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
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
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
08 January 2021
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Homophones |
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| desert | dessert |
| stationary | stationery |
| compliment | complement |
| principal | principle |
| which | witch |
27 November 2020
This week, we’ve been learning the spelling rule for words ending in ible and able. Complete this sheet matching words to the correct word ending.
13 November 2020
Spelling pattern ‘ough’
Learn for a spelling test next week.
- thorough
- enough
- cough
- thought
- plough
- dough
- ought
- bough
- although
- rough
06 November 2020
This week, we’ve been learning how to change nouns from singular to plural. Click here to remind yourself of the rules for plurals.
Change these nouns from singular to plural.
bargain
bruise
puppy
category
hoof
community
dictionary
wolf
bush
crutch
design
opportunity
Choose some words and put them into sentences.
Challenge: add parenthesis (extra information) by using brackets, dashes or commas.
16 October 2020
This week, we’ve been learning about prefixes- complete this sheet.
Match the correct prefix with the root word and write the new word in a sentence.
Please send a photograph of your sentences to nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org
03 October 2020
This week, we’ve been learning about apostrophes for missing letters (contracted form). Complete the activities below and email me a picture to nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org by Thursday 08 October.
Shorten these words using an apostrophe:
she will ______________________
they have _____________________
they are _______________________
where is ______________________
he is _________________________
must not ______________________
can not _______________________
Write a sentence using shortened versions of the words below.
should have
____________________________________________
will not
____________________________________________
could have
____________________________________________
25 September 2020
This week’s spelling activity is all about words where you have to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ when changing the word’s suffix. Your challenge is to play Speed Write against someone at home! Who can write the word correctly the most times in 30 seconds? If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out!
- category/ies
- community/ies
- identity/ies
- dictionary/ies
- funny/iest
- happy/ier
- worry/ier