Year 5 Spellings

2014 Curriculum

2014 Curriculum

2014 Curriculum

Support for Spelling: Objectives Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 - To spell unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words - To spell words with common letter strings and different pronunciations, e.g. ough in cough, tough, ought - Extend the knowledge of spelling strategies and apply to high frequency and cross-curricular words - To explore the spelling patterns of consonants and to formulate rules - To explore less common prefixes and suffixes, e.g. -ian, im, il To investigate and learn spelling rules for adding suffixes to words ending in e. e.g live, living, lively, happy, happiness, happier To identify word roots, derivations and spelling patterns as a support for spelling

Memory strategies Strategy Explanations Syllables To learn a word I can listen to how many syllables there are so I can break it into smaller bits to remember fan-tas-tic, pa-per Base Words To learn a word I can find its base word hoping = hope+ing Analogy To learn a word I can use words that I already know to help me could, would, should Mnemonics To learn my word I could make up a sentence to help me remember it o u lucky duck , there is a rat in separate, 1 collar 2 sleeves

Visualising vocabulary