Year 5/6 Word List

especially
excellent
exaggerate
existence
explanation
familiar
foreign
forty
frequently

Year 5/6 Word List

curiosity
definite
desperate
determined
develop
dictionary
disastrous
embarrass
environment

fought
ought
wrought
slough
trough
dough
(break)through
plough

Letter string -ough

bought
thought
enough
rough
tough
cough
although
though
through
drought

Adding –ed, –ing, –er, –est, –en to words with more than one syllable

acquit

allot

begin

control

forget/forgot

gallop

incur

omit

regret

transmit

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

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

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