Spellings 13.01.2023
Next week, we will be looking at adding the prefixes un and dis to change the meaning of a root word.
unkind
uncertain
unemployed
unclear
unfriendly
unstable
unclear
disappear
discontinue
disbelief
Spellings 13.01.21
What a great start to the year we’ve had with our spellings. Thank you for practicing these at home.
We continue with our common exception words. Our spellings for the next week will be: child, children, Christmas, class, climb, clothes, could, cold, door, even.
Look out for our super spelling strategy on the homework sheet!
13.01.23 Spellings
This week, we’ve been adding suffixes to root words. These have included –ent, -ence, -ant and –ance.
Please learn the following words for a test on Friday 20 th January.
assistance
tolerant
hesitant
attendance
abundant
violence
dependent
innocence
confidence
Help at home:
See if your child can identify the root word for each of these words, for example:
The root word of assistance is to assist.
Spellings 9th January 2022
This week’s spellings are going to be very useful to us as they are some of the time connectives we will use in our recount writing.
They will be tested on Friday 13th February.
first
meanwhile
suddenly
finally
morning
afternoon
o’clock
after
Year 5/6 Spellings 09.01.23
We have been learning regularly about homophones. Learn these words for a test on Friday 13th January. We recommend putting these words into sentences so that you understand the meaning of each word.
desert
dessert
stationary
stationery
complement
compliment
principle
principal
Help at home
To aid your child, you could try the following techniques to help learn spellings at home:
look, say, cover, write, check
syllable chunking
word pyramids
06.01.23
This half term, we will continue to have new spellings every two weeks. There will be 5 new spellings to learn as well as 5 spellings from the Autumn term to re-visit. Please practise ready for a spelling test on Friday 20 January.
On the first week, use the look, say, cover, write, check method.
New spellings:
- school
- she
- so
- some
- the
Please re-visit and practise the below spellings from the Autumn term:
- are
- ask
- be
- by
- come
Spellings
Happy New Year!
I hope you are well rested and ready to learn some more spelling words! This week, we will be starting to learn our common exception words. These are words that we use often, but do not follow typical phonetic patterns we know.
Currently, we are going to learn our spellings on a weekly cycle. This is different to the fortnightly cycle we were following.
Our spelling words are: after, again, any, bath, beautiful, because, behind, both, break, busy.
You can find some ideas for super spelling strategies on the homework sheet. This comes home every Friday in your child’s bag.
Spellings 09.12.22
Addresses
Answers
Centuries
Potatoes
Boxes
Churches
Wolves
Calves
Friday 2nd December 2022
This week, please practise words where we use the sound ‘oo’. This sound can be spelled in several different ways:
02 December 2022
Below are the new spellings for the next two weeks. On the first week, use the look, say, cover, write, check method.
- push
- put
- said
- saw
- says