Year 5 Spelling

It’s half-term…

…so there is no homework this week.

Please make sure your child spends some time most days reading – books, comics, newspapers… Why not visit the library or a book shop this week?

To support writing, your child should review their spellings from the last few weeks. You could test them on words from all the lists, and ask them to use the words in sentences or a story, or create a comic strip with a word used in each speech bubble.Perhaps you could set a challenge (for you as well as your child!) of using spelling words in everyday conversations! Practising handwriting by joining up is a useful activity, too.

In Maths, children in Key Stage 2 should definitely practise times tables – including the related division facts. Can your child respond within five seconds (not counting up to work it out) to questions like ‘What’s 7 times 8?’ and ‘What’s 42 divided by 6?’

Of course, make sure your child is happy and healthy over half-term, too! A walk and play at Roundhay Park, a bike ride, a conker challenge, a trip to the art gallery… Enjoy!

09 October 2015

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 16 October. They all end in ‘cious‘. Children can practise on their own using their red Learning Lists book but it is also great to practise writing the words into sentences to check that they understand the meaning.

• vicious
• precious
• conscious
• delicious
• malicious
• suspicious
• ferocious
• gracious
• spacious
• atrocious

02 October 2015

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 09 October.

They are homophones whose spelling shouldn’t be difficult, but understanding their role in the sentence (noun or verb) is trickier.

advise – advice 

• Verb – I advise you to stop smoking.
• Noun – That was good advice you gave me.

devise – device

• Verb – We need to devise a plan.
• Noun – This device will help us with our plan.

license – licence 

• Verb – I am licensed to drive.
• Noun – I hope I can get my driving licence.

practise – practice

• Verb – I’m going to go and practise my piano.
• Noun – I need to walk to the piano practice.

prophesy – prophecy

• Verb – I prophesy that I will get top marks.
• Noun – The prophecy said I would get top marks.

compliment – complement

• Verb – That jumper complements your eyes.
• Noun – A full complement of workers built the house.
• Verb – I complimented my mum’s eyes.
• Noun – What a lovely compliment.

descent – dissent

• Verb – The crew dissented from the captain’s decision.
• Noun – A steep descent loomed in front of me.

25 September 2015

This week’s spellings focus on the ‘double up for a short vowel‘ rule and will be tested on Friday 02 October.

• aggression
• accommodate
• accompany
• according
• lugging
• possibility
• approached
• clattering
• pummelled
• toppled

Your child will be tested on six of these spellings. In addition, they’ll be tested on two spellings they’ve learnt in previous weeks and two spellings that follow the double up rule but aren’t on the spelling list.

Additional spellings

Although we’re learning the spellings given in our red learning list books, here are some additional ones picked from mistakes in books this week.

• thing
• there
• for
• no-one
• found
• saw

18 September 2015

This week’s spellings use the spelling part ‘ough’ – this week, the ‘ough’ is pronounced in different ways. There are some tricky words to remember as well. We’re focusing on the 8 times table. Both will be tested on Friday 25 September.

• though
• although
• dough
• through
• thorough
• borough
• plough

…And here are the tricky words.

• achieve
• amateur
• ancient

11 September 2015

Children have been given a new Learning List book, which gives lots of great tips for learning spellings as well as being designed to allow children to practise independently.

This week’s spellings are all words that include ough:

thought

bought

ought

nought

brought

ought

rough

tough

enough

cough

10 July 2015

The spellings this week are a little different. The children won’t know the spelling list until the test. However, they have been told that the words will be from the three main spelling rules we talk about:

• drop the e for ing
• double up for short vowel sounds
• drop the y for an i

Children should look back at their learning lists for spelling lists featuring these rules.

03 July 2015

This week in Year 5, there are no spellings to learn.

Next week, we’ll be carrying out short progress tests to help inform my end of year assessments.  These will include a spelling test.

26 June 2015

The spellings this week are all homophones (words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings). The words are listed in pairs and children may be tested on any of the words. As the spellings sound the same, they will need to understand the context that the word is read in.

Group 2 should learn all of the words.

Group 1 do not have to (but are encouraged) to learn the bold words.