We use 'The Spelling Shed' to teach a weekly spelling rule which pupils will then practice for homework by playing on the games which have been assigned by us!

 

In Years 5 and 6, the following spelling rules and patterns will be taught:

• Words ending -cious and -tious such as 'delicious' and 'superstitious'
• Words ending -cial and -tial such as 'special' and 'partial'
• Words ending -ant, -ance and -ancy such as 'hesitant', 'hesitance' and 'hesitancy'
• Words ending -ent, -ence and -ency such as ‘patient’, ‘patience’ and ‘frequency’
• Words ending -able / -ably and -ible / -ibly such as 'comfortable' / 'comfortably' and 'horrible' / 'horribly'
• Adding -ing / -ed to words ending -fer, for example: 'prefer', 'preferring' and 'preferred'
• Use of the hyphen, for example: 'co-ordinate', 're-enter'
• Words containing ie / ei, for example: 'piece' and 'ceiling'
• Words containing ough and looking at the different sounds this grapheme makes in different words, for example: 'enough', 'through', 'although', 'plough'
• Silent letters in words such as 'doubt', 'thistle' and 'knight'
• Homophones (words which sound the same but are spelled differently) for example: 'principle' and 'principal'