Year 5 Spelling

29 April 2016

This week’s spellings focus on the double up rule and will be tested on Friday 6 May.

• recommend
• immediately
• community
• communicate
• excellent
• embarrass
• opposite
• accompany
• correspond
• aggressive

It’s important to practise spellings regularly so that they are learnt and not just remembered for a week in order to score well in a test. We’ve created lots of different ways to practise our spellings in class that can be done at home and, don’t forget, we now have Spellodrome to use at home. Any feedback on this resource would be greatly appreciated.

22 April 2016

This week’s spellings will cover two different areas. Our main spelling list focusses on plurals and the different rules we need to follow when adding ‘s’. However, the children will be asked to write a sentence for their test on Friday which will include a homophone that they’ll be required to spell correctly.

• the laboratory – 10 laboratories
• one photocopy – 6 photocopies
• my memory – lots of memories
• large chimney – 2 large chimneys
• the display – 5 displays
• nice accessory – multiple accessories
• one wolf – a pack of wolves
• a knife – sharp knives
• a cliff – some cliffs
• delicious loaf – tasty loaves

We’ve discussed homophones throughout the week, particularly those we often get wrong: their, there, they’re; of, off; here, hear; to, two, too. See how many you can think of and have fun with it. We managed to think of a group of four homophones; can you? How many lists of three can you come up with? Time yourselves and see who can write the greatest number of pairs of homophones in 30 seconds.

24 March 2016

This week’s spellings will test how well children are retaining information they are learning by focussing on spellings covered across the year so far.

There have been many different spelling rules and patterns explored up to this point in the year. Next week’s test will be from the spelling lists learnt in the first half term (07.09.15 – 23.10.16). Children should look over these lists and note the patterns we learnt about, picking out words they think they found most tricky at the time.

Ten spellings from this list will be tested as children are not expected to learn spelling simply for a test but for long term use of these words.

18 March 2016

Spellings this week are not one specific list. The children have gone through their English book and picked out words they have spelt incorrectly in the past in order to learn these and not make the same mistake again.

It’s best if ten minutes of each day is given to practising spellings and we’ve looked at lots of different ways in which we can practise in class.

• word shapes
• word pyramids
• missing vowels
• create a crossword
• make it into a wordsearch
• good old look, write, cover, check.

These spellings will be tested on Thursday 24 March.

11 March 2016

04 March 2016

This week’s spellings all require ‘ed’ to be added for past tense and are words that we often make mistakes with in class (for example, by missing the ‘e’).

These must be practised in your red spelling book ready to be tested on Friday 11 March.

26 February 2016

This week’s spelling are a little different. I won’t be sending a list of spelling for the children to learn but a spelling rule to practise instead:

double up for a short vowel sound

At home, see if you and other members of your family can think of words that follow this rule and practise these. Remember the different ways we’ve used to practise spelling:

• pyramid spelling
• word shapes
• missing letters

There will be a test on Friday and all of the words tested will follow the double up rule.

05 February 2016

This week’s spelling are, again, all unrelated words. Just learn them, please!

• forty
• frequently
• government (watch the silent n – it helps to think about the verb to govern and the noun governors)
• guarantee (watch the silent u!)
• harass
• hindrance
• identity
• immediately

Children will also be tested on some spellings that they have previously learnt.

29 January 2016

This week’s spellings don’t follow any rule – they’re just ones to learn! As always, we’ll expect children to be able to use them in sentences, so they should practise this.

1. equip – equipment – equipped
2. especially
3. exaggerate
4. excellent
5. existence
6. explanation
7. familiar
8. foreign

We will also test some from previous lists, so please don’t forget to always revise.

22 January 2016

This week, all of our words are ones which have an ‘…able‘ ending, or words which come from the same root. They are written as the verb, then the adjective and, sometimes, as the adverb, too.