Year 5 Spelling

18 September 2015

This week’s spellings use the spelling part ‘ough’ – this week, the ‘ough’ is pronounced in different ways. There are some tricky words to remember as well. We’re focusing on the 8 times table. Both will be tested on Friday 25 September.

• though
• although
• dough
• through
• thorough
• borough
• plough

…And here are the tricky words.

• achieve
• amateur
• ancient

11 September 2015

Children have been given a new Learning List book, which gives lots of great tips for learning spellings as well as being designed to allow children to practise independently.

This week’s spellings are all words that include ough:

thought

bought

ought

nought

brought

ought

rough

tough

enough

cough

10 July 2015

The spellings this week are a little different. The children won’t know the spelling list until the test. However, they have been told that the words will be from the three main spelling rules we talk about:

• drop the e for ing
• double up for short vowel sounds
• drop the y for an i

Children should look back at their learning lists for spelling lists featuring these rules.

03 July 2015

This week in Year 5, there are no spellings to learn.

Next week, we’ll be carrying out short progress tests to help inform my end of year assessments.  These will include a spelling test.

26 June 2015

The spellings this week are all homophones (words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings). The words are listed in pairs and children may be tested on any of the words. As the spellings sound the same, they will need to understand the context that the word is read in.

Group 2 should learn all of the words.

Group 1 do not have to (but are encouraged) to learn the bold words.

19 June 2015

The spellings this week are all words with silent letters. The silent letter in each word is in bold.

12 June 2015

All the spellings this week contain the letter string ough. It’s important to practise reading these words as well as writing them down as there are a variety of sounds that the ough words can make.

The sound which the ough word make are shown in bold in the list eg ‘uff‘.

05 June 2015

The spellings this week are all words where the ‘i before e except after c’ rule applies. You’re in luck this week because there aren’t many of them!

15 May 2015

This is the third spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs end in a y. For the present and past tense forms, you need to drop the y for an I and then add es  for present tense or ed for past tense.

As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

Infinitive – I cry.

Present – She cries

Past – I cried

Continuous – I was crying.  I am crying.

Group 1 

Group 2

08 May 2015

This is the second spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs contain a long vowel sound and end in e. This e is dropped when it’s changed to the continuous form. As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

• Infinitive – I like to shop.
• Present – She shops very often.
• Past – She shopped all day long.
• Continuous – She was shopping.   She is shopping.          

Group 1 

Group 2