25 January 2013
Here is the Year Six spelling list for this week. Children are continuing to look at ly words and learning the meanings of the words to extend their vocabulary for writing.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 01 February.
- carelessly
- sorrowfully
- especially
- successfully
- fearlessly
- eventually
- originally
- forgetfully
- personally
- beautifully
- resentfully
- mercilessly
25 January 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 01 February 2013.
Lions
The rule is ‘drop the e for ing’, so, for example, ‘make’ becomes ‘making’.
- liking
- riding
- waving
- taming
- smiling
- hiding
- moving
- having
- writing
- shaking
Tigers
- girl
- bird
- burger
- hurt
- first
- after
- her
- return
- turn
- dirt
Zebras
Zebras are working on their split digraph spellings again this week.
25 January 2013
For the next couple of weeks, we’ll investigate 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 |
25 January 2013
This week’s spellings are plurals again. However, this week our spellings require you to drop a y from the route word and replace it with ies.
| LO: drop the y for ies | |
| spy | spies |
| city | cities |
| party | parties |
| baby | babies |
| lady | ladies |
| injury | injuries |
| worry | worries |
| galaxy | galaxies |
This is very similar to one of our main spelling rules. Do you know which one it is?
25 January 2013
We’re still practising words which have split digraphs. This week we are looking at ‘u – e‘, for example, tub (with a short ‘u’ sound) changes to tube (with a longer ‘u’ sound) when there’s an ‘e’.
| cube |
| huge |
| tune |
| use |
| tube |
| cute |
These will be tested on Friday 01 February 2013.
18 January 2013
This week’s spellings for Lions and Tigers end in ‘ge’ or ‘dge’. A useful tip is that if the word has a short vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘dge’. If the word has a long vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘ge’.
- bridge
- hedge
- huge
- damage
- village
- badge
- stage
- judge
- message
- badger
This week’s spellings for Zebras are words with the split digraph.
- take
- make
- bike
- like
- spoke
- came
- cake
- ride
- spike
- broke
Spellings will be tested on Friday 25 January 2013.
18 January 2012
This week we look at words with the split vowel digraph a-e: two letters, split by a consonant, which make a ‘long a’ sound.
These words will be tested on Friday 25 January.
| cake |
| make |
| late |
| made |
| sale |
| mate |
| gate |
| snake |
18 January 2013
This week we are continuing to look at words with ful as a suffix. The words on the list can also become adverbs with the addition of an extra suffix: ful and ly.
For example: mercy merciful mercifully
Children will be tested on Friday 25 January on the root words with both ful and fully added as a suffix.
- beauty
- delight
- sorrow
- disgrace
- boast
- fear
- help
- spite
- power
18 January 2013
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.
| 1. | rough |
| 2. | cough |
| 3. | enough |
| 4. | tough |
| 5. | though |
| 6. | dough |
| 7. | although |
| 8. | thought |
Children will be tested on all eight words on Friday 25 January.
18 January 2012
This week’s spellings are plurals again. However, this week our spellings require you to add an es to the route word to make it a plural.
What do you notice about the ends of the route words?
| LO: plurals – add es | |
| glass | glasses |
| dress | dresses |
| beach | beaches |
| match | matches |
| fox | foxes |
| virus | viruses |
| atlas | atlases |
| bush | bushes |