Subject: English
Focus: Spellings
Group: Black
Date out: 14.03.16
Date in: 21.03.16
Homophones
 A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another but is spelt differently.
 A homophone can also be spelt the same as another word but have a different meaning.
 ‘Too’ can be remembered as meaning ‘as well as’ because it has a second ‘o’ as well as the first.
 ‘Here’, ‘there’, ‘where’ can be remembered as places because they contain the word ‘here’.
 ‘Hear’ can be remembered because it contains the word ‘ear’.
Copy each word, then try to write it without copying. Use the final column to correct any mistakes or to test each
group of words.
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by
to
there
where
here
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bye
too
their
were
hear
Spelling tip:
buy
two
they’re
wear
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Subject: English
Focus: Spellings
Group: Green and Blue
Date out: 14.03.16
Date in: 21.03.16
Irregular tense changes
Most past tense verbs in English end with ‘-ed’, but many do not. Many do not follow the rule. They are called
Irregular Verbs.
 Vowels are the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’, all other letters are consonants.
 Vowels can make a short sound (‘e’ as in ‘met’) or a long sound (‘e’ as in ‘meet’).
 A suffix is a letter or letters added to the end of a word to make another word.
 Verbs are doing words or actions (run, jump, shout etc).
 Tenses show when something happens and can be past (was, were), present (is, are) or future (will be).
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‘ee’ together make a long ‘e’ sound (ee).
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keep
weep
sleep
creep
sweep
Spelling tip:
For most verbs just add the suffix ‘ing’ to form the present tense.
keeping
weeping
sleeping
creeping
sweeping
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kept
wept
slept
crept
swept
‘eep’ changes to ‘ept’ to form the past tense in these words. Very few words do this.
Subject: English
Focus: Spellings
Group: Yellow and Red
Date out: 14.03.16
Date in: 21.03.16
Silent letters ‘t’, ‘n’
 Many words in English have silent letters.
 Spoken language changes faster than written language.
 The following words have a letter in them which was probably sounded many years ago but no longer is.
 Silent letters are not sounded but are still needed for accurate spelling.
Copy each word, then try to write it without copying. Use the final column to correct any mistakes or to test each
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Silent ‘t’ is often in the letter string ‘stle’.
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castle
nestle
thistle
jostle
rustle
Spelling tip:
Silent ‘t’ is often in the letter string ‘ten’. There are not many of these words.
fasten
listen
christen
glisten
moisten
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condemn
hymn
solemn
column
autumn
Silent ‘n’ always follows ‘m’. There are not many of these words.