Spelling

20 January 2017

This week’s spellings all end in ‘tial and ‘cial. They’re not difficult spellings but we need to know when to start this ‘chul’ sound with ‘t’ and when to start it with ‘c’.

Usually, where the part of the word preceding ‘chul’ ends with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u), we use C-I-A-L. However, there are a couple of exceptions to this: commercial and financial.

If the part of the word preceding ‘chul’ ends with a consonant, we use T-I-A-L. I can think of one exception: initial.

These words will be tested on Friday 27 January.

13 January 2017

13 January 2016

For the next two weeks, we will focus on the ‘ably’ and ‘ibly’ word endings. To help them learn when to use the correct ending, children should complete the following activity by Thursday 20 January.

Earlier in the year, we learnt about the able and ible word endings and identified some rules and conventions to help us spell these words correctly. Children should reflect on this learning and investigate the following questions:

• True or false…all words that end in ‘able’ can be changed to end in ‘ably’?
• True or false…all words that end in ‘ible’ can be changed to end in ‘ibly’?
• Can you spot a pattern, rule or convention when changing words to end in ‘ably’ or ‘ibly’?
• Is it always, sometimes or never true that words ending in ‘ably’ or ‘ibly’ are adverbs? Prove it.

13 January 2017

Spelling worksheet due in Thursday 19 January 2017.

This week, to help with spelling, children have been given a worksheet concentrating on the ‘ness’ and ‘ful’ suffixes. Your child will have a spelling test on Friday 20 January based on the spellings they learned last week for homework.

13 January 2017

All week, we’ve been going through the Year 5/6 spelling list identifying which words we think we already know.

For this week’s spelling activity, the children should practise those spellings they already know by writing them into sentences as well as identifying ten words which they feel they’ll struggle to remember.

There won’t be a test on Friday; instead we’ll discuss the words we’ve identified as trickier and create a spelling list for us to learn the following week.

06 January 2017

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

09 December 2016