This week’s spellings are using the suffix ‘ly’ to create adverbs. Adverbs tell us ‘how’ something is being done.

Group 1: slowly, quickly, sadly, happily, describe, playful

Group 2: slowly, quickly, happily, rapidly, describe, successful, mysterious

Group 3: slowly, quickly, happily, rapidly, hungrily, describe, successful, mysterious, accidentally

You will also notice some other words on the sheet for each group. We are recapping words from previous spellings to make sure the children have embedded them. The research shows that children learn their spellings for a test but can find it hard to remember them a few weeks later. These words should not be new learning for the children but a recap of previous words.

Suffix -ly

This week’s spellings are a mixture of adjectives and adverbs using the suffixes less and ly.

Group 1: care, careless, carelessly, careful, carefully.

Group 2: care, careless, carelessly, careful, carefully, thoughtful, thoughtfully

Group 3: thoughtful, thoughtfully, thoughtless, thoughtlessly, painful, painfully, fearless, fearlessly

Can you put them into sentences?

Parents – this week, you could also read these sentences out loud and ask your child to write the whole sentence. You might need to read it out to your child a couple of times! Can they remember and write it?

The careless lady dropped her coat into the sea.

The boy was careful when he offered his sweets.

The girl was carefully unwrapping her gift.

This week’s words have a  /sh/ sound spelt with ‘ch’ (mostly French in origin).

Group 1: chef, machine,    chalet, brochure

Group 2: chef, machine, chalet, brochure, machine, parachute

Group 3: chef, machine, chalet, brochure, parachute, champagne, moustache (apologies group 3, I think you have machine twice on your sheet!)

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