Spellings

We will have a spelling test every Friday morning. Please ensure you are working on these at home during the week.

 

WB: 11.9.23

Group 1

LO – Words with the long /eI / sound spelt with ei

eight, eighth, eighty, weight, neighbour, vein, veil, beige, sleigh, freight.

 

Group 2

LO - The sounds /f/ and /s/, spelt ‘ff’ and ‘ss’

off, puff, sniff, miss, hiss, less, if, us, bus, yes

 

WB: 18.9.23

Group 1

LO - Words with the long /eI / sound spelt with ey

hey, they, obey, grey, prey, whey, survey, convey, disobey, purvey

 

Group 2

LO - The sounds /l/ and /k/, /z/ spelt ‘ll’, ‘zz’ and ‘ck’

well, pull, full, wall, buzz, fizz, back, stick, flick, pal

 

 

WB: 25.9.23

Group 1

LO - Words with the long /eI/ sound spelt with ai

straight, campaign, contain, brain, faint, waist, claim, praise, complaint, afraid

 

Group 2

LO - Adding the endings –ing, –ed and –er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word

hunting, hunted, hunter, buzzing, buzzed, buzzer, jumping, jumped, jumper, cracker

 

WB: 2.10.23

Group 1

LO - Words with / /sound spelt with ear

earth, early, learn, heard, earn, pearl, search, unearth, earl, rehearse

 

Group 2

LO - The sound spelt n before g ‘ng’. The sound spelt n before k ‘nk’

bank, think, honk, sunk, wink, bunk, sing, string, hang, long

 

WB: 9.10.23

Group 1

LO - Homophones & near homophones

here, hear, heel, heal, main, mane, mail, male, knot, not

 

Group 2

LO - The sound /ch/ spelt ‘ch’. The sound /ch/ spelt –‘tch’

chip, chick, catch, fetch, kitchen, notch, hutch, rich, much, such

 

WB: 16.10.23

Group 1

LO - Homophones & near homophones

berry, bury, brake, break, meet, meat, ball, bawl, fair, fare

 

Group 2

LO - The sound v The /v/ sound at the end of words spelt with ‘ve’

van, vet, visit, have, live, give, love, glove, above, nerve

 

WB: 30.10.23

Group 1

 

LO – Creating adverbs using the suffix –ly (no change to root word)

kindly, quickly, safely, rudely, sweetly, strongly, bravely, secretly, finally, usually

 

Group 2

 

LO - The diagraphs ‘ai’ and ‘oi’ are hardly ever used at the end of English words.

 

rain, wait, train, paid, afraid, oil, join, coin, point, soil

 

WB: 6.11.23

 

Group 1

 

LO – Creating adverbs using the suffix –ly (root word ends in ‘y’ with more than one syllable)

Happily, angrily, lazily, easily, busily, greedily, messily, wearily, cheekily, clumsily

 

Group 2

 

LO - The diagraphs ‘ay’ and ‘oy’ are used for thise sounds at the end of words and at the end of syllables

 

play, way, stay, today, says, boy, toy, enjoy, annoy. royal

 

13.11.23

LO - Creating adverbs using the suffix 'ly' (root word ends in 'le') 

Group 1

 

gently   simply   humbly   nobly  horribly   terribly   possibly   incredibly   comfortably   probably

 

Group 2

 

goal   coach   own   snow   grow   toe   goes   go   no   so

 

20.11.23

Group 1

Creating adverbs using the suffix –ly (root word ends in ‘ic’ or ‘al’

 

Basically    Frantically    Dramatically    Magically    Tragically    Comically    Actually    Accidentally    Occasionally    Eventually

 

Group 2

The sound /rr/ spelt ‘e’ and with the vowel diagraph ‘ee’

 

Me    She    We    Be    He   See    Tree    Green    Meet    Week

 

27.11.23

Group 1

Creating adverbs using the suffix –ly (exceptions to the rules)

Truly    Duly    Wholly    Fully    Daily    Publicly    Dryly    Slyly    Shyly    Coyly

 

Group 2

The vowel diagraph ‘ea’

 

Sea    Dream    Meat    Each    Scream    Read    Head    Bread    Meant    Instead

 

4.12.23

Group 1

 

Statutory Spelling Challenge Words

 

believe   appear   often   group   breath   continue   arrive   women   describe   height

 

Group 2

 

Common Exception Words

 

Find   mind   behind   old   cold   gold   hold   told   every   everybody

 

11.12.24

Group 1 and 2

Essentail words for the coming weeks

 

Bells   Candle   Carols   Charity   Crackers   Donkey   Elf    Family   Icicle   Jolly

 

 

 

Spellings Spring 2023/24

8.1.24

Group 1

Words with short /i/ sound spelt with ‘y

myth gym Egypt pyramid mystery hymn system symbol lyric typical

 

Group 2

Adding –ed, -er and –est to a word ending in –y with a consonant before it

Copier   copied   happier   happiest   cried   replied   tried   dried   driest   funnier

 

15.1.24

Group 1

Adding suffixes beginning with a vowel (er/ed/ing) to words with more than one syllable (unstressed last syllable - DO NOT double the final consonant)

gardener gardening limited limiting offering offered benefited benefiting focused focusing

 

Group 2

Adding –ing to a word ending in –y with a consonant before it

Copying   crying   replying   marrying   carrying   carrying   flying   trying   drying   skiing   taxiing

 

22.1.24

Group 1

Adding suffixes beginning with a vowel (er/ed/en/ing) to words with more than one syllable (stressed last syllable - double the final consonant)

forgetting forgotten beginning beginner preferred preferring occurred occurring forbidden committed

 

Group 2

Adding –ing, -ed, -er, -est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it

Hiking   hiked   hiker   nicer   nicest   shiny   being   shining   scary   scaring

 

29.1.24

Group 1

Creating negative meanings using prefix mis

misspell mislead mistreat misbehave mistrust misprint misuse misplace misheard misread

 

Group 2

Adding –ing, -ed, -er, -est and –y to words of one syllable in a single consonant after a single vowel

Patting   patted   humming   hummed   dropping   dropped   sadder   saddest   runner   runny

 

5.2.24

Group 1

Creating negative meanings using prefix dis

dislike disobey discolour discover disappear dishonest disallow disbelieve disapprove discontinue

 

Group 2

The sound /or/ spelt ‘a’ before l or ll

all   ball   call   walk   talk   always   small   wall   fall   altogether

 

12.2.24

Group 1

Words with a /k/ sound spelt with ‘ch’

scheme chorus echo character ache chaos stomach chemistry orchestra technology

 

Group 2

Common Exception Words

Fast   last   father   class   grass   pass   plant   path   bath   people

 

 

 

 

 

 

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26.2.24

Group 1

Homophones & Near Homophones

grate great grown groan plain plane peace piece rain reign

 

Group 2

The sound /u/ spelt with ‘o’

Other   mother   brother   nothing   Monday   money   cover   honey   discover   wonder

 

4.3.24

Group 1

Homophones & Near Homophones

scent sent vain vein rode road steel steal waist waste

 

Group 2

The sound /ee/ spelt with ‘-ey’

Key   donkey   monkey   chimney   valley   trolley   turkey   hockey   parsley   journey

 

11.3.24

Group 1

Adding the prefix bi- (meaning ‘two’ or ‘twice’) and Adding the prefix re- (meaning ‘again’ or back’)

bicycle biplane bisect bilingual biannual reappear redecorate reapply repay rebuild

 

Group 2

The /o/ sound spelt with ‘a’ after w and qu

Want   waych   wander   quantity   squash   quality   squabble   squad   quad   quarrel

 

 

18.3.24

Group 1

Words ending in the /g/ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the /k/ sound spelt ‘que’

league plague rogue vague fatigue unique antique mosque cheque technique

 

Group 2

The stressed /er/ spelt with ‘or’ after w and the sound /or/ spelt ‘ar’ after w

Word   work   worm   world   worth   worst   war   warm   towards   ward

 

25.3.24

Group 1

Words with a /sh/ sound spelt with ‘ch’

chef chalet machine brochure crochet ricochet parachute moustache champagne chute

 

Group 2

The sound /zh/ spelt ‘s’

Television   treasure   usual   division   vision   pleasure   measure   occasion   usually   leisure

 

 

SUMMER TERM SPELLINGS

8.4.24

Group 1

 

Words ending in -ary

 

Library   February   dictionary   boundary   salary   summary   primary   secondary   ordinary necessary

 

Group 2

 

Suffixes –ment, -ness and -ful

 

enjoyment   sadness   careful   playful   plainness   argument  merriment   happiness   plentiful   cheerful