Sumerians Spellings 2014-15
Term
Week
Theme & Activity
1
2&3
Puzzling Plurals – words that change
their spelling when they become more
than one. See website to help,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?filter=bite
size&q=plurals
Present your work to the whole class you
will have time for a 2 minute
presentation
terminus, fungus, larva, gateau,
syllabus, formula, crisis, medium,
handkerchief, louse, sheep, eskimo,
igloo, kangaroo, potato, tomato,
galaxy, century
4
Big and Little - Write advertising
slogans.
Explore words with prefixes and
suffixes for big and small e.g. super
maxi mega ultra extra multi hyper mini ette micro
superlative, maximise, megastar,
ultrasonic, extracurricular,
multilayered, hypersensitive,
miniscule, launderette, microscope
5
One Two Three - Make poster of 3 D
shaped objects and label
primary, unilateral, solitary, biology,
diagraph, duodenum, secondary,
tricycle, quartet, tetrahedron,
quadrilateral, pentagon, sextet,
octopus, decahedron, century,
millipede
Same Difference - Homophones: Words
that sound the same – may or may not be
spelt differently.
Find more of these – select and make
poster to illustrate.
Homographs: Words written the same
but pronounced differently:
read, sow,
roar/raw, paw/poor/pour/pore,
ate/eight, great/grate
Homographs: Words written the same
but pronounced differently:
read, sow,
8
Live and Learn - Look up meanings and
illustrate –ology words – write
prospectus for imaginary university
giving details of the subject you can
study there – find more words
psychology, biology, anthropology,
sociology, radiology, ecology,
phrenology, philology, theology,
musicology, campanology, horology
zoology, archaeology
9
Unstressed vowels - Make visual posters
for chosen words e.g. lemonade – the ‘o’
as bubble; vegetable – a carrot on a
table etc
vegetable, parliament, separate,
mathematics, jewellery February,
history, library, geography, January
10
Round and Round - Collect word lists for
each prefix
cycle cyclic cyclone circumnavigate,
circumference, sphere spherical, rota
rotate, rotation revolve revolution
6&7
Make up a matching game where the
prefix, root and meaning have to be
joined up e.g. as jigsaw, card or
Spellings
Term
Week
Theme & Activity
Spellings
dominoes game
2
11
For and Against - Write argument
either in favour of or against a topical
issue using some of the words, (CBBC
Newsround for weekly issues).
consult, contradiction, convene,
convenient, convenience, antiinflammatory, antihistamine, protect,
provide, prolong, protest propose
12
Phobias - Mime phobias and rest of class
has to match to written ‘phobia’ – find
more words.
agoraphobia, claustrophobia,
arachnophobia, technophobia,
hydrophobia,
1
Thesaurus - Make illustrated thesaurus
page linked to fiction genres e.g.
suspense, adventure, sci-fi
Vocabulary linked to fiction genres
e.g. other words for happily, dark,
adventure, crime
2
Look! - Build a word web from telescope
– building words from each part of the
word
telephone, telegraph, telepathic,
microscope, telescope
3&4
The Body - Label figure with bodylinked vocabulary – find more words
arthritis, pedicure, manicure manual ,
gastronomy, telephone, optometrist,
optician, tactile, fracture, nasal,
anatomy, muscular, respiratory,
digestion, capacity, reproduction
5&6
Earth, Air and Water - Sort words and
work out what prefixes are and mean.
hydrate, hydrofoil, aeroplane,
aerodynamic, agricultural, marine,
mariner, marina, terrestrial ecology,
ecological, geography, geographical,
aquamarine, Aquarius, aquarium,
aquaplane, aquatic
Make poster to illustrate the vocabulary
7
shun zhun ‘words - Sort and say what you mission permission action Asian
notice; find other words
division occasion complexion ocean
suspicion cushion musician fashion
mansion Malaysian decision
8
Qu words - Research how qu came into
our language
9&10 Double Double Toil and Trouble
11
Silent Letters - Practice tongue twister
teasers,
perform these for class and class have
to identify the word with silent letter
e.g.
quill quotation quintessential
grotesque acquire etiquette
acquaintance
correspond, aggression, embarrass,
communication, interrogate,
questionnaire, necessary, possess,
disappoint
Plumber, climb, debt, doubt,
subtle,science, scent, knot, knit,
knife, gnome, gnash, gnaw, sign, ghost,
wheel, rhinoceros, exhibit,
vehicle,should, walk, salmon, hymn,
Term
Week
Theme & Activity
Ghostly ghouls and ghastly ghosts each
gherkins in ghoulish ghettos
Spellings
wrath, wreck, wrong, pneumatic,
raspberry, isle, island, aisle, fasten,
The wretched writer wreaked his wrath
by wrenching the wrinkled wrappers
from the wrecked wrist watches
Write further tongue twisters
Complete a list of word families by
finding (and spelling correctly) minimum
of 5 words for each root word.
3
1
Words using the root word legal
2
Words ending in the letter string -ial
3
Words related in meaning to music
4
Synonyms of mockery
5
Words using root word commit
Resourses
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2
Year 6 Spelling Exersise book – available
from the classroom to take home.
http://www.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.h
tml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsand
pictures/teachers/
Your list will be collected each week
(Monday) to form your groups spelling
test words.