Year 6 Literacy homework
The aim of Y6 Class Literacy homework is to reinforce the spelling, grammar,
handwriting and punctuation taught during the week. The work is to be
completed in exercise books.
Each week pupils will be asked to write ten sentences (of between ten and
fifteen words each) incorporating specific words and/or sounds. Pupils will be
encouraged to challenge themselves to find the best words relating to a given
sound and to use more than one of the list words in each sentence. They may
choose words not on the list if they fit the correct criteria i.e. use the same
sound and spelling pattern.
The sentences will also have a given structure, linked to our creative writing
strategy. Pupils’ spelling ability will be tested and monitored via a focused
dictation test.
Week 1 ‘ay’ sounds (sentence focus – capital letters, full stops)
Choose two from each list –
List 1 - clay, display, hurray, pay, spray, sway, yesterday, decay, hay, lay, pray, stay, tray
List 2 – ace, awake, became, behave, blame, brace, brake, crave, create, date, debate, drake, educate,
estate, fake, fame, fate, frame, enrage, lace, operate, pace, place, quake, shake, shame, shave, space,
stage, tame, teenage, trace, wake, wave
List 3 – bait, brain, complaint, faint, rail, sail, saint, taint, wait
List 4 – sleigh, weigh, weight, freight
List 5 – acorn, fable, label, stable
Week 2 ‘ee’ sounds (sentence focus- good words)
Choose two from each list plus two of your own choice –
List 1 – asleep, bee, bleep, breeze, cheep, creep, deep, see, feel, redeem, seem, sleep, steep, sneeze,
squeeze, teem, weep, wheeze
List 2 – beam, beast, beat, bleach, cheap, cheat, cream, defeat, each, eat, feast, flea, gleam, heap, heat,
ice-cream, leap, least, peach. pleat, preach, reach, reap, retreat, scream, seal, seam, seat, steam, team,
wheat, yeast
List 3 – be, he, she, me, we
List 4 – baby, berry, bunny, cherry, ferry, funny, lady, runny, sunny, very
Week 3 ‘igh’ (sentence focus – alliteration)
Choose two from each list –
List 1 – bright, delight, fight, flight, fright, knight, light, midnight, might, night, outright, plight, right,
sight, slight, tight, tonight, upright, uptight
List 2 – advice, airline, alike, alive, arrive, brine, combine, define, dice, dislike, dive, drive, hike, hive,
jive, lice, like, live, mice, mine, nice, recline, pike, price, shine, spike, strike, strive, survive, trike, twine,
valentine, vice, whine, wine
List 3 – dry, shy, sly, spy, sty
List 4 – die, lie, pie, tie
List 5 – behind, bind, blind, grind, remind, rewind, rind, unkind, wind
Week 4 ‘ow’ (sentence focus -‘ing’ starters)
Choose two from each list plus two of your own choice –
List 1 – arrow, flow, own, row, show, sow, thrown
List 2 – alone, bone, console, chose, clone, close, dole, drone, expose, hose, lone, mole, ozone, pole,
prone, propose, provoke, role, sole, smoke, stole, stone, suppose, those, throne, tone, trombone,
xylophone, vole, woke, zone
List 3 – afloat, boast, cloak, coal, coast, cloak, float, foal, goal, gloat, loan, moat, oat, roast, soak, stoat,
throat, toast
List 4 – almost, ghost, host, post, utmost
Week 5 ‘oo’ (sentence focus – similies)
Choose two from each list plus two of your own choice –
List 1 – balloon, boot, brood, cartoon, coop, drool, droop, fool, harpoon, hoot, lagoon, loot, loop,
maroon, mood, school, scoop, scoot, shoot, spoon, stoop, swoop, tool, toot, troop, tycoon, typhoon,
whoop
List 2 – acute, brute, chute, crude, cute, dilute, dispute, dune, exclude, flute, gratitude, June, minute,
mute, nude, pollute, prune, rude, salute, tune
List 3 – chew, stew, drew, crew
List 4 – barbecue, cue, glue, pursue, sue
Week 6 ‘ou’ (sentence focus – short sentences with speech marks)
Choose four from each list plus two of your own choice –
List 1 – announce, bounce, clout, flounce, foul, house, louse, lout, ounce, pounce, pout, pronounce,
scout, snout, spouse, stout, throughout, trout
List 2 – allow, bow, brow, eyebrow, foul, how, growl, meow, owl, pow, prowl, row, scowl, sow, trowel,
vow, vowel, wow