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
| ‘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!