Year 5 & 6 Spelling

Term 1.1 spellings up to half-term

Over the next two weeks, we will be focussing on:

adding the suffix -ing correctly

These spellings will remain the same for homework for the final two weeks before half-term. We will check progress on these on Friday 16th October and Friday 23rd October.

Term 1.1 spellings weeks 4-5

For the next two weeks, we are continuing with our rule of

doubling up for short vowel sounds

The list of spellings to learn for homework are below. This list will remain the same over the next two weeks, and we will check progress on these each Friday (2nd October, 9th October).

aggressive

accommodate

embarrass

immediate

necessary

opportunity

programme

recommend

success

Term 1.1 spellings weeks 1-3

For the first few weeks, we are focussing on:

doubling up for a short vowel sound

dropping the y for an i

As the first week began on Wednesday, we will keep the following list of homework spellings the same for three weeks. This gives the children two full weeks of practise! We will check spelling progress on Friday 11th October and Friday 18th October.

beginning

occurring

committed

copied

happiest

replied

secretary

immediately

committee

Spelling 2.2

Spring 2.1 spellings

Half-term 1

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• spelling patterns: ant/ance, ent/ence
• adding prefixes: co and re
• adding prefixes: un, dis, im, in, ir, il
• apostrophes for contraction and possession
• spelling patterns: silent letters

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Spelling 1.2

Spellings term 1.1

Year 5/6 Spelling – Half Term 3

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• spelling patterns: ant/ance, ent/ence
• adding prefixes: co and re
• adding prefixes: un, dis, im, in, ir, il
• apostrophes for contraction and possession
• spelling patterns: silent letters

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Year 5/6 Spelling – Half Term 2

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• plurals (more than one noun)
• ough words
• suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘’success to ‘successful’ or ‘successfully’
• ible and able words
• apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)
• more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently
• adding the prefixes ‘co’ and ‘re’ using a hyphen

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Year 5/6 Spelling – Half Term 1

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
• ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
• ‘drop the y for an i’
• using apostrophes for contraction (eg can’t, won’t)
• adding the suffixes ed, ing, er, est
• adding the prefixes un, dis, im, in, ir, il

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.