07 September 2012
This week’s spellings all have an ‘ing’ at the end and replace the ‘e’ in the root word.
The spelling rule to chant is drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.
There will be a bonus question where you will have to spell a word that follows the rule.
| LO: Words ending with ‘ing’. | ||
| hope | > | hoping |
| write | > | writing |
| decide | > | deciding |
| make | > | making |
| smile | > | smiling |
| muddle | > | muddling |
| translate | > | translating |
| raise | > | raising |
Can you come up with any more words that follow the rule?
06 July 2012
This week’s spellings are all synonyms for said.
We are learning about news reports at the moment and these spellings will be helpful when writing quotes.
| LO: Synonyms for said |
| stated |
| announced |
| declared |
| asserted |
| reported |
| recalled |
| added |
| remarked |
29 June 2012
The suffix we are going to be learning this week is tion.
Some of the time, these suffixes can be added with simply replacing the final t in the route word with tion. For example. correct and correction. However, there are a few exceptions which we’ll go through in the week.
| LO: Words that end with ‘tion’. |
| correction |
| construction |
| production |
| variation |
| conversation |
| creation |
| examination |
| education |
22 June 2012
This week’s spellings all end with the suffix fully.
Last week we looked at the suffix ‘ful’. We can make these words into adverbs by adding ly. Notice how there is now a double l on the end, e.g. wonder + ful + ly = wonderfully
| LO: Adverbs that end in fully |
| wonderfully |
| hopefully |
| mercifully |
| helpfully |
| carefully |
| hurtfully |
| thankfully |
| cheerfully |
15 June 2012
This week’s spellings all end with the suffix ful.
Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end, it loses one of its ls. For example, wonder and full becomes wonderful.
| LO: Words that end with ‘ful’. |
| wonderful |
| joyful |
| beautiful |
| thoughtful |
| careful |
| powerful |
| awful |
| painful |
| helpful |
| cheerful |
25 May 2012
This week’s spellings are a mixture of our three main spelling rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits any of the three rules.
| Double up for a short vowel sound | |
| 1. | snapping |
| 2. | madder |
| 3. | terrible |
| Drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ | |
| 4. | making |
| 5. | surprising |
| 6. | frustrating |
| Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ | |
| 7. | nastily |
| 8. | craftily |
| 9. | moodily |
| 10. | ???????? |
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are all tricky words which have been misspelled in our writing recently.
| 1. | opened |
| 2. | through |
| 3. | friends |
| 4. | around |
| 5. | between |
| 6. | different |
| 7. | brought |
| 8. | favourite |
| 9. | whole |
| 10. | together |
11 May 2011
This week, our spellings are all superlatives that follow the familiar spelling rule: ‘drop the y for an i’. For example, funny becomes funniest.
| deadliest |
| wealthiest |
| funniest |
| nastiest |
| craziest |
| friendliest |
| angriest |
| healthiest |
04 May 2012
This week our spellings are all adverbs that follow the familiar spelling rule: double up for short vowel sounds.
| terribly |
| bitterly |
| correctly |
| painfully |
| suddenly |
| impossibly |
| aggressively |
| successfully |
27 April 2012
This week in our spellings we are learning how to drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.
By adding ‘ing’ to the end of the verb, we have to drop the ‘e’ from the route word. For example, implore with an ing added becomes imploring.
| route word | ing added |
| implore | imploring |
| ignore | ignoring |
| frustrate | frustrating |
| write | writing |
| promote | promoting |
| loathe | loathing |
| aggravate | aggravating |
| discourage | discouraging |