09 March 2018
This week, the root words all have the suffixes: er or ing.
All the root words end in e. When adding the suffixes, you have to first drop the e from the root word.
Children could be tested on any of the words – including the root words.
| bike biker biking |
| bake baker baking |
| drive driver driving |
| rude ruder rudest |
| wise wiser wisest |
| cute cuter cutest |
| nice nicer nicest |
02 March 2018
This week, all the spellings are adjectives and adverbs where the y has been dropped for an i before adding ly. In the left column, are the words as adjectives and in the right column are the words after they’ve been changed to an adverb. Children could be tested on either form.
| grumpy grumpily |
| happy happily |
| funny funnily |
| lazy lazily |
| noisy noisily |
| scary scarily |
| cheeky cheekily |
| stealthy stealthily |
23 February 2018
The words this week all require you to drop the y for an i before adding er or est. As children could be tested on any of the variations of the words, we only have five to learn.
| happy happier happiest |
| grumpy grumpier grumpiest |
| shiny shinier shiniest |
| smelly smellier smelliest |
| pretty prettier prettiest |
02 February 2018
The spellings this week are all words which have an -al or a -il ending.
| metal |
| pedal |
| capital |
| animal |
| hospital |
| pencil |
| nostril |
| fossil |
26 January 2018
The spellings this week all contain the -el ending.
| camel |
| tunnel |
| travel |
| towel |
| tinsel |
| squirrel |
| label |
| model |
19 January 2018
This week, the spellings are all words which have an -le ending. This spelling is the most common one for this ‘ul’ sound at the end of words.
| table |
| apple |
| middle |
| bottle |
| little |
| gentle |
| people |
| trouble |
12 January 2018
The spellings this week are all words which have a silent w.
| write |
| wrote |
| wrist |
| wrong |
| wrap |
| wriggle |
| wreck |
| sword |
Can you find any more? I’ll look forward to hearing your answers!
05 January 2018
Next week, we’re learning about words which have a silent ‘k’ at the beginning.
| knock |
| know |
| knew |
| knee |
| knight |
| knot |
| knife |
| knit |
08 December 2017
There are no new spellings this week as we didn’t test on Friday. We’ll test last week’s -dge spellings on Thursday 14 December.
01 December 2017
Next week, in our phonics lessons, we’ll be learning about the j sound at the end of a word.
This is spelled -dge straight after short vowel sounds and -ge after all other sounds.
| badge |
| edge |
| bridge |
| fudge |
| age |
| huge |
| change |
| village |