Spelling

19 March 2021

This week, we have been focusing on words that contain the -cial and -tial letter string. Learn the following words using the strategies which we use in our spelling lessons in preparation for a test on Thursday 25 March.

confidential
substantial
residential
essential
torrential
financial
social
racial
partial
influential
controversial
official
commercial
special
artificial

19 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.

We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?

Watch out for words that don’t make sense! There is space to add four of your own root words.

19 March 2021

Use last week’s spellings and write them showing ascenders (tall letters) and descenders (letters that go below the line), like this –

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

• after
• because
• again
• behind
• any
• both
• bath
• break
• beautiful
• busy

12 March 2021

This week, we’ve been learning how to add suffixes to words ending in -fer. Please learn the following words for a test on Thursday 18 March 2021. 

• inference
• preferred
• offered
• reference
• referring
• preference
• referral
• inferred

12 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).

Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!

12 March 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

• after
• because
• again
• behind
• any
• both
• bath
• break
• beautiful
• busy

05 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.

Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?

 e.g. The root word of completely is complete.

 Spelling list:

• accidentally
• completely
• closely
• frantically
• particularly
• occasionally
• separately
• basically
• probably
• surprisingly

Friday 08 March

This week, we have been focusing on words that contain the ‘shun’ sound by using the endings -tion, -sion and -cian. Learn the following words using the strategies which we use in our spelling lessons in preparation for a test on Friday 12 March.

appreciation
communication
desperation
determination
exaggeration
explanation
interruption
occupation
persuasion
explosion
suggestion
optician
electrician

05 March 2021

This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.

Year 1

• school
• some
• so
• the
• she

Year 2

• after
• because
• again
• behind
• any
• both
• bath
• break
• beautiful
• busy

Week beginning 11 January 2021

This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.