Year 6 Spelling

It’s Christmas…

Posted on Thursday 20 December 2012 by Mr Roundtree

…so enjoy the break.

We don’t give homework or spellings and tables to learn during holidays.  Instead, we hope you all enjoy the break and spend some fabulously festive family time, whether it’s playing board games, enjoying a book or two or simply relaxing in front of the telly for a treat.

07 December 2012

Posted on Monday 10 December 2012 by

Spellings this week are all ly words – ‘ly’ is a consonant suffix which usually makes the words adverbs.  Consonant suffixes can be added without changing the base word, except for words ending in y which changes to i.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 December.

  • secretive > secretively
  • joking > jokingly
  • unfortunate > unfortunately
  • strange > strangely
  • normal > normally
  • real > really
  • total > totally
  • happy > happily
  • speedy > speedily

 

16 November 2012

Posted on Friday 16 November 2012 by

This week we are spelling words with plurals. The children have to find twelve different spellings to fit the following rules.

Most nouns just add an s:

  • envelope   envelopes

Many nouns ending with a consonant and a y: drop the y for an i, then add es:

  • family   families

Nouns ending in a ‘s’ or other soft sound (ss, ch, x): add an es:

  • dress   dresses
  • relax   relaxes
  • crutch   crutches

Children will be tested on their twelve individual spelling and other words that have the same rule on Friday 23 November.

 

09 November 2012

Posted on Friday 09 November 2012 by

This week we are learning to spell words with double letters. Spellings will be tested on Friday 16 November.

A B
embarrassment

millennium

occurrence

possession

occasionally

questionnaire

dissipate

incidentally

magically

millionaire

balloon

dumbbell

misspell

broccoli

occasionally

coolly

difference

generally

magically

success

12 October 2012

Posted on Friday 12 October 2012 by

This week, the children are focussing on learning to spell and use the correct homophone at the right time and in the right context.

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. For example:

where were we’re
through threw

Children have been given a list of commonly misused homophones to learn, including the correct meaning. They will be tested on the spelling and, as importantly, the meaning of these words.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 19 October.

05 October 2012

Posted on Friday 05 October 2012 by

In order to build the children’s vocabulary, this week we are focusing on spelling wow words

  • ecstatic
  • despondent
  • devastated
  • monstrous
  • petrified
  • terrified
  • morose
  • delighted
  • disgruntled

Your child will also be tested on the meanings of the word. He / she will be tested on Friday 12 October 2012.

28 September 2012

Posted on Friday 28 September 2012 by

This week the children are focussing on spelling words with suffixes ant or ation. Spellings will be tested on Friday 05 October.

Group A Group B
pronunciationprotection

imitation

consideration

separation

ventilation

imagination

variation

deprivation

termination

hesitantobservant

dependant

contestant

assistant

occupant

tolerant

disinfectant

significant

inhabitant

21 September 2012

Posted on Friday 21 September 2012 by

This week, the children are focusing on spelling words with silent letters. Spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September.

Group A Group B
generally

guardian

advantage

pneumonia

foreign

knowledge

average

solemn

scissors

depot

average

primary

Wednesday

January

February

scissors

naturally

mineral

unnatural

ledge

14 September 2012

Posted on Friday 14 September 2012 by

Spellings this week are words with the suffix ful. Spellings will be tested on Friday 21 September.

A B
beautifulhelpful

hopeful

powerful

wonderful

colourful

forceful

+3
more to fit the rule

awfultuneful

useful

skilful

careful

beautiful

helpful

+3
more to fit the rule

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

07 September 2012

Posted on Friday 07 September 2012 by Mrs Weekes

This week’s spellings are looking at regular verb endings.  There are 15 spellings this week because they are regular words that the children are familiar with.

Spellings: Regular verb endings 07.09.12

cooks cooked cooking
plays played playing
invents invented inventing
jumps jumped jumping
looks looked looking