20 May 2020
This week, we’ve been practising spelling homophones. These are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
The homophones we’d like you to practise this week are:
peace, piece, main, mane, fair, fare
These will be tested on Friday 27th May 2022. Good luck!
12 May 2022
Practise writing the following words with the prefixes ‘mis’ and ‘re’ at the start. The words may work with both prefixes, one prefix or neither. For example, both misinterpret and reinterpret would work. Misimagine would not. Your words are:
interpret, consider, believes, address, guided, imagine, position, remember, group, understood
These will be tested on Friday 20th May.
Good luck!
29 April 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise spelling words with the ‘ch’ grapheme that has a ‘k’ phoneme (sound).
Here are your words:
stomach
ache
mechanic
chemistry
character
echo
scheme
anchor
chaos
choir
These will be tested next Friday 6th May.
Good luck!
25 March 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise adding the suffixes below to these root words.
build/ing/er
heart/less
weight/less
care/ful/less/ed/ing/er
busy/er/est/ing
natural/ly
separate/ly/ed/ing
clumsy/er/est/ly
Can you spot the suffixes that don’t work on your homework sheet? For example, heart/ness wouldn’t work! Golden tickets for those who can find them!
18 March 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise adding the suffix ‘ly’ to these words:
– accidental
– complete
– famous
– natural
– occasional
– ordinary
– happy
– basic
These will be tested on Friday 25th March. Good luck!
11 March 2022
Practise adding the ‘ful’ and ‘less’ suffixes to the following words.
thought
care
harm
use
hope
rest
fear
doubt
These will be tested on Friday 18th March. Good luck!
04 March 2022
Please find this week’s spellings below:
- library
- building
- century
- circle
- experiment
- February
- group
- question
Ask your child why February has a capital letter!
These will be tested on Friday 11th March.
Good luck!
04 February 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise spelling words with the prefixes (tele) and (auto).
automatic
autobiography
autograph
automotive
television
telegraph
teleport
telescope
28 January 2022
This week’s spellings are focussed on the prefixes ‘dis’ and ‘un’. A prefix is a group of letters added to the start of a word and can change its meaning. For example, the prefix ‘un’ can change the word reliable to unreliable.
Practise spelling the following words ready for a test on Friday 4th February.
uncertain, disadvantage, dispossess, unavoidable, disobey, unaware, unnatural, undecided
21 January 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise spelling these contractions.
A contraction is two words that have been contracted into one word. A contraction is a less formal way of writing. For example, you are would become you’re.
The words for you to practise are:
shouldn’t (should not), couldn’t (could not), won’t (will not), they’ll (they will), you’ll (you will), I’d (I had), you’re (you are), they’re (they are)
These words will be tested on Friday 28th January. Good luck!
