Spelling patterns 02.03.20

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Adding verb prefixes to de- and re- e.g. deflate, deform, recycle, rewrite

Year 6: Words that can be nouns and verbs e.g. challenge, protest, broadcast, function

Spelling patterns 24.02.20

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words, e.g. definite, literate, desperate, familiar

Year 6: Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning e.g. programme, telegram, hologram, diagram

Spelling patterns 10.02.20

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using the suffix -ify e.g. simplify, crucify, solidify, signify

Year 6: Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning e.g. signature, assign, design, designate, significant

Spelling patterns 03.02.20

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using the suffix -ise e.g. criticise, advertise, capitalise, finalise

Year 6: Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning e.g. accommodate, accompany, access, accuse, accost, acrue

Spelling Patterns 27.01.20

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Convert nouns or adjectives into verbs using the suffix -ate e.g. pollinate, captivate, activate, motivate, communicate

Year 6: Words with a ‘soft c’ spelt /ce/ e.g. cemetery, certificate, necessary, sacrifice, nuisance

Spelling patterns 20.01.20

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Words with an /or/ sound spelt ‘au’ e.g. pause, cause, sauce, fraud, applaud

Year 6: Words with endings which sound like /shuhl/ after a consonant letter e.g. partial, confidential, essential, substantial, torrential

Spelling patterns 13.01.20

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Words with an /or/ sound spelt ‘or’ e.g. forty, absorb, decorate, enormous, scorch

Year 6: Words with endings which sound like /shuhl/ after a vowel letter e.g. social, official, special, artificial, racial

Spelling patterns 09.12.19

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: More homophones and near homophones e.g. alter/alter, bridal/bridle, serial/cereal

Year 6: Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning e.g. suggest/digest/congestion/gesture/gestation

Spelling Patterns 02.12.19

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Homophones and near homophones e.g. stationary/stationery, wary/weary,who’s/whose

Year 6: Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning e.g. temper/temperate/temperature/temperament

Spelling Patterns 25.11.19

The spelling patterns we are learning this week in Class 5 are:

Year 5: Creating nouns with -ship suffix, e.g. membership, ownership, partnership

Year 6: More words with a long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ after c (and exceptions) e.g. receipt, shriek, ceiling, protein