Year 5 Spellings
Spring 2
Highlight any you are still finding tricky - keep this copy at home for regular practise.
Practise your spellings regularly as this can help you remember the words and the rule.
Write them in a sentence so that you can show that you understand how to spell the words, what they mean and the rule that they show.
Can you find any words that follow the same rule? Write them down and bring them in to share.
Get your parents to test you and remember to play some of the games you have used in class and online .Teach your family how to play.
Everyone must learn the blue words, most should learn the orange words and many of you could also learn the purple words.
The words in black may not fit the rule but are part of the list of words children should know by the end of Year 5 (please see the back)
so you should know those as well.
Remember it is the rule that we want you to understand.
Year 5
Some nouns ending in ‘o’ cannot make
their minds up. Sometimes they add ‘s’
other times they add ‘es’.
w/c 23/02/15
(to be tested 02/03/15)
zero
zeros
zeroes
mango
mangos
mangoes
tornado
tornados
tornadoes
forty
frequently
identity
Some nouns are always plural
w/c 02/03/15
(to be tested 09/03/15)
arms (weapons)
shorts
means
jeans
thanks
crossroads
scissors
series
binoculars
headquarters
immediate
immediately
Spring 2
Some nouns are the same in the singular and
plural
w/c 09/03/15
(to be tested 16/03/15)
cattle
cod
deer
sheep
police
hovercraft
aircraft
spacecraft
individual
interrupt
language
lightning
Not many common words end like this.
If the root word ends in –ce, the /ʃ/ sound is
usually spelt as c – e.g. vice
w/c 16/03/15
(to be tested 23/03/15)
delicious
vicious
precious
fictitious
conscious
suspicious
ambitious
infectious
nutritious
malicious
muscle
neighbour
Year 5 words:
The new National Curriculum has lists of words that the children should know at certain points
in their learning. These are the words that they will currently need to know by the end of Year 5.
accommodate
aggressive
average
definite
environment
forty
immediately
lightning
opportunity
recognise
shoulder
soldier
system
accompany
apparent
bargain
determined
excellent
frequently
individual
muscle
profession
recommend
signature
sufficient
temperature
according
attached
category
develop
explanation
identity
interrupt
neighbour
programme
relevant
sincere
suggest
thorough
achieve
available
competition
dictionary
familiar
immediate
language
occupy
queue
restaurant
sincerely
symbol
vegetable
Ideas for spelling games:
Looking for words inside words, making other related words (for example familiar – unfamiliar, suggest – suggestion)
hangman/scrabble/boggle, finger tracing them in the air/on a hand/in flour or sand etc, making word searches or crosswords,
finding the word in books, making lists of words with same pattern/synonyms or antonyms, writing in different colours etc