Spring Term 1 - Group 1 Wk 4 HFW Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Final Check 1. began 2. animals 3. narrator 4. would 5. took Statutory words 6. familiar 7. foreign 8. forty 1) Practise your spellings every evening (check, cover, write then check again). 2) Write your spellings out in a complete sentence in your homework book (Don’t forget to check punctuation ).

WALT: spell words with the suffix -ous Spring Term 1 - Group 2 Wk 4 WALT: spell words with the suffix -ous Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Final Check 1. various 2. dangerous 3. enormous 4. glamorous 5. hideous Statutory word list 6. identity 7. immediate 8. immediately Topic Vocabulary 9. voyage 10. iceberg 11. wreckage Practise your spellings every evening (check, cover, write then check). Write at least 10 of your sentences in your homework book. Use a dictionary to check the meaning.

WALT: spell words with the suffix -ous Spring Term 1 - Group 3 Wk 4 WALT: spell words with the suffix -ous Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Final Check 1. outrageous 2. spontaneous 3. courageous 4. tremendous 5. humorous 6. vigorous Statutory word list 7. identity 8. immediate 9. immediately Topic Vocabulary 10. voyage 11. iceberg 12. wreckage Practise your spellings every evening (check, cover, write then check). Write at least 10 of your sentences in your homework book. Use a dictionary to check the meaning.

Rules & guidance Sometimes the root word is obvious and the usual rules apply for adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters. Sometimes there is no obvious root word. –our is changed to –or before –ous is added. A final ‘e’ of the root word must be kept if the /dʒ/ sound of ‘g’ is to be kept. If there is an /i:/ sound before the –ous ending, it is usually spelt as i, but a few words have e.