Spelling

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!

12 March 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

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

05 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.

Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?

 e.g. The root word of completely is complete.

 Spelling list:

• accidentally
• completely
• closely
• frantically
• particularly
• occasionally
• separately
• basically
• probably
• surprisingly

05 March 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

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

Week beginning 11 January 2021

This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.

11 December 2020

This week, we’d like children to learn how to spell the plural of a noun (plural means more than one). In the English language, there are a few ways to this. We’ll be focussing on adding s, es or ies. We’d like children to be confident spelling these root words and their plural forms.

Answer(s)                             century(ies)                                         group(s)                                bicycle(s)

Address(es)                          bus(es)                                                church(es)                            jelly(ies)

Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 18 December 2020.

This week, we have been focusing on homophones, in preparation for a test on Thursday 17 December 2020.

Isle

aisle

aloud

allowed

heard

herd

affect

effect

11 December 2020

Use last week’s spellings and choose something from the ideas below to write them.

Year 1

• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says

Year 2

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