KENWYN CLASS SPELLINGS
SUMMER (FIRST-HALF) 2013
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Week 1 (week starting 15 April)
To explore unstressed vowels in words with more than one syllable
Examples:
company, original, Wednesday, definitely, separate
Idea to try at home: Create a spelling quiz: give a definition of a word and then have four
possible ways of spelling it, of which only one is correct. See the example we do in class.
You need to know: what stressed and unstressed vowels are, such as the difference
between the way we say pet and carpet
Key learning point: think of the root words when you are spelling, for example “Is easly
correct?” “No, because easily comes from easy + ly, with the y changing to an i.”
Week 2 (week starting 22nd April)
To investigate and learn what happens to words that end in e (we
sometimes call it a ‘magic e’) when you add a suffix
Examples:
live – living – lived – lively – lifeless
hope – hoping – hoped – hopeful - hopeless
Idea to try at home: Mix and match the base words, vowel suffixes and consonant suffixes
below to create a list of 25 correct words. For example, rehearse + ed = rehearsed
Base words
Vowel suffixes
Consonant suffixes
care
shame
ing
est
ful
ness
tune
use
ed
ism
ment
love
rehearse
ish
able
ly
nice
save
er
al
less
You need to know: your vowels and consonants
Key learning point: sound it out – if it sounds right, it probably is!
Week 3 (week starting 29th April)
To investigate and learn what happens to words that end in y when you
add a suffix
Examples:
fly – flies – flying, try – tries - trying
Idea to try at home: Start with a root word and then add suffixes to make as many words as
to can. Try to make at least 3 new words for each root. For example: empty – emptiness
emptied – emptying – emptiest.
You need to know: we don’t change the letter y to an i when you add –ing, because it would
be too hard to say! For example, we use marrying, not marriing.
Key learning point: y changes to I when you add the suffixes ness, er, est, ed, ly
Week 4 (week starting 6th May)
To investigate words that fit rules, such as i before e except after c, and
know the exceptions
Examples:
field, brief, quiet, ancient, science, glacier, eight, foreign.
Idea to try at home: Create a quiz game with one correct spelling and one incorrect spelling
for 10 words – can the contestant spot the mistakes?
You need to know: Only ie ends words, only ei begins words.
Key learning point: most words use ie.
Week 5 (week starting 13th May)
To transform words by using prefixes
Examples:
dislike, precaution, rebuild
Idea to try at home: prefixes sorting board – see the sheet
You need to know: prefixes and suffixes are used to change the meaning of words and are
really helpful to expand our word power
Helpful point: try to link this week’s spelling to other work that we have done over the
year of you can.
Week 6 (week starting 20th May)
To transform words by making comparatives and superlatives
Examples:
adding er, est, ish makes a comparative or a superlative, such as great – greater – greatest
Idea to try at home: Create an advert for a new toilet roll, explaining why it is better than all
of the other types that you can buy!
You need to know: we make comparatives and superlatives by adding a different type of
suffix. These are another type of adjective.
Helpful point: like all spellings, the more you can use the terms, the better…how many
times do you use a comparative or superlative in one day?