Spelling

10 May 2021

Next week, we’ll be recapping our learning about adding suffixes. Complete these activities.

07 May 2021

We are continuing working on Common Exception Words (words that don’t follow the usual spelling rules).

Year 1

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday

Year 2

• half
• hold
• hour
• improve
• kind
• last
• many
• mind
• money
• most

29 April 2021

Next week, we’re learning about apostrophes for possession. There isn’t a list of words to learn. Instead, your child has a task to complete.

23 April 2021

The spellings this week all contain the or phoneme. This phoneme can be spelled in lots of different ways. We’re focusing on or, aw, au, augh, ough.

caught

forward

history

important

naughty

ordinary

quarter

thought

awful

drawn

23 / 30 April 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words (common words that don’t follow the usual spelling rules).

Year 1

• was
• where
• we
• you
• were
• your

Year 2

• every
• everybody
• eye
• father
• fast
• find
• floor
• gold
• grass
• great

26 March 2021

This week, we are learning about words that end in sure. Here is the list of words that you need to learn.

treasure

pleasure

measure

enclosure

closure

assure

reassure

leisure

pressure

26 March 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).

Year 1

• there
• their
• they
• to
• today

Year 2

• child
• children
• Christmas
• class
• climb
• clothes
• cold
• could
• door
• even

19 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.

We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?

Watch out for words that don’t make sense! There is space to add four of your own root words.

19 March 2021

Use last week’s spellings and write them showing ascenders (tall letters) and descenders (letters that go below the line), like this –

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

• after
• because
• again
• behind
• any
• both
• bath
• break
• beautiful
• busy

12 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).

Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!