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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 1
Spelling theme: -cious endings
This week’s spellings: precious, vicious, conscious, malicious,
suspicious, delicious, gracious, ferocious
Appetiser: Write a silly sentence for each word to explain its
meaning.
Starter: Write a crossword clue to define each word.
Main Course: Draw a picture that defines each word and label it
with the correct spelling.
Dessert: Write pyramid words for each spelling, adding one letter at
a time.
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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 2
Spelling theme: -tious endings
This week’s spellings: ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious,
nutritious, scrumptious, conscientious, superstitious
Appetiser: Write out your spellings in bubble writing or cartoonstyle!
Starter: Spell out the words in Skittles, Smarties, counters, beads,
buttons, Lego bricks or anything else you have.
Main Course: Play hangman with a partner using these words.
Dessert: Write rainbow words for each spelling.
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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 3
Spelling theme: -cial word endings
This week’s spellings: official, special, artificial, beneficial,
commercial, financial, superficial, special
Appetiser: Make flash cards for each word that you can test
yourself and a partner with.
Starter: Play charades with a partner where you act out a clue for
the spelling.
Main Course: Make some playing card size spelling cards and play
snap with a partner. Write out two of each and spell one incorrectly –
can you correct the mistake?
Dessert: Write pyramid words for each spelling, adding one letter at
a time.
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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 4
Spelling theme: -tial word endings
This week’s spellings: partial, confidential, essential, impartial,
influential, potential, partial, palatial
Appetiser: Write out each spelling in a different font and colour.
Starter: Spell out the words in Skittles, Smarties, counters, beads,
buttons, Lego bricks or anything else you have.
Main Course: Play hangman with a partner using these words.
Dessert: Write out each word on a card and arrange them in
alphabetical order. Can you make up a sentence for each one?
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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 5
Spelling theme: Words ending in -ant, -ance and -ancy
This week’s spellings: observant, observance, expectant, expectancy,
hesitant, hesitancy, tolerant, tolerance, substance
Appetiser: Write out your spellings in bubble writing or cartoon-style!
Starter: Write a crossword clue
dictionary to help, or
Main Course: Play snap with a partner,
your words on little cards.
for each of the spellings, using a
independently.
once you’ve written out
Dessert: Write out the words on cards and play bingo. You have to say the words
from memory, but you get three chances to get it right and can write it down for
practice too!
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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 6
Spelling theme: Words ending in -ent, -ence and -ency
This week’s spellings: innocent, innocence, decent, decency,
frequent, frequency, confident, confidence
Appetiser: Draw a pyramid with eight layers. Write out each word
on each different tier of the pyramid. Colour each one differently.
Starter: Spell out the words in Skittles, Smarties, counters, beads,
buttons, Lego bricks or anything else you have.
Main Course: Go through some magazines and papers to cut out
letters that will make the spellings. Make a poster from them.
Dessert: Write out each word on paper, fold them up and put them
in a bowl. With a partner, take it in turns to have a go at spelling the
words. Do it to music, if you like!
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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 7
Spelling theme: -ant and -ent endings (plus variants)
This week’s spellings: assistant, assistance, obedient,
obedience, independent, independence, interdependent,
interdependence
Appetiser: Write out your spellings in bubble writing or cartoonstyle!
Starter: Spell out the words in Skittles, Smarties, counters, beads,
buttons, Lego bricks or anything else you have.
Main Course: Play hangman with a partner using these words.
Dessert: Write rainbow words for each spelling.
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Term: Autumn 1
Week: 8
Spelling theme: Revision of Autumn 1 spelling patterns
This week’s spellings: crucial, residential, torrential, brilliance,
existence, tenacious, voracious, fractious
Appetiser: Write a short story using all of your words.
Starter: Cut out the letters you need to spell these words from
magazines and newspapers. Arrange them correctly and make it into
a poster.
Main Course: Write a crossword clue for each of the spelling
definitions.
Dessert: Do a LOOK, COVER, WRITE, CHECK practice with each of
the words.
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 1
Spelling theme: Words ending in -able and -ably
This week’s spellings: adorable, adorably, considerable,
considerably, tolerable, tolerably, changeable, changeably,
noticeable, noticeably
Appetiser: Play target practice, setting yourself a target total. Write all the words
out and attach them to the wall. Use a soft ball or tennis ball to hit the word, turn
around and try to spell them. If you hit your target, give yourself a treat.
Starter: Play Flip it – Say it – Write it. Write out the spellings on paper and cut
them out. Lay them all out face down, choose one at a time. Turn it over, say the
word to yourself and try to write it on a notepad. If you get it right, give yourself a
point. Over the week, can you improve your score?
Main Course: Can you write a sentence for each spelling, trying to put it into a
subordinate clause with a brilliant conjunction?
Dessert: Can you write a rhyming pair of sentences (couplet) for each word? Use a
thesaurus online to find rhyming words if you are stuck.
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 2
Spelling theme: Adding -able to root words
This week’s spellings: dependable, comfortable,
understandable, reasonable, enjoyable, reliable, believable,
advisable
Appetiser: Write out your spellings in bubble writing or cartoon-style!
Starter: Can you write some expanded noun phrases which use this week’s
spellings? They can be sensible or silly.
Main Course: Arrange the words in a wordsearch for a friend, and your
friend (or mum, dad, grandparent, sister, brother etc) can do it too. Then, you
swap, find the words and re-write them in a list.
Dessert: Use the voice recorder app on your phone or tablet or computer.
Say each word and the spelling, and keep the recording to practise with during
the week. You could use a different accent or voice each time!
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 3
Spelling theme: Words ending in -ible/ibly
This week’s spellings: possible, possibly, horrible, horribly,
terrible, terribly, visible, visibly
Appetiser: Do a LOOK, COVER, WRITE, CHECK until you feel confident with
these spellings. Once you are, wait a couple of days and try again. If you can
still do it, you know them well!
Starter: Can you write a sentence for each spelling which also includes a
fronted adverbial?
Main Course: Write a crossword clue for each of the spellings. Use a
dictionary to help if you want to.
Dessert: Write out all the words and hide them in the house, playground or
garden. Play a treasure hunt and see if you can swap, so that you get to be
both the hider and the seeker! Each time a word is found, you get a treat if
you can spell the word without looking.
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 4
Spelling theme: More words ending in -ible/ibly
This week’s spellings: accessible, defensible, destructible,
forcibly, gullible, invincible, responsibly, incredibly
Appetiser: Make flashcards for each spelling to help you learn them. Practise
as often as you can with a friend or another adult.
Starter: Can you write a sentence for each spelling which includes a
prepositional or adverbial phrase?
Main Course: Can you write a sentence for each spelling which includes a
main clause, a conjunction and a subordinate clause?
Dessert: Can you write a sentence for each spelling which is in the active and
passive voice? Try and write four active sentences and four passive sentences.
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 5
Spelling theme: Words including -fer
This week’s spellings: referring, referred, referral, prefer,
preferring, preferred, transferral, transferring, transferred
Appetiser: Draw a centipede with a hundred sections (you can do it bit-by-bit). Over the week,
fill every section with the words in order until it is complete. You could colour-code it too!
Starter: Draw an octopus with eight tentacles. Write each word in a tentacle in alphabetical
order. Have a go every day until you have a whole octopus family!
Main Course: Draw out a big square. Over the week, starting from the outside edge, try filling it
with all the spellings until you get right to the middle!
Dessert: Write out all the words and hide them in the house, playground or garden. Play a
treasure hunt and see if you can swap, so that you get to be both the hider and the seeker! Each
time a word is found, you get a treat if you can spell the word without looking.
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 6
Spelling theme: Words including -fer
This week’s spellings: reference, referee, preference,
transference, inferred, inference, indifference
Appetiser: Use grains or rice or pasta pieces to write out the spellings.
Starter: Can you write a sentence for each spelling which also includes a
preposition or prepositional phrase?
Main Course: Can you write a sentence for each spelling which includes a
modal verb?
Dessert: Can you find a synonym and an antonym for each spelling and put
the spelling and its synonym into a multi-clause sentence? (This would be
fantastic if you can!)
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 7
Spelling theme: Hyphens to join a prefix to a root word
This week’s spellings: co-ordinate, co-operate, co-existence, reenter, re-write, non-attendance, non-specific, re-encounter
Appetiser: Can you use your hands or body to make the letters you need to
spell these words? For example, making an ‘A’ by putting your middle fingers
together in a triangle.
Starter: Using post-it notes, write each spelling down and go and put the
note somewhere in the house. Whoever finds it has to spell it, and so do you.
Whoever gets it quickest gets a point and the winner over the week gets a
treat!?
Main Course: Give the list of spellings to someone else. Get them to trace all
the letters of the word on your back, and you have to guess the word. Then,
swap!
Dessert: Write out all the words and hide them in the house, playground or
garden. Play a treasure hunt and see if you can swap, so that you get to be
both the hider and the seeker! Each time a word is found, you get a treat if
you can spell the word without looking.
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Term: Autumn 2
Week: 8
Spelling theme: Words including -cei
This week’s spellings: deceive, conceive, receive, perceive,
ceiling, receipt, conceited, deceit
Appetiser: Write out some rows of blanks, as if you were going to play
hangman. Fill in half of the spaces, then, without looking, try to fill in all the
blanks. The next day, try again, this time taking even more letters away for
you to see if you know!
Starter: Can you write a multi-clause sentence using these spellings? Could
you write a paragraph that includes all of them?
Main Course: Play ‘Spell and Eat’. While you are making your breakfast, a
snack or evening meal, see if you can spell all the words. For example, if you
are chopping carrots why don’t you cut it into the same number of pieces as
letters in the word and spell the word?
Dessert: Play Ball toss. With a partner, choose a word to
spell. Throw the ball back and forth, adding a letter each
time. Whoever gets the ball on the last letter of the word
gets a point. Whoever gets the most points is the winner!