Brunswick Primary School - Year 5 Literacy

Spellings Year 5
Based on Support for Spelling and the National Curriculum 2014
Support for spelling is a fantastic programme which is available to view online and has some great ideas which support the teaching of spelling in schools.

	Support for Spelling Objectives	NC 2014 links
Autumn Term 1	To spell words with common letter strings and different pronunciations. Word examples with cross over to the new curriculum. Bough, cough, enough, plough, though, bought, drought, sought, thought. Plus: ea – read, deaf, Reading and bear. ai – ate, eight, train, gate. igh- light, night, right, eight, weight, sigh, high ear – pear, learn, ear, earth	Key Words thorough, accommodate, accompany, according, rhyme, rhythm, occur, occupy, determined, develop Statutory expectations to cover Words containing the letter string ‘ough’ New NC with examples ought, bought, thought, nought, brought, fought rough, tough, enough cough though, although, dough through thorough, borough plough, bough
	NB. Word example list included in support for spelling, year 5 term 1 (ii)	NB. ‘ough’ - This is one of the trickiest spellings in English and can be used to spell a number of sounds.
Autumn Term 2	To spell unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words. K – in knife, know, knee Wednesday, separate, business	Key Words (these were chosen from the new curriculum to fit with support for spelling obj) vegetable, familiar, category, definite, dictionary plus achieve, cemetery, forty, symbol, programme Statutory expectations to cover Words with ‘silent’ letters New NC with examples doubt, island, lamb, solemn, thistle, knight
	NB. Word example list included in support for spelling, year 5 term 1 (i)
Spring 1	To explore the spelling patterns of consonants and to formulate rules. OUT – Covered earlier.	Key Words frequently, identity, muscle, neighbour, opportunity, queue, recognise, relevant, soldier, twelfth Statutory expectations to cover Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer Use of the hyphen New NC with examples referring, referred, referral, preferring, preferred, transferring, transferred. reference, referee, preference, transference co-ordinate, re-enter, co-operate, co-own.
		NB. The ‘r’ is doubled, if the –fer is still stressed when an ending is added. The ‘r’ is not doubled if the –fer is no longer stressed. Hyphens can be used to join a prefix to a root word, especially if the prefix ends in vowel letter and the root word also begins with one.
Spring 2	To explore less common prefixes and suffixes OUT – Covered earlier.	Key Words Aggressive, amateur, bargain, bruise, especially, excellent, government, harass, hindrance, variety Statutory expectations to cover Endings which sound like –cial and –tial New NC with examples official, special, artificial, partial, confidential, essential.
		NB: -cial is common after a vowel letter and –tial after a consonant letter, though there are some exceptions. Exceptions: initial, financial, commercial, provincial.
Summer 1	To investigate and learn spelling rules for adding suffixes to words ending in ‘e’, words ending in ‘y’ and words containing ‘ie’. Cover earlier OUT	Key Words Ancient, apparent, average, committee, communicate, community, desperate, language, persuade, system Statutory expectations to cover Words with the ‘ee’ (/i:/) sound spelt ‘ei’ after ‘c’ New NC with examples Deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, ceiling
		NB. Exceptions, protein, caffeine, seize
Summer 2	To investigate and learn spelling rules for adding suffixes Word examples which overlap with new NC - ous infectious, previous, obvious, gaseous	Key Words marvelous, mischievous, disastrous, conscious, appreciate, competition, embarrass, individual, physical, shoulder Statutory expectations to cover Words ending in –able/ably and –ible/ibly Words which end in –cious or -tious New NC examples adorable/adorably (adoration), applicable/applicably (application), considerable/considerably (consideration), tolerable/tolerably (toleration) changeable, noticeable, forcible, legible dependable, comfortable, understandable, reasonable, enjoyable, reliable possible/possibly, horrible/horribly, terrible/terribly, visible/visibly, incredible/incredibly, sensible/sensibly vicious, precious, conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious
		NB. Rule – if –able is added to a word ending in ‘ce’ or ‘ge’ the ‘e’ must be kept (eg. noticeable and changeable)

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