Spellings
Spellings
We will not be testing the children, but you may want to incorporate this into your weekly home learning and test them yourselves.
There are a few ideas for spelling activities to help your child learn and retain the spellings.
Set 1
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
| -er, -est and -y endings | -er, -est and -y endings | -er, -est and -y endings |
| deep | large | crazy |
| deeper | larger | crazier |
| deepest | largest | craziest |
| neat | thin | lucky |
| neater | thiner | luckier |
| neatest | thinest | luckiest |
| loud | bigger | happier |
| louder | biggest | happiest |
| loudest | hotter | funnier |
| near | hottest | funniest |
|
nearer |
nearer |
nearer |
| nearest | nearest | nearest |
Set 2
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
| irregular tense changes | irregular tense changes | irregular tense changes |
| blow | begin | teach |
| blew | began | taught |
| grow | sweep | fight |
| grew | swept | fought |
| throw | break | catch |
| threw | broke | caught |
| know | write | think |
| knew | wrote | thought |
| swim | hear | strike |
| swam | heard | struck |
Set 3
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
| two syllable words with double consonants | two syllable words with double consonants | two syllable words with double consonants |
| mummy | carry | running |
| daddy | follow | swimming |
| happy | pillow | shopping |
| snappy | swallow | getting |
| funny | letter | kettle |
| runny | butter | bubble |
| sorry | pepper | written |
| lorry | dinner | messed |
| penny | better | stopped |
| puppy | rabbit | grabbed |
Set 4
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
| homophones | homophones | homophones |
| are | peace | morning |
| our | piece | mourning |
| hour | right | place |
| too | write | plaice |
| two | herd | seen |
| sum | heard | scene |
| some | board | through |
| sun | bored | threw |
| son | there | their |
| there | they're | they're |
Set 5
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
| compound words | compound words | compound words |
| out | anyone | anywhere |
| side | someone | somewhere |
| outside | everybody | everywhere |
| inside | anybody | cupboard |
| play | somebody | breakfast |
| time | everybody | deadline |
| playtime | anything | upstairs |
| foot | something | weekend |
| ball | everything | playground |
| football | nothing | clockwise |
Set 6
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
| suffixes -ly, -ful, -less | suffixes -ly, -ful, -less | suffixes -ly, -ful, -less |
| kind | friend | actually |
| kindly | friendly | especially |
| real | proper | eventually |
| really | properly | properly |
| nice | right | personally |
| nicely | rightly | certainly |
| week | final | honestly |
| weekly | finally | probably |
| near | total | happily |
| nearly | totally | totally |