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Spelling in Year 5 (age 9–10)

In Year 5, your child will be spelling more complicated words with increased accuracy.

What your child will learn

Using more prefixes and suffixes.

Suffixes are morphemes (groups of letters that mean something on their own) that are added at the end of a root or root word to change the meaning. Prefixes are morphemes added at the front of a word.

In Years 5 and 6, your child will learn about lots of prefixes and suffixes to spell longer words and change the meaning of those words.

Spelling some words with ‘silent’ letters

Some words include letters that were sounded hundreds of years ago but aren’t sounded in modern English. For example, in ‘knight’, there used to be a ‘k’ sound before the ‘n’. Now the pronunciation has changed, but the spelling hasn’t, so the word includes a ‘silent’ letter that cannot be predicted from how the word sounds. Words like this can be very tricky to spell.

In Years 5 and 6, your child will learn some of these words, including:

doubt, island, lamb, solemn, thistle, knight

Knowing the difference between homophones and other confusing words

Homophones are words that are spelled differently and have different meanings, but are pronounced in the same (or almost the same) way. They are often confused in children’s writing. In Years 5 and 6, your child will be taught the difference between:

Aisle/isle, aloud/ allowed, affect/effect, altar/alter, ascent/assent, bridal/ bridle, cereal/serial, compliment/complement, descent/ dissent, desert/dessert, draft/draught, farther/further/father, guessed/guest, heard/herd, led/lead, morning/mourning, past/passed, precede/proceed, principal/principle, profit/prophet, stationary/ stationery, steal/steel, wary/weary, who’s/whose

Using morphology and etymology in spelling

Knowledge of roots words can also help when a word isn’t spelled using the most obvious set of letters to represent the sounds. For example, knowing that that science , conscious , and conscience all share the same Latin root can help us to remember tricky ‘sci’ spellings.

Checking spellings in a dictionary

Using a thesaurus, how to help at home.

There are lots of ways you can help your Year 5 child with spelling. Here are our top ideas.

1. Help with spelling homework

If your child is struggling with a spelling list they have been asked to learn, here are a few ideas to help:

• Remind your child to regularly check through their writing for spelling errors. They need to develop a feel for whether a word looks right. They could underline words they are not sure of and then check with a dictionary.
• Use over-pronunciation. So for  Wednesday , encourage children to say  Wed-nes-day  as they write. There are lots of words which feature sounds that aren’t always pronounced clearly (such as words ending in -ed ), and over-emphasising these while spelling them out can help fix the spelling in your child’s memory.
• Ask your child to write down the words that they need to remember how to spell. The physical act of writing the words by hand helps to anchor the spelling in children’s memories and encourages them to think about the letters that represent the sounds in the word. Typing the words into a PC or tablet isn’t as effective.
• Focus your child’s attention on the tricky bits in a word by asking them to highlight them. For example, show them that said has ‘ai’ in the middle and ask them to write the word, and then highlight or underline this part to help them remember. Few resources are more motivating than a highlighter pen for primary-aged children!

2. Play spelling games

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For example, your child may have to learn ‘room took hoop foot book’. They could make up a silly sentence such as ‘The boy took his book across the room but got his foot caught in a hoop’. Why not draw illustrations to go with the sentences?

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Spelling Year 6

Spelling Year 6 KS2. Support on spelling for kids with Super Brainy Beans. Primary homework help with worksheet downloads and online games.

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If you find the spellings difficult in your year then try starting with spellings from the year below. It's ok to work lower than the year you are on and fill the gaps rather than struggling at your level without understanding the basics.

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Download and print out our spelling worksheets for Year 6. 360 words especially selected for kids in Year 6, KS2.

• Uses the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check method.
• Covers all the essential words to learn in Year 6.
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Learning spellings

Practice your spellings for four days then get someone to test you on the fifth day without looking at the words first.

Spell all 40 common words

Throughout Year 6 children are expected to learn how to spell the 40 new words which are commonly used in reading and writing.

Suffixes able & ible

Suffixes are groups of letters that can be added to a root word. Suffixes change the meaning of a word to make a new word.

Words ending in able or ible , shows something can be done.

break able fashion able like able reason able

poss ible vis ible incred ible terr ible sens ible

able or ible at the end of the word?

There is an easy way of working this out by taking away the ending and seeing if you have a root word. notice able Notice is a true word so we use able .

poss ible Poss is not a word so we use ible .

Suffixes cial & tial

Use cial in a word when it comes after any of the vowels.

spe cial offi cial so cial

Use tial in a word when it comes after a consonant.

poten tial essen tial par tial

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Prefixes micro & mini

A prefix is a group of letters that are added to a root word. Prefixes change the meaning of a word to make a new word.

Words beginning with the prefix micro or mini , mean small.

mini bus mini beast micro chip

Words with ce

These words contain ce .

ce lebrate ce rtificate sacrifi ce

Words with ie or ei

These words contain ee sound spelt ie or ei .

bel ie ve dec ei ve c ei ling

Words with ou or ow

These words have ou or ow .

wind ow kn ow n sh ou lder

Homophones are words that sound the same but mean different things. It's important which spelling you should use.

advice / advise practice / practise device / devise

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These worksheets, covering ‘ ough ’ words, are an excellent way for children to revise and practise these Year 5 and 6 spelling words .

The worksheets include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.

What is included in this primary resource?

• Tips Advise and examples of the various sounds ‘ough’ words make, with space to provide your own examples
• Check Circle the words that are spelt correctly, then place the words into the correct sentences
• Use Use the images provided and the accompanying words to write a sentence for each
• Change Read each sentence and change the underlined word or phrase for a synonym which includes the letter string ‘ough’
• Apply Create three different sentences which use at least six differently sounding ‘ough’ letter strings

National Curriculum English programme of study links

Pupils should be taught to:

Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them

Use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that the spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically, as listed in English Appendix 1

Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words

Use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary

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Year 5 / 6 Common Exception Words Spelling Activities ( set 1)

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

Last updated

1 January 2019

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This is the first set in the series of activities to practise the spellings of Year 5 and 6 Common Exception Words. The activities in this set are based on the first 10 words of the list - accommodate, accompany, according, achieve, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached.

The activities include : page 1 - cover page 2 - mini word lists page 3 - Look, say, cover, write, check activity pages 4 - 8 - words flash cards pages 9 - 10 - Word search (with answers) page 11 - Make a sentence activity page 12 - Caption it activity page 13 - Spelling Maths activity page 14 -credits

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