Spelling

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.

18 November 2016

Choose some words from previous spelling lists that you found hard and practise them using the strategies at the front of your homework book.

18 November 2016

We’re still focussing on irregular verbs this week so here’s another list. However, there are lots more. Try to spot some when you’re reading.

Children may be tested on the infinitive form of the verb (to lose) or the simple past tense version of the word (lost). The children have already spent some time looking at these words so they aren’t unfamiliar. However, as we’ve moved back to testing every week, we’ve dropped the number of spellings down to eight.

If you’ve any questions about this list or spelling generally, please ask.

to lose           lost

to fall             fell

to hide           hid

to drive          drove

to fight           fought

to win            won

to pay            paid

to find           found

18 November 2016

This week, I will not be giving your child a spelling list. Instead, during our spelling test on Friday 25 November, I will read out ten sentences that contain at least one apostrophe. Your child will need to figure out which words need an apostrophe and use it correctly. For example…

• Some of my book’s pages were torn. (Here, an apostrophe is needed because the book ‘owns’ the pages.)
• I believe they are Mr Jones’ golf clubs. (An apostrophe is needed to show Mr Jones owns the clubs, and in this case it comes after the s because Mr Jones has an s at the end of his name.)
• I can’t believe you lost your book. (There’s a missing letter here, because can not has been contracted.)

To prepare for the test, your child should practise using apostrophes for possession and contraction/omission.

18 November 2016

Our spelling list leads on from our spelling activity from last week. These are the homophones that Year 6 need to learn – remember it’s not the spellings that are tricky but knowing when to use them so you need to practise using them in sentences correctly.

11 November 2016

The spellings for this week have the prefix re- or mis-. Pay special attention to misspell. This is often spelt incorrectly as an s is accidentally omitted.

• react
  refill
  rebuild
  retake
  recycle
• misplace
  misunderstand
  misspell
  misbehave
  mislead