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.
| desert | silence | unavailable | coordinate | hindrance |
| dessert | sufficient | apparent | unnecessary | know |
| unavailable | scissors | attendance | compliment | frequent |
| convenience | stationary | cooperate | complement | knock |
| knight | stationery | re-enter | reinvent | castle |
| innocence | doubt | prophet | nuisance | principle |
| excellence | impossible | profit | existence | principal |
| illegal | unconscious | gnaw | thumb | inconvenient |
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.
| desert | silence | unavailable | coordinate | hindrance |
| dessert | sufficient | apparent | unnecessary | know |
| unavailable | scissors | attendance | compliment | frequent |
| convenience | stationary | cooperate | complement | knock |
| knight | stationery | re-enter | reinvent | castle |
| innocence | doubt | prophet | nuisance | principle |
| excellence | impossible | profit | existence | principal |
| illegal | unconscious | gnaw | thumb | inconvenient |
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.
| attaches | restaurant’s | aloud | terrible | thought |
| I’ll | government’s | allowed | categories | co-own |
| isle | bargains | tough | co-operate | yacht’s |
| aisle | re-invent | consciousness | dictionaries | re-tell |
| aggressively | thorough | consciously | soldier’s | opportunities |
| aggressiveness | reliable | bruises | desperately | affect |
| reversible | apparently | enjoyable | communities | effect |
| opportunities | possible | enough | valuable | although |
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.
| there | their | they’re | inactive | accommodate |
| occur/ing/ed | can’t | won’t | category | busy |
| opportunity | advice | advise | practice | practise |
| naughty | dictionary | witch | which | according |
| irregular | embarrass | determine/ing/ed | century | ordinary |
| curiosity | library | identity | achieve/ed/ing | aggressive |
| disappear | appreciate | device | devise | cemetery |
| queue/ing/ed | unavoidable | immediately | impossible | variety |
Spellings for the final half-term
Spelling list term 3.1
Spellings term 2.2
