Spelling

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.

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.

25 November 2016

The spellings for this week are below:

25 November 2016

So far this year, we have learnt to spell words with the following prefixes:
un – negative meaning
mis – negative meaning
dis – negative meaning
re -meaning again or back

The spellings for this week contain the following prefixes:
auto – meaning self or own
anti – meaning against
sub – meaning under

autograph
autobiography
automatic
submarine
subway
subtitle
submerge
anticlockwise
antibiotic

25 November 2016

Next we’ll, we’ll be focussing on word endings in …tious and …cious. Here are some words which end in these sounds. Work out the root word for each of them and think about how this can help you to decide whether the spelling is with a ‘t’ or a ‘c’.

vicious, precious, conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious, ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious

25 November 2016

Words I commonly spell incorrectly

This week, we investigated the spelling mistakes children have made so far this year. Children found words they have spelled incorrectly, found out how it should be spelled, made a list of the mistakes they’ve made and identified the spelling patterns/rules they commonly make errors with.

I will not give them a word list this week. Instead, they should practise the words they identified as ones they commonly misspell and learn these. A partner will test them on these words on Friday 02 November.

Children should use this page to show which strategies they used to practise – we’ll look at even more strategies in our spelling lessons this week.