This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- homophones: draught, draft, dissent, descent, proceed, precede, wary, weary
- applying rules: prefixes and suffixes
- spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg bruise, guarantee, vehicle)
- spelling patterns: unusual patterns (eg yacht, immediately)
- etymology: phone, micro, tele, graph, auto, geo
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| draught | bruise | muscle | language | thorough |
| draft | bargain | programme | misbehave | microwave |
| amateur | weary | rhyme | lightning | miscommunicate |
| ancient | wary | marvellous | reconsider | vehicle |
| disbelieve | environment | precede | rhythm | telephone |
| awkward | foreign | proceed | shoulder | deescalate |
| committee | mischievous | parliament | descent | stomach |
| community | autograph | submarine | decent | yacht |