Year 5 & 6 Spelling

01 February 2019

Posted on Sunday 03 February 2019 by Mr Catherall

This week, our spellings focus on some tricky words. These words don’t really follow a rule so we just need to learn them. Children should use the strategies in the back of their homework book to practise these words in their homework books.

Children will be tested on these words on Friday 08 February 2019.

bruise                          rhythm

yacht                           muscle

vehicle                         queue

stomach                      language

25 January 2019

Posted on Friday 25 January 2019 by Mr Catherall

Our spellings this week have focussed on the use of suffixes. Suffixes are added to the end of a root word to alter its meaning. For example, to enjoy (verb) can become enjoyment (abstract noun). This week, children should learn the words in the list below ahead of a spelling test on Friday 01 February 2019.

immediately

happiness

successful

accommodating

government

fascinating

excitable

strengthen

11 January 2019

Posted on Friday 11 January 2019 by Mr Catherall

Our spellings this week focus on the use of prefixes. Prefixes are added to the start of a root word to change its meaning. For example, interested could have the opposite meaning by adding the prefix ununinterested. This week, children will not be given a list of words to learn but should practise using the prefixes below to change the meaning of a root word. During our weekly spelling test, children will be asked to use these prefixes correctly in different contexts. Children will have a spelling test on Friday 18 January 2018.

un (eg unusual)

mis (eg misunderstand)

dis (disinterested)

re (eg reorganise)

30 November 2018

Posted on Sunday 02 December 2018 by Mr Catherall

Our spellings this week focus on when we use the suffix  -ably or -ibly. Last week, children explored the rule. This week, children have a list of words to learn ahead of a spelling test on Friday 07 December 2018.

  • incredibly
  • sensibly
  • reliably
  • respectably
  • agreeably
  • enviably
  • undeniably
  • responsibly

19 October 2018

Posted on Friday 19 October 2018 by Mrs Lake

Your spelling rule this week is using apostrophes for omission.

eg should not = shouldn’t

Write a list of contractions and the words before omission.

12 October 2018

Posted on Friday 12 October 2018 by Mrs Lake

Your spelling rule this week is pluralising words ending in a y. The rule is drop the y for an i and add es.

Pluralise these words:

  • activity
  • library
  • story
  • variety
  • beauty
  • try
  • cry
  • fly
  • history
  • baby
  • carry
  • cherry

Create a nonsense story including as many of these pluralised words as possible.

05 October 2018

Posted on Friday 05 October 2018 by Mrs Lake

This week’s list of spellings are all homophones. Can you draw pictures or diagrams to illustrate the different meanings in a set of homophones? For the test, children will be given the word in a sentence.

weather

whether

you’re

your

here

hear

are

our

28 September 2018

Posted on Friday 28 September 2018 by Mrs Lake

This week’s list of spellings are all homophones – words that mean different things but sound the same.

Some of these homophones have been picked up as common errors in children’s writing. For the test, children will be given the word in a sentence. At home, practise each spelling by writing them in sentences. Think about the meaning of each homophone.

 

21 September 2018

Posted on Friday 21 September 2018 by Mrs Lake

This week’s list of spellings to learn words end in ‘-ible’ and ‘-able’. Use the list of spellings to make a word search. Children will be tested on some of the words listed below and other words that end in ‘-ible’ and ‘-able’.

  • applicable
  • breakable
  • forcible
  • sensible
  • fashionable
  • comfortable
  • horrible
  • terrible
  • visible

14 September 2018

Posted on Saturday 15 September 2018 by Mrs Lake

This week’s list of spellings are words with ‘silent’ letters. Use the spelling strategies stuck in your homework book to learn your spellings. These words have come from the Year 5 and 6 statutory spelling list. How many other words can you think of with silent letters?

  • environment
  • temperature
  • dictionary
  • twelfth
  • stomach
  • autumn
  • muscle
  • rhythm
  • vehicle