14 September 2012
This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.
This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter. This means that you need to double the final letter when adding ‘ing’.
The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 21 September.
| 1. | hop | hopping |
| 2. | run | running |
| 3. | shut | shutting |
| 4. | chat | chatting |
| 5. | shop | shopping |
| 6. | plan | planning |
| 7. | win | winning |
| 8. | swim | swimming |
| 9. | begin | beginning |
| 10. | stun | stunning |
07 September 2012
The spellings this week are all words where you have to drop the ‘e’ at the end of the word when adding ‘ing’.
The chant we use to remember the rule is drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.
The children have ten spellings to learn but will only be tested on eight out of the ten words.
| 1. | hope | hoping |
| 2. | use | using |
| 3. | write | writing |
| 4. | take | taking |
| 5. | shake | shaking |
| 6. | joke | joking |
| 7. | share | sharing |
| 8. | smile | smiling |
| 9. | have | having |
| 10. | shuffle | shuffling |
06 July 2012
We’ll be writing instructions in our literacy lessons next week so the spellings are all adverbs which could be used to describe how to do something.
Top tip for writing: You can move the adverb to the start of the sentence with a comma after it to make it an adverb opener. For example:
Stir the porridge gently.
Could become…
Gently, stir the porridge.
| 1. | quickly |
| 2. | slowly |
| 3. | gently |
| 4. | roughly |
| 5. | smoothly |
| 6. | carefully |
| 7. | firmly |
| 8. | angrily |
| 9. | furiously |
| 10. | energetically |
29 June 2012
This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful which means ‘full of’.
Notice how when full is added on to the end it loses one of its ls. For example, wish and full becomes wishful.
| 1. | wishful |
| 2. | hopeful |
| 3. | painful |
| 4. | awful |
| 5. | helpful |
| 6. | careful |
| 7. | powerful |
| 8. | wonderful |
| 9. | beautiful |
| 10. | successful |
22 June 2012
This week, we’re returning to words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. The spellings will be tested on Friday 29 June. Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.
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1. |
it is |
it’s |
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2. |
can not |
can’t |
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3. |
will not |
won’t |
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4. |
do not |
don’t |
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5. |
should not |
shouldn’t |
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6. |
could not |
couldn’t |
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7. |
would not |
wouldn’t |
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8. |
does not |
doesn’t |
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9. |
I will |
I’ll |
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10. |
I have |
I’ve |
15 June 2012
This week’s spellings are all more interesting words to use in your writing instead of said. The words also all have ‘ed’ endings because they’re in the past tense.
I’ve listed the words in order of how loud I think the words would be spoken. I think that number one is the quietest and that they get louder until number eight. Do you agree?
Can you think of any other words that would fit?
| 1. | mouthed |
| 2. | mumbled |
| 3. | muttered |
| 4. | grunted |
| 5. | called |
| 6. | exclaimed |
| 7. | cried |
| 8. | roared |
| 9. | shrieked |
| 10. | boomed |
25 May 2012
This week’s spellings are a mixture of our three main spelling rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits any of the three rules.
| Double up for a short vowel sound | |
| 1. | snapping |
| 2. | madder |
| 3. | terrible |
| Drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ | |
| 4. | making |
| 5. | surprising |
| 6. | frustrating |
| Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ | |
| 7. | nastily |
| 8. | craftily |
| 9. | moodily |
| 10. | ???????? |
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are all tricky words which have been misspelled in our writing recently. Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 25 May.
| 1. | people |
| 2. | asked |
| 3. | could |
| 4. | because |
| 5. | went |
| 6. | once |
| 7. | which |
| 8. | thought |
| 9. | believe |
| 10. | favourite |
11 May 2012
This week we’re revisiting one of the most important spelling rules: drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. All the words in the list are adjectives that end in a ‘y’. When they are changed into adverbs you need to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ before adding ‘ly’.
Children will be tested on eight out of the 10 words on Friday 18 May.
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1. |
happy |
happily |
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2. |
speedy |
speedily |
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3. |
gloomy |
gloomily |
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4. |
lucky |
luckily |
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5. |
messy |
messily |
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6. |
spooky |
spookily |
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7. |
pretty |
prettily |
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8. |
shabby |
shabbily |
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9. |
greasy |
greasily |
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10. |
hasty |
hastily |
04 May 2012
This week’s spellings are all words which have double consonants after a short vowel sound – this is an important, and common, spelling rule (think of the difference between hoping and hopping, for example).
The spellings will be tested on Friday 11 May.
| 1. | cunning |
| 2. | quitting |
| 3. | button |
| 4. | battle |
| 5. | trigger |
| 6. | annoy |
| 7. | landlubber |
| 8. | assemble |
| 9. | different |
| 10. | accommodating |
