Spellings were given new as usual on Monday for the children to bring home.

Sorry for the delay in adding them to the website.

Monday 23rd January 2023
LO: to spell words with endings which sound like /shuhl/
(Do we use cial or tial?)

official
special
commercial
artificial
financial
social
partial
confidential
influential
substantial
essential
torrential

LO: to spell words with a long /e/ sound spelt ei

ceiling

receipt

receive

perceive

deceit

conceited

protein

caffeine

seize

neither

You could look at other words at https://www.spellzone.com/unit21/page1.cfm

Monday 5th December 2022
LO: spell words from the Year 5/6 statutory list

twelfth
physical
vehicle
leisure
equipment
sufficient
environment
marvellous
yacht
neighbour

There are lots of tricky letter combinations in the words this week.

The following sentences were handed out and explained on Monday 21st November

LO: to spell words ending “cious” or “tious”

delicious
suspicious
spacious
infectious
cautious
vicious
nutritious
fractious
ambitious
precious

These websites may help the children understand this spelling pattern.

BBC Bitesize

Spellzone_ word endings cial, tial, cious, tious

The children were given the following sentences to help them understand the words in context:

What a delicious cake!
Please do not touch suspicious packages.
The new house was quite spacious which meant we could have everyone round for Christmas.
Some diseases are infectious; others are not.
You should be cautious when approaching dogs you do not know.
The cat launched a vicious attack on the unsuspecting dog.
It is important to eat nutritious food.
The children were quite fractious after too many late nights.
Mary is very ambitious: she wants to do law and aims to be a judge one day.
Andy was very upset because he had lost his wedding ring which was very precious to him.

LO: to spell commonly mis-spelt homophones in context

your

you’re

which

witch

hear

here

whether

weather

their

there

they’re

You could try these website to help you use these correctly:

https://www.spellzone.com/pages/teaching/how-to-learn-homophones.cfm

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-1506340.htm

Monday 7th November 2022
LO: to spell and use homophones and near homophones correctly
in context

advise
advice
practice
practise
device
devise
aloud
allowed
desert
dessert

Today, we verbally put each word into a sentence to explain the different meanings and use the words correctly. The focus is on making sure we can choose the correct homophone.

The spellings this week are taken from the Year 5/6 statutory words list.

They are tricky words.  If you are finding them hard to learn – focus on the first five listed below – it’s better to know five well than forget them all!

As Year 6 are away at Arthog next week, you all have an extra week to learn them. No extra spellings will be given next week. This is an opportunity to go back over the spellings and patterns we have covered so far this half term especially Year 5 who are in school as normal.

excellent
exaggerate
explanation
profession
programme
conscience
conscious
controversy
convenience
existence