Spellings term 4
Don’t forget to use Look, Cover, Write and Check at home to practise. You can use the back of your homework
book for this.
Every week you will also have some words from the STATUTORY YEAR 6 word list to learn in addition to the rule
set for the week
Week 1
Week com
23rd Feb
Week 2
Week com
2nd March
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Adding suffixes
Adding suffixes
Adding suffixes
Adding suffixes
Stopping
Trapped
Writing
Slippery
Quitting
Planning
Forgotten
Forgetting
forgotten
Beginning
Beginner
Prefer
Preferred
quizzed
Commitment
cancelled
Travelling
Forbidden
Occurrence
Marvellous
Enrolled
Limiting
Gardening
Limitation
Benefited
Regrettable
Signalled
Quarrelling
Familiar
Foreign
Government
Words with suffix
fer
Familiar
Foreign
Government
Words with suffix
fer
Familiar
Foreign
Government
Words with suffix
fer
Familiar
Foreign
Government
Words with suffix
fer
Golfer
Offer
Differ
Prefer
Suffer
Prefer
Preferred
Transfer
Transferred
Differ
Differing
Offer
Offered
Reference
Referred
Preference
Transfer
transferred
Referee
Suffer
Suffering
Reference
Referred
Preference
Transfer
transferred
Referee
Suffer
Suffering
amateur
ancient
available
amateur
ancient
available
Use of hyphen
amateur
ancient
available
Use of hyphen
Re-enter
Co-operate
Co-own
Co-ordinate
Re-enter
Passer-by
Co-ordinate
Co-operative
Re-iterate
Re-alignment
Pre-eminent
Cross- reference
Average
Awkward
Conscience
Conscious
Ible/Ibly
Ible/Ibly
Average
Awkward
Conscience
Conscious
Ible/Ibly
Possible
Legibly
Irresistible
Amateur
Ancient
Available
People
Friend
Week 3
Week com
9th March
Week 4
Week com
16th March
Possibly
Visible
Visibly
Horrible
horribly
Terrible
Terribly
legibly
incredibly
Incredible
Sensible
sensibly
Flexible
flexibly
irresistibly
Irresponsible
irresponsibly
Forcible
forcibly
illegible
illegibly
Achieve
Aggressive
Achieve
Aggressive
Achieve
Aggressive
Statutory year 6 word list
Week 5
Week com
23rd March
Convenient
Controversy
Criticise
Determined
Dictionary
Disastrous
Embarrass
Exaggerate
Existence
Equipment
Links and games to play
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html (very good links to all kinds of
spelling games)
http://www.funbrain.com/spell/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/factsheet/en17suff-l1-f-suffix-spelling-rules-double-letters
http://www.spellzone.com/games/index.cfm?wordlist=4660 (fer- games)
http://www.spellzone.com/games/index.cfm?wordlist=115 (ible- games)
RULES
Adding suffixes: If the last syllable of a word is stressed and ends with one consonant letter which has just
one vowel letter before it, the final consonant letter is doubled before any endings beginning with a vowel
letter is added. The consonant letter is not doubled if the syllable is unstressed.
Hyphen: is used to join prefix to root word, especially if prefix ends in a vowel letter & root word begins
with a vowel
Fer: The r is doubled if the –fer is still stressed when the ending is added. The r is not doubled if
the –fer is not stressed when the ending is added.
Ible/Ibly: the ible ending is common if the root word cannot be heard before it but also sometime
occurs when a whole word can be heard eg sensibly (able/ably is much more common)