Spellings – Y6 Autumn Term 2 (Nov/Dec 2017)
You will be learning these words in school during the term. All these words have been learnt previously, but need revising. Please learn them at home each week for our spelling tests on Wednesdays, when you will also be tested on words from previous weeks. The best way is to ask someone to test you to find out which ones you need to learn, then think of ways to remember them (root word, smaller words within a word, silly rhymes etc). Look, say, cover, spell, check also works well and only takes 10 minutes a day.
Suffix revision 1-tion -ation -sion –ssion / Suffix revision 2
-cial -tial / Suffix revision 3
-ly –ily -ally / Suffix revision 4
-ous –eous –ious / Homophones- learn the meanings and use in a sentence
Group 1 / –tion / -ation is added to verbs to form nouns.
information
preparation
admiration
decoration
population
invention
injection
action
hesitation
–sion is used if the root word ends in d, de or se.
division
invasion
confusion
decision
–ssion is used if the root word ends in ss or –mit.
expression
discussion
confession
permission
admission / –cial is common after a vowel letter and
facial
social
special
official
artificial
glacial
(Extra -
beneficial
commercial
crucial)
–tial after a consonant letter, but there are some exceptions
partial
initial
potential
essential
residential
torrential
confidential
substantial / –ly is added to an adjective to form an adverb.
sadly
completely
usually
finally
strangely
actually
quickly
carefully
Exceptions:
(1) If the root word ends in –y, change y to i then add -ly
happily
easily
luckily
angrily
(2) If the root word ends with
–le, the –le is changed to –ly gently
probably
(3) If the root word ends with
–ic, –ally is added
basically
frantically
dramatically / poisonous
dangerous
mountainous
famous
various
tremendous
enormous
jealous
–our is changed to –or before –ous is added.
humorous
glamorous
A final ‘e’ of the root word must be kept if the sound of ‘g’ is to be kept.
courageous
outrageous
If there is an i sound before the
–ous ending, it is usually spelt as i, but a few words have e.
serious
obvious
curious
hideous
spontaneous
courteous / berry
bury
brake
break
fair
fare
groan
grown
here
hear
heel
heal
he’ll
knot
not
male
meat
meet
missed
mist
peace
piece
plain
plane
weather
whether
Test Wednesday 8th November / Test Wednesday15th November / Test Wednesday22nd November / Test Wednesday 29th November / Test Wednesday 6th December
Please read at least 3 times every week and record your reading in your reading diary.
Continue to learn and practise your times tables and complete your MyMaths by Wednesday each week.
Please speak to your class teacher if there are any problems with homework. It shouldn’t take too long, cause arguments or upset! You should be increasingly independent.