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
Spellings for this half-term
Spellings this half-term
Spellings for the first half term
Below are the 40 spellings for this half term. Please continue to learn these at home. There will be a test every Friday on 8 random words from the list. If your child is finding it difficult to learn the words, have a look at our Super Spelling Strategy document on the school website – it’s got some great ideas!
Spellings 03.03.2023
Next week, we’ll be adding the suffix –fer. For some ideas of how to make learning your spellings fun,
see our ‘Super Spelling Strategies’ guide on the website.
Learn these words by Friday 10th March.
reference
referred
referral
preference
preferred
transferring
offering
offered