Spelling Focus: useful topic words/patterns to revise
Week beginning-22/2/16
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
volcano
volcanoes
extreme
extremely
environment
environmentally
erupt
natural
regions
natural
earthquake
mountains
mountainous
Also: find at least 2 other words
ending in ‘o’ which end in ‘es’ for
the plural.
Challenge 1
Also: find at least 3 other words
ending in ‘e’ which keep the ‘e’
when adding the ‘ly’ suffix’.
Challenge 2
Also: find at least 3 other words
ending in ‘e’ which have the ‘ous’
suffix without changing the root
word.
Challenge 3
volcano
volcanoes
extreme
extremely
environment
environmentally
erupt
natural
regions
natural
earthquake
mountains
mountainous
Also: find at least 2 other words
ending in ‘o’ which end in ‘es’ for
the plural.
Also: find at least 3 other words
ending in ‘e’ which keep the ‘e’
when adding the ‘ly’ suffix’.
Also: find at least 3 other words
ending in ‘e’ which have the ‘ous’
suffix without changing the root
word.
Spelling Focus: revise plural endings
Week beginning-29/2/16
Root words ending in ‘y’ where the ‘y’ is dropped and replaced with –ies’
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
fly/flies
city/cities
army/armies
story/stories
berry/berries
fairy/fairies
marry/marries
quarry/quarries
colony/colonies
fantasy/fantasies
currency/currencies
minority/minorities
century/centuries
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘y’ which use the
–ies plural ending.
Also: find at least 3 other root
words ending in ‘y’ which use the
–ies plural ending.
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
fly/flies
city/cities
army/armies
story/stories
berry/berries
fairy/fairies
marry/marries
quarry/quarries
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘y’ which use the
–ies plural ending.
Also: find at least 3 other root
words ending in ‘y’ which use the
–ies plural ending.
Also: find at least 4 other root
words ending in ‘y’ which use the
-ies plural ending.
Challenge 3
colony/colonies
fantasy/fantasies
currency/currencies
minority/minorities
century/centuries
Also: find at least 4 other root
words ending in ‘y’ which use the
–ies plural ending.
Spelling Focus: revise plural endings
Week beginning-7/3/16
Root words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’where the ‘f’ is dropped and replaced with –ves’
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
half/halves
leaf/leaves
life/lives
elf/elves
wolf/wolves
knife/knives
wife/wives
scarf/scarves
dwarf/dwarves
thief/thieves
relief/relieves
grief/grieves
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ which
use the –ves plural ending.
Challenge 1
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ which
use the –ves plural ending.
Challenge 2
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ which use
the –ves plural ending.
Challenge 3
half/halves
leaf/leaves
life/lives
elf/elves
wolf/wolves
knife/knives
wife/wives
scarf/scarves
dwarf/dwarves
thief/thieves
relief/relieves
grief/grieves
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ which
use the –ves plural ending.
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ which
use the –ves plural ending.
Also: find at least 2 other root
words ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ which use
the –ves plural ending.
Spelling Focus: revise plural endings
Week beginning-14/3/16
A combination of plural endings
***You must learn the root word and identify the correct plural ending.***
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
puff
fairy
fox
light
knife
roof
cliff
colony
dwarf
atlas
tomato
relief
sheriff
similarity
photograph
genius
handkerchief
reflex
Learn the root word and
identify/learn the plural ending.
You will be tested on both.
Challenge 1
Learn the root word and
identify/learn the plural ending.
You will be tested on both.
Challenge 2
Learn the root word and
identify/learn the plural ending.
You will be tested on both.
Challenge 3
puff
fairy
fox
light
knife
roof
cliff
colony
dwarf
atlas
tomato
relief
sheriff
similarity
photograph
genius
handkerchief
reflex
Learn the root word and
identify/learn the plural ending.
You will be tested on both.
Learn the root word and
identify/learn the plural ending.
You will be tested on both.
Learn the root word and
identify/learn the plural ending.
You will be tested on both.
Spelling Focus: Revising words
Week beginning-21/3/16
Improving our spelling skills
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
Identify and learn at least 4
words you have not spelt
correctly in your work:
Identify and learn at least 6
words you have not spelt
correctly in your work:
Identify and learn at least 8
words you have not spelt
correctly in your work:
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Challenge 3
Identify and learn at least 4
words you have not spelt
correctly in your work:
Identify and learn at least 6
words you have not spelt
correctly in your work:
Identify and learn at least 8
words you have not spelt
correctly in your work:
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8