Spellings

19.10.15

New Spellings

Each week children will have an individual list of five words to learn.  Children need to be secure in using these words as well as spelling them correctly.  Therefore, for homework the children will be asked to use them in two activities, similar to those they complete during guided reading lessons.  Every child has a selection of activities in their home learning book to choose from and using a variety of these will aid the learning of their words.  Alongside these activities, children will need to write a sentence for each of their spelling words, this encourages them to use their words in their writing and helps increase their vocabulary too.

Here is the statutory word list that children will choose their spellings from.  It is expected that children will be able to spell and use these words by the end of year 6.

Statutory word list for Years 5 and 6

accommodate

accompany

according

achieve

aggressive

amateur

ancient

apparent

appreciate

attached

available

average

awkward

bargain

bruise

category

cemetery

committee

communicate

community

competition

conscience

conscious

controversy

convenience

correspond

criticise (critic + ise)

curiosity

definite

desperate

determined

develop

dictionary

disastrous

embarrass

environment

equip (-ped, -ment)

especially

exaggerate

excellent

existence

explanation

familiar

foreign

forty

frequently

government

guarantee

harass

hindrance

identity

immediately

interfere

interrupt

language

leisure

lightning (h)

marvellous

mischievous

muscle (h)

necessary

neighbour

nuisance

occupy

occur

opportunity

parliament

persuade

physical

prejudice

privilege

profession

programme

pronunciation

queue

recognise

recommend

restaurant

rhyme

rhythm

sacrifice

secretary

shoulder

signature

sincere(ly)

soldier

stomach

sufficient

suggest

symbol (h)

system

temperature

thorough

twelfth

variety

vegetable

vehicle

yacht