More using the letter string “ough”

plough
bough
drought
brought
thought
bought
thorough
borough
ought
wrought

These are the spellings I gave out in last Monday and you have been practising in class:

excellent
variety
suggest
system
muscle
average
occupy
environment
physical
vegetable

This week we have a selection from the Year 5/6 statutory spellings list.

accompany
amateur
bargain
bruise
community
competition
explanation
guarantee
individual
prejudice

This week we are learning to spell words ending ‘-ably’ and ‘-ibly’ by turning -ible and -able adjectives into adverbs.

(You may notice this links to our “ible” “able” spellings two weeks ago.)

possibly
responsibly
horribly
sensibly
legibly
comfortably
reasonably
suitably
reasonably
reliably

LO: To spell words ending in –able and -ible

This week we have a spelling pattern to think about. The words below are examples of this pattern.

We discussed in class that one way to remember whether they end in “able” or “ible” is to look at the root word – if it sounds like able has been added to a real word then it will be “able” (e.g. adorable) If the root does’t sound like a word (e.g. horrible then it will be “ible”).

horrible

terrible

possible

enjoyable

forgivable

disposable

reversible

edible

adorable

valuable

Can you think of any other words which follow this pattern?

I have added a task on Purple Mash to help you to practise this pattern – this is optional.

Each week you will be given your new spelling on a printed sheet- please remember to take them home!

These spellings are some from the Statutory 5/6 list.

achieve

apparent

attached

desperate

familiar

marvellous

privilege

recognise

We are continuing to focus on the Statutory spelling list for year 5/6.

Here are the activity sheets for whole list. Year-5-and-6-statutory-spelling-words-activity-sheets-combined>

Use the sheets for these spellings:

available

average

awkward

bargain

category

cemetery

committee

communicate

community