Brunswick Primary School, Somerhill Road, BN3 1RP

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Brunswick Primary School

Achieving success with determination and joy

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)