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Spellings

This year, we are trying to encourage pupils to focus on learning the rule behind spellings rather than learn a set of 10 spellings every week. As a result of this, your child will need to learn 6 spellings that follow a particular rule and then they will receive mystery spellings during their weekly spelling test (every Wednesday).

Week 1 - Test on Wed 14th Jan

Rule 1 - The /g/ sound spelt 'gu'

guide

guitar

guard

guest

guardian

quarantee

(4 mystery spellings during the test will follow the same spelling rule)

Week 2 - Test on Wed 22nd Jan

Rule 2 - words ending with 'ture'

mixture

adventure

capture

feature

moisture

nature

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

Week 3 - Test on Wed 29th Jan

Statutory Word List

grammar

group

heard

heart

height

history

imagine

increase

important

interest

Week 4 - Test on Wed 5th Feb

Rule 3 - Homophones

scene

seen

mail

male

ball

bawl

Week 5 - Test on Wed 12th Feb

Statutory Word List

island

knowledge

learn

length

library

material

medicine

mention

minute

natural

Week 6 - Test on Wed 26th Feb

Statutory Word List

naughty

notice

occasion

often

opposite

ordinary

particular

peculiar

perhaps

popular

Week 7 - Test on Wed 5th March

Rule 4 - Prefixes 'inter' and 'anti'

international

intercept

antibiotic

intergalactic

interpersonal

antidote

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

 

Week 8 - Test on Thurs 13th Mar

Rule 5 - Suffixes 'cian', 'sion', 'ssion', 'tion'

physician

extension

profession

fiction

optician

collision

(4 mystery spellings during the test)

THIS IS THE LAST SPELLING TEST UNTIL AFTER THE EASTER HOLIDAYS

Ways to Learn Spellings

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