Year 5 Spelling

19 June 2015

The spellings this week are all words with silent letters. The silent letter in each word is in bold.

12 June 2015

All the spellings this week contain the letter string ough. It’s important to practise reading these words as well as writing them down as there are a variety of sounds that the ough words can make.

The sound which the ough word make are shown in bold in the list eg ‘uff‘.

05 June 2015

The spellings this week are all words where the ‘i before e except after c’ rule applies. You’re in luck this week because there aren’t many of them!

15 May 2015

This is the third spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs end in a y. For the present and past tense forms, you need to drop the y for an I and then add es  for present tense or ed for past tense.

As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

Infinitive – I cry.

Present – She cries

Past – I cried

Continuous – I was crying.  I am crying.

Group 1 

Group 2

08 May 2015

This is the second spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs contain a long vowel sound and end in e. This e is dropped when it’s changed to the continuous form. As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

• Infinitive – I like to shop.
• Present – She shops very often.
• Past – She shopped all day long.
• Continuous – She was shopping.   She is shopping.          

Group 1 

Group 2 

01 May 2015

This is the first spelling week about verbs. All the verbs have a doubled consonant for a short vowel sound.

The verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

• Infinitive – I like to shop.
• Present – She shops very often.
• Past – She shopped all day long.
• Continuous – She was shopping. / She is shopping.

Group 1

Group 2 

24 April 2015

We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week: drop the y for an i. For each spelling, you have to drop the y and replace it with an ies in order to pluralise the word.

Group 1

Group 2

We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week: drop the y for an i. For each spelling, you have to drop the y and replace it with an ies in order to pluralise the word. 

27 March 2015

Group 1 – This week, the spellings are all words which have a doubled consonant after a short vowel sound. These words are all taken from the National Curriculum spelling list.

Group 2 – The spellings this week also contain a double consonant after a short vowel sound. These words also have an ed ending as they are in the past tense.

13 March 2015

There are just three spellings this week:

In class, lots of children are getting these words mixed up.

There

There represents a place.

eg The boy is over there.

It also can show that something exists.

eg There are two apples.

Their  

There is used to show possession.

eg Their house is close to ours.

They’re

They’re is a shortened version of ‘they are’.

eg They’re coming all the way from London.

When practising these words, you should read a sentence with either of the words in and your child should tell you which word is correct. 

06 March 2015

This week, the words all end in tial. Usually tial is used after a consonant letter but there are some exceptions like initial.

The spellings this week all have the suffix ful.