Year 5 and 6 Spelling Coverage - Summer 1
Below are a list of spelling rules, and examples, that Year 5 and 6 will be taught each week. These are in line with the National Curriculum Programme of Study and alongside our Whole School Phonics and Spelling Programme.
Your child's teacher will teach the rule each week and allow time to practise in school - words to learn will then be spent home each week, following the specific taught rule.
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WB 19/4/2021 | Words ending with: ible, able, ibly, ably forcible, forcibly, adorable, adorably | Words with unstressed vowels accommodate bruise, category, cemetery, definite |
WB 26/4/2021 | Use of hyphen: co-, re- co-ordinate, co-operate, re-enter
| Words with unstressed vowels desperate, dictionary, embarrass, environment, exaggerate, |
WB 3/5/2021 | Words with double consonants accommodate, accompany, according, aggressive, apparent, appreciate, attached, committee, communicate | Words with unstressed vowels marvellous, nuisance, parliament, privilege, secretary, vegetable |
WB 10/5/2021 | Suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending fer reference, referee
| Words with double consonants accommodate, accompany, according, aggressive, apparent |
WB 17/5/2021 | Long ee spelt ei perceive, conceive, ceiling
| Words with double consonants appreciate, attached, committee, communicate, correspond, |
WB | Homophones altar, alter, ascent, assent, bridal, bridle, cereal, serial, compliment, complement | Words with double consonants immediate, occupy, occur, opportunity, recommend, suggest |
Year 5 and 6 Spelling Coverage - Spring 2
Below are a list of spelling rules, and examples, that Year 5 and 6 will be taught each week. These are in line with the National Curriculum Programme of Study and alongside our Whole School Phonics and Spelling Programme.
Your child's teacher will teach the rule each week and allow time to practise in school - words to learn will then be spent home each week, following the specific taught rule.
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WB 22/2/2021 |
Suffixes ant–ance–ancy observant/ hesitant/hesitancy expectant/expectance tolerant/assistance |
Investigate homophones advice/advise device/devise licence/license practice/practise prophecy/prophesy |
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WB 29/2/2021 |
Investigate homophones procede/proceed principle/principal profit/prophet stationary/stationery |
Investigate homophones advice/advise device/devise licence/license practice/practise prophecy/prophesy |
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WB 8/3/2021 |
Suffixes ent–ence–ency frequent/frequency decent/decency confident/confidence
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Practise and apply homophones aloud/allowed affect/effect altar/alter |
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WB 15/3/2021 |
Investigate homophones steal/steel aloud/allowed aisle/isle wary/weary who’s/whose affect/effect |
Practise and apply homophones bridal/bridle cereal/serial herd/heard |
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WB 22/3/2021 |
Adding-suffixes-beginning-with-vowel-letters-to-words-ending-in-fer referring/referred/referral preferring/preferred/preference transferring/transferred/ transference reference/referee |
Practise and apply homophones morning/mourning farther/father guessed/guest |
Year 5 and 6 Spelling Coverage - Spring 1
Below are a list of spelling rules, and examples, that Year 5 and 6 will be taught each week. These are in line with the National Curriculum Programme of Study and alongside our Whole School Phonics and Spelling Programme.
Your child's teacher will teach the rule each week and allow time to practise in school - words to learn will then be spent home each week, following the specific taught rule.
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Year 6 |
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WB 11/1/2021 |
Words ending with: ant, ance, ancy, ent, ence, ency (observant, observance, expectancy, innocent, innocence, decency) |
Letter string -ough (bought, enough, rough, cough, thorough, bough) |
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WB 18/1/2021 |
Words ending with: ant, ance, ancy, ent, ence, ency (observant, observance, expectancy, innocent, innocence, decency) |
Silent letters (knight, solemn, thistle, doubt, island, lamb |
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WB 25/1/2021 |
Homophones (precede, proceed, principal, principle, profit, prophet, stationary, stationery) |
Nouns and verbs (advice, advise, practice, practise) |
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WB 1/2/2021 |
Words with unstressed vowels (accommodate bruise, category, cemetery, definite, desperate, dictionary, embarrass) |
Homophones (alter, altar) |
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WB 8/2/2021 |
Words with unstressed vowels (environment, exaggerate, marvellous, nuisance, parliament, privilege, secretary, vegetable) |
Homophones (boy, buoy, past, passed) |
Year 5 and 6 Spelling Coverage - Autumn 2
Below are a list of spelling rules, and examples, that Year 5 and 6 will be taught each week. These are in line with the National Curriculum Programme of Study and alongside our Whole School Phonics and Spelling Programme.
Your child's teacher will teach the rule each week and allow time to practise in school - words to learn will then be spent home each week, following the specific taught rule.
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Year 5 |
Year 6 |
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WB 2/11/2020 |
Long i spelt y in initial and medial positions of word (myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery) |
trans- bi- tri- semi- (bilingual, semifinal, triangle) |
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WB 9/11/2020 |
Prefixes: -inter-, re-, ir-, im- (interact, redo, irregular, immature)
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Aero- micro- tele- photo- (aeroplane, microwave, telephone, photograph) |
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WB 16/11/2020 |
k spelt –ch (scheme, chorus, chemist) s spelt –ch (chef, chalet, machine) g spelt –gue (league, tongue) k spelt –que (antique, unique) |
Co- re- (re-sent, co-operate) |
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WB 23/11/2020 |
-tial and -cial endings (partial, confidential, official, special) |
-cious –tious -xious (infectious, luscious, gracious) |
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WB 30/11/2020 |
i before e except after c (deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, ceiling) |
-cial -tial (special, martial) |
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WB 7/12/2020 |
i before e (achieve, convenience, mischievous) |
-suffixes/prefixes |
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WB 14/12/2020 |
-s spelt -c before e, i and y (cemetery, conscience, conscious, criticise, excellent, existence, hindrance, necessary, prejudice, sacrifice) |
-suffixes/prefixes |
Year 5 and 6 Spelling Coverage - Autumn 1
Below are a list of spelling rules, and examples, that Year 5 and 6 will be taught each week. These are in line with the National Curriculum Programme of Study and alongside our Whole School Phonics and Spelling Programme.
Your child's teacher will teach the rule each week and allow time to practise in school - words to learn will then be spent home each week, following the specific taught rule.
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Year 6 |
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WB 14/9/2020 |
-ous (infectious, ambitious, precious, gracious) |
-ance/ence (relevance, science, patience, balance) |
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WB 21/9/2020 |
-ough (plough, bough, cough, enough, though) |
-able/ible (dependable, predictable, visible, incredible) |
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WB 28/9/2020 |
-le (vegetable, muscle, vehicle, available) |
-ably/ibly (miserably, tolerably, visibly, legibly) |
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WB 5/10/2020 |
-tion (explanation, profession, pronunciation) |
-fer (offered, transferred, preferably, difference) |
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WB 12/10/2020 |
-tion/sion/cian (prevention, magician, expression, option) |
ie/ei (field, brief, deceive, receive) |