Spelling

02 July 2021

Posted on Friday 02 July 2021 by Mrs Taylor

Group 1

This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of g, ey and some tricky words.

energy  magic   they   bridge   could  when

Group 2

This week’s spellings are based on Phase 4 words.

milk         fast       jump        thank         think           clap

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 09 July.

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

 

25 June 2021

Posted on Tuesday 29 June 2021 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spelling are words ending in the ‘est’ suffix.

 

fast – fastest

happy – happiest

long – longest

short – shortest

silly – silliest

muddy – muddiest

tall – tallest

tasty – tastiest

Remember, when the word ends in a ‘y’, drop the ‘y’, add an ‘i’ and add ‘est’.

25 June 2021

Posted on Friday 25 June 2021 by Mr Wain

This week, we are learning to spell words beginning with the super and sub prefix.

Here are the words we would like you to learn at home. Could you write each word into a sentence?

  • subheading
  • submarine
  • subordinate
  • subtitles
  • subscribe
  • submerge
  • supervise
  • supermarket
  • superpower
  • superhuman
  • superstar

25 June 2021

Posted on Friday 25 June 2021 by Mrs Taylor

Group 1

This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of ou, y, ch and c.

group        you          why           funny          school            cycle

Group 2

This week’s spellings are based on Phase 3 and 4 tricky words.

you         they           was         are         some         like

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 02 July.

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

18 June 2021

Posted on Sunday 20 June 2021 by Mr Wilks

I’m very sorry for the delay in posting. Here are the words and rule for this week’s spellings.

We are learning to spell words beginning with the anti and inter prefix.

Here are the words we would like you to learn at home. Could you write each word into a sentence?

antiseptic
anticlockwise
antisocial
antibiotic
antibacterial
antifreeze
international
interrupt
interact
interfere

18 June 2021

Posted on Friday 18 June 2021 by Mr Roundtree

In lessons, the children have been learning another key spelling rule: drop the e for ing.  All of the words in the list are verbs.

Before the suffix ing is added to the verb, the e needs to be removed.

 

  • to have                     having
  • to hike                      hiking
  • to write                    writing
  • to use                        using
  • to make                   making
  • to like                       liking
  • to give                      giving
  • to excite                  exciting

 

18 June 2021

Posted on Friday 18 June 2021 by Mrs Taylor

Group 1

This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of the digraphs ow (show rather than owl), ie (field rather than tie) and ea (head rather than sea).

window              slower               field                  shield                 bread             head

Group 2

This week’s spellings are based on Phase 4 words.

hair              hear             cow              star              fork              fur

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 25 June.

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

11 June 2021

Posted on Tuesday 15 June 2021 by Mr Roundtree

For this week’s spellings, we were looking at spelling the /o/ phoneme with an ‘a’ after a ‘w’.

We were also looking at spelling the /ir/ phoneme with an ‘or’ after a ‘w’.

watch

wasp

swamp

wallet

worm

worth

word

world

11 June 2021

Posted on Friday 11 June 2021 by Mrs Taylor

Group 1

This week’s spellings are based on words with alternative pronunciations of the vowels a, e, i, o and u.

was        want          she           kindest          colder            unicorn

Group 2

This week’s spellings are based on Phase 4 words.

stop         trip           went         just         sport         swing

The children will be tested on these words next Friday 18 June.

Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.

21 May 2021

Posted on Friday 21 May 2021 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).

only

old

parents

who

plant

any

many

pretty

Moortown Primary School, Leeds
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