
looked |
somewhere |
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might |
called |
something |
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time |
asked |
somebody |
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lime |
would |
anywhere |
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sight |
should |
anything |
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there |
anybody |
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their |
nowhere |
06 February 2015
Group 1 – The spellings this week are all words which end with tious. There aren’t many words with this ending so you also have the words with some prefixes. Think about what these prefixes do to the word and find other words which have this prefix.
| 1. | ambitious |
| 2. | cautious |
| 3. | fictitious |
| 4. | infectious |
| 5. | nutritious |
| 6. | pretentious |
| 7. | unambitious |
| 8. | unpretentious |
| 9. | overambitious |
| 10. | overcautious |
Group 2 – This week, we’re continuing with words which contain silent letters. This time, the silent letters in the words are either a b or an h.
| 1. | crumb |
| 2. | thumb |
| 3. | limb |
| 4. | doubt |
| 5. | numb |
| 6. | honest |
| 7. | ghost |
| 8. | hour |
| 9. | heir |
| 10. | exhausted |
06 February 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 13 February.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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shout |
coat |
unable |
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loud |
toast |
untie |
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flour |
window |
unfold |
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proud |
bowl |
unforgivable |
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pound |
tomatoes |
unwilling |
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about |
stone |
dislike |
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home |
disobey |
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gold |
disallow |
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disappear |
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disloyal |
30 January 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday o6 February.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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some |
school |
thoughtful |
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come |
flute |
careless |
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children |
knew |
grateful |
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little |
blue |
flawless |
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out |
through |
thankful |
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from |
music |
joyful |
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June |
blameless |
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shoe |
graceful |
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restless |
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tearful |
30 January 2015
Group 1
The spellings this week are all words which end with cious. If the root word ends in –ce, the sound is usually spelt as c. Eg. vice – vicious, grace – gracious.
| 1. | delicious |
| 2. | precious |
| 3. | spacious |
| 4. | vicious |
| 5. | tenacious |
| 6. | malicious |
| 7. | suspicious |
| 8. | unconscious |
| 9. | gracious |
| 10. | atrocious |
Group 2
For the next couple of weeks we’ll be investigating words which contain silent letters. This week,they are mostly at the start of the word. Can you spot the one which isn’t?
| 1. | know |
| 2. | knee |
| 3. | knock |
| 4. | knife |
| 5. | write |
| 6. | wrong |
| 7. | wreck |
| 8. | answer |
23 January 2015
The spellings this week are (almost all) proper nouns which link in with our new Time Travel topic. As these words are proper nouns, they need a capital letter.
The final word is conquer. I would like the children to learn this word and any other words in its ‘family’, eg conquered. Children could be tested on any of these ‘family’ words.
| 1. | Great Britain |
| 2. | British |
| 3. | Anglo-Saxons |
| 4. | Celts |
| 5. | Vikings |
| 6. | Tudors |
| 7. | Stuarts |
| 8. | Georgians |
| 9. | Victorians |
| 10. | conquer |
23 January 2015
Her are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 30 January.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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what |
sort |
spookier |
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when |
yawn |
happiest |
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my |
talk |
bigger |
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out |
August |
maddest |
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her |
author |
tougher |
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do |
your |
roughest |
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four |
stranger |
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daughter |
cutest |
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quicker |
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foggier |
16 January 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 23 January. Apologies for not posting these before now.
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Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
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said |
curl |
swimming |
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so |
world |
digging |
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was |
learn |
jogging |
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he |
first |
running |
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she |
thirsty |
throwing |
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we |
stronger |
chewing |
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faster |
talking |
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third |
waving |
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|
taking |
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dancing |
16 January 2015
The spellings this week have either ibly or ably suffix. The words in the left column, show the words with the able or ible suffix. The words in the second column are the ibly and ably words which they will be tested on.
Group 1
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adjective |
adverb |
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1. |
possible |
possibly |
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2. |
responsible |
responsibly |
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3. |
incredible |
incredibly |
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4. |
visible |
visibly |
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5. |
preferable |
preferably |
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6. |
noticeable |
noticeably |
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7. |
considerable |
considerably |
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8. |
tolerable |
tolerably |
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9. |
comfortable |
comfortably |
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10. |
reasonable |
reasonably |
Group 2
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adjective |
adverb |
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1. |
possible |
possibly |
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2. |
horrible |
horribly |
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3. |
terrible |
terribly |
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4. |
sensible |
sensibly |
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5. |
incredible |
incredibly |
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6. |
comfortable |
comfortably |
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7. |
fashionable |
fashionably |
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8. |
considerable |
considerably |
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9. |
reasonable |
reasonably |
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10. |
preferable |
preferably |
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adjective |
adverb |
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1. |
possible |
possibly |
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2. |
responsible |
responsibly |
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3. |
incredible |
incredibly |
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4. |
visible |
visibly |
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5. |
preferable |
preferably |
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6. |
noticeable |
noticeably |
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7. |
considerable |
considerably |
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8. |
tolerable |
tolerably |
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9. |
comfortable |
comfortably |
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10. |
reasonable |
reasonably |