14 June 2013
This week’s spellings look at adding a suffix where the root word does not change eg. care – careless (care has not changed in any way when the suffix has been added).
- careless
- thoughtless
- homeless
- lifeless
- fearless
- jobless
- thankless
- headless
- speechless
- endless
07 June 2013
This week’s spellings are a revisit of words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are still struggling to read these words and / or write them correctly.
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1. |
I am |
I’m |
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2. |
I have |
I’ve |
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3. |
I will |
I’ll |
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4. |
I would |
I’d |
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5. |
you are |
you’re |
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6. |
can not |
can’t |
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7. |
will not |
won’t |
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8. |
could not |
couldn’t |
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9. |
should not |
shouldn’t |
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10. |
are not |
aren’t |
07 June 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 14 June 2013.
Lions: Drop the e for ing
This is one of our three main spelling rules.
- explore
- exploring
- decide
- deciding
- hope
- hoping
- write
- writing
- dive
- diving
Tigers / Zebras: For short vowel sounds double up for ing
This is one of our three main spelling rules.
- tap
- tapping
- hop
- hopping
- skip
- skipping
- pop
- popping
- get
- getting
07 June 2013
This week, we’re revisiting words which have a split digraph.
Remember a split digraph is when the ‘e’ at the end of words works with another letter to make a longer sound. Think about the difference between hop and hope – both have three sounds (phonemes), but the split digraph in hope creates a ‘long o’ sound. Other examples in the list below is the difference between Tim and time and made and made.
These words will be tested on Friday 14 June.
| time |
| like |
| home |
| pole |
| use |
| huge |
| cake |
| made |
| ride |
07 June 2013
Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two words that sound the same are spelt differently.
| LO: To use the correct homophone. |
| bare / bear |
| buy / by / bye |
| for / four |
| hear / here |
| been / bean |
| wait / weight |
In these next two sentences there are five homophones. See if you can spot them!
Whilst most of the spellings are pretty straightforward, the challenge is whether you can tell which one is necessary for the sentence.
For example:
I have been/bean to the shops.
Can you write the correct homophone in this sentence?
It’s the half-term break…
…so there’s no homework or spellings this week. Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.
17 May 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 24 May 2013.
Zebras
Words using ‘igh’
- high
- night
- height
- fright
- right
- fight
- tight
- light
- might
- sight
Tigers
Adverbs ending in ‘ly’
- sadly
- fairly
- slowly
- quickly
- kindly
- shyly
- proudly
- nicely
- loudly
- sweetly
Lions
Lions will also be learning to change adjectives into adverbs. They will learn that if an adjective ends in ‘y’ they drop the ‘y’ and then add ‘ily’.
- sadly
- calmly
- slowly
- quickly
- smartly
- angrily
- happily
- scarily
- nastily
- stealthily
17 May 2013
The spellings this week all contain the ending sion. You’ll notice that this ending makes the same ‘shun’ sound as last week’s spellings.
Can you also spot the words which have a double up for a short vowel sound?
| 1. | passion |
| 2. | mission |
| 3. | division |
| 4. | confusion |
| 5. | discussion |
| 6. | invasion |
| 7. | explosion |
| 8. | conclusion |
| 9. | confession |
| 10. | aggression |
17 May 2013
This is the last week we’ll be focussing on a familiar set of letters. The letter string this week is ou. Again, these letters are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg out, pour).
| LO: words that contain ou |
| shout |
| hour |
| pour |
| yours |
| foul |
| would |
| mourn |
| route |
| journey |
| could |
17 May 2013
This week we are looking at a trigraph: a three letter grapheme, where three letters represent one sound (phoneme), as in air (three letters making one sound).
These words will be tested on Friday 25 May 2013.
| air |
| fair |
| hairbrush |
| chair |
| airport |
| stair |