10 January 2020
This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘a_e’ split digraph.
| make |
| shake |
| tame |
| snake |
| plane |
| flame |
10 January 2020
The spellings this week are words that require the doubling up of consonants when adding the suffix ed or ing to a word with a short vowel. The children will be tested on both suffixes.
- to pat patted
- to hop hopped
- to drop dropped
- to trap trapped
- to hum humming
- to slip slipping
- to grin grinning
10 January 2020
This week’s spellings recaps the children’s understanding of commonly misused homophones. Practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class. There will be no test next week but we will share our spelling practice in our homework review on Thursday 16 January.
| homophones | |
| there
they’re their hear here to two too |
witch
which where wear were of off |
13 December 2109
This week’s spellings are common exception words.
What are common exception words?
Sometimes called red words or tricky words, common exception words are rebels. They don’t quite follow the spelling or phonics rules that children are taught in years 1 and 2.
- any
- many
- clothes
- busy
- people
- even
- everybody
- Christmas
The children will be tested on these words on Thursday 19th December.
13 December 2019
This week’s spellings take us back to the learning we did at the beginning of the year on homophones. This week, you must practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class on Thursday 19 December.
| homophones | |
| there
they’re their hear here two too to |
witch
which where wear were of off |
06 December 2019
This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘wh’, ‘ph’, ‘au’ and ‘oe’ digraph.
| when |
| dolphin |
| haul |
| haunt |
| toes |
| woe |
06 December 2019
Next week, we will be learning words which have a silent w.
- write
- wrote
- wrist
- wrong
- wrap
- wriggle
- wreck
- sword
06 December 2019
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apostrophes |
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| This week’s spelling list is formed using words from the Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling list. Children need to know all of these words by the end of year six. Your task, this week, is to write a story that contains all of these words but you need to add an apostrophe for either possession or contraction – for example: “The school’s play was amazing.” Or “School’s out for Christmas, soon!” | ||||
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community |
government | individual | neighbour | professional |
| restaurant | secretary | soldier | vehicle |
yacht |
06 December 2019
This week’s spelling focuses on adding suffixes to words ending in y. The words we are focusing on are on the right and the suffixes we are adding are on the right. Usually, when we add a suffix to a word ending in y, we drop the y for an i. There are some exceptions to this. Chn need to practise these spellings in their books, using the effective strategies that are in the back of their homework books. There will be a test on Friday 13 December as we will have no test in the final week of term.
| adding suffixes to words ending in y | ||
| ed
ing er est ful ness ly ies |
busy
century library naughty ordinary copy worry cry reply |
funny
happy scary pretty silly marry ugly creepy carry |
29 November 2019
| suffixes | ||||
| This week’s spelling list is formed using words that have the suffix -able or -ible. When practising these spellings, write a story that contains them all. The best stories will get five golden tickets. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out. As always, if you need any help, please come and see me before the deadline! |
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| manageable | respectable | reliable | forgivable | valuable |
| horrible | possible | invincible | incredible | reversible |