06 January 2016
I’ve updated the blurb about this week’s spellings as there was a mistake. Sorry for any confusion.
06 January 2017
This week’s spellings focus on the letter string, ‘ough’.
- enough
- tough
- though
- thought
- rough
- ought
- cough
- bought
- brought
- drought
- although
- dough
- plough
- sought
- thorough
Ten of these spellings (or words in their word families, eg thorough and thoroughly) will be tested on Friday 13 January.
06 January 2016
| ‘Rare GPCs’
We have been focusing on strategies to help you remember how to spell words with an usual grapheme-phoneme correspondence (words that are tricky to spell because they don’t follow more conventional rules/patterns). Children should learn how to spell these words in preparation for a test on Friday 13 January. |
| wrapper |
| guard |
| guide |
| receive |
| guarantee |
| bruise |
| queue |
| vehicle |
| yacht |
| immediately |
09 December 2016
09 December 2016
The spelling test will be on all the rules you have learnt so far.
- Adding prefixes and suffixes, including ‘drop the e for ing/ed/er’
- ‘y’ making an ‘i’ sound
- homophones
- double up for a short vowel sound
It’s the last spelling test of 2016 so make this one a brilliant one!
09 December 2016
For our spelling test next week, children will be asked to spell a selection of words that they have previously learnt this year. Children should briefly recap each spelling focus and spend time consolidating their learning around these words. They may choose to focus on the words they spelt incorrectly when they were tested on them previously.
Our spelling test will be on Friday 16 December 2016.
09 December 2016
There’s not a theme with spellings this week and there’ll be no test. I’ve given the children the Year 5/6 spelling list which indicates which words Year 6s need to know (that they haven’t learnt already in Year 3 and 4). I want them to look through the spellings and see if they can create groups of words which could be learnt together.
- homophones
- spelling patterns
- suffixes
- prefixes
- rhymes and rememberings
Then look and see which words it is difficult to put into a group – these are probably the hardest to learn.
02 December 2016
Here are the spellings for this week:
02 December 2016
Hyphens
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the use of hyphens. Children should sort the compound adjectives below in to words that need a hyphen and those that don’t. They need to be careful though – I’ve tried to catch them out.
| Hyphen | No hyphen |
man-eating actionpacked heavy-metal good-luck
hand-picked over-sleep mine-field tip-toed
state-of-the-art under-whelmed re-organise re-do
reignite cooperate coown foot-ball
Next, children should add two more of their own to each column.
02 December 2016
We’ve been exploring words ending in …tious and …cious for our spelling activity and next week these are the spellings we’ll be tested on.
- vicious
- malicious
- suspicious
- precious
- conscious
- delicious
- nutritious
- surreptitious
- conscientious
- cautious
- infectious
- fictitious
- ambitious
Ten words will be tested on Friday which could be from this list or could be in one of these word’s word family.
Word families are a great way to practise spelling: infect, infectious, infecting, infected, disinfect, disinfectant. Not only do I have to write the spelling pattern over and over again, but it also highlights that there’s a ‘t’ in all of these words therefore, I’ll use a ‘t’ for the …tious spelling.