Year 6 Spelling

14 October 2016

This week, we’re going to recap some old spelling rules which we learnt many years ago as people are making silly errors in their writing. Here are some key spelling rules. In your book, practise adding suffixes to words (and not just simple ones) and there will be a test next week. The example words below are not a spelling list; the words tested will require these rules to be applied. Remember, you need to think about how to spell the root word (eg hurry) before you then think about how to change it for adding the suffix (change the y to an i).

drop the y for an i

• countries
• diaries
• hurried

double up for a short vowel sound

• accommodate
• immediately
• embarrass

drop the e

• advising
• evaporating
• practising

i before e, except after c

• ceiling
• receive
• believe

07 October 2016

This week’s spellings lead on from our spelling activity from last week. We’re adding suffixes to words ending in …fer.

On Friday, your child will be tested on ten of these spellings but needs to know when to double the ‘r’ and when to just have one when a suffix is added.

All children should be practising their spellings in their homework book using the techniques we’ve discussed in class.

On Thursday 13 October, children should have spelling practice in their homework book for us to look at; they will then be tested on Friday 14 October.

30 September 2016

This week, your spelling activity is to explore what happens to the following words when you add a suffix. See how many suffixes you can add and find out what it does to the spelling – it’s not always the same pattern.

• refer
• transfer
• prefer

Don’t forget, the research you do and words you find must be recorded in your homework book on your spellings page.

23 September 2016

Our spelling list leads on from the spelling activity last week. All of the spellings have -ible or -able endings. For Friday’s test, I’ll test some of these words but will also test words from their word families or even words that have the same spelling pattern but weren’t on the spelling list.

All children should be practising their spellings in their homework book using the techniques we’ve discussed in class.

• tolerable
• edible
• admirable
• horrible
• sensible
• breakable
• applicable
• incredible
• considerable
• terrible

16 September 2016

This week’s spelling activity focuses on words ending in ‘-ible‘ and ‘-able‘ and being able to recognise which one to use.

The children need to find out words with these endings and create the word families for them.

adorable – adorably – adoration – adore – adored – adoring

There will be not test on Friday 23 September as we’ll be learning about these words throughout the week. Next week, the children will be given a list of words with these spelling patterns and they’ll be tested on them on Friday 30 September.

09 September 2016

This week’s spellings have been chosen by the children from a list of spellings they should know already. We’ve been working on practising their chosen spellings throughout the week and used all sorts of techniques to help us to learn them.

In their homework books, the children should show that they’re using these techniques in order to learn their spellings and they will be tested on ten of them in class on Friday by a friend (as we’ve all got different ones).

Don’t forget, homework books will be collected in on Thursday so, if you want to practise on Thursday evening, make sure you write them down!

Have a happy and healthy holiday

It’s the summer holidays at last, so there are no homework or spelling activities. Enjoy the holidays instead!

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15 July 2016

This week’s spellings are all individualised. Children have looked back through their test books and chosen ten words that they have previously spelled incorrectly. Each child has identified these words because they struggle to spell them or don’t feel confident when trying to use these words in their writing.

Children should learn their words in preparation for their final spelling test on Thursday 21 July.

08 July 2016

Gobblefunk words

To promote the big read and celebrate the work of Roald Dahl, this week’s spellings are all words found in his books.

Children should learn how to spell these words in preparation for their final spelling test on Friday 15 July.

Although these are made-up words, your child be practising the skill of learning new words – a vital life skill. There are lots of rules in these words which apply to spelling real or made-up words. (‘Squibbling’, for example, is probably a verb, ‘to squibble’, and uses two key rules: ‘drop the e for i n g‘ and the always important ‘double up for short vowel sounds’.)

24 June 2016