Overview of the Year 5 and Year 6 Spelling Packs
These spelling packs are based on the 2014 NC Word list, Spelling Appendix for Years 5 and 6 and Vocabulary, Grammar and Pu
Year 5
Focus
Autumn 1
Focus
Spring 1
Focus
NC Year 5/6 word NC Year 5/6 word NC Year 5/6 word
list including some list including some list including some NC Year 5/6 word
prefixes and
prefixes and
prefixes and
list including some
suffixes
suffixes
suffixes
suffixes
Week 1
accommodate
accommodation
accommodating
accompany
according
accordance
achieve
achievable
achievement
overachieve
Week 3
attached
attachable
attaching
attachment
unattached
available
unavailable
availability
average
awkward
Week 4
awkwardness
bargain
bargained
bruised
bruising
category
categorise
categorisation
categorisable
categorically
Words ending in - Words ending in ate, plus other
ate and -ise, plus
Words with -ate,
prefixes and
other prefixes and Words ending in plus other suffixes
suffixes
suffixes
ise and -ify
Week 1
immediately
appropriate
appropriately
concentrate
concentrated
concentrating
demonstrate
demonstrated
demonstrative
demonstrating
Week 2
hydrate
hydration
hydrated
dehydrated
dehydration
incriminate
incriminated
investigate
investigation
investigated
Week 3
invigorate
invigoration
reinvigorate
unfortunate
unfortunately
vertebrate
accessory
accessorise
personal
personalise
Adverbials of place
and number and
Endings which
endings which
sound like /ʃəs/
Relative clauses,
sound like /ʃəs/
spelt -cious or adverbs and
spelt -cious or - tious, including any
modal verbs
tious
exceptions
Week 1
Summer 1
Week 2
aggressive
aggressively
amateur
ancient
apparent
apparently
appreciate
appreciative
appreciated
unappreciated
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
enterprise
improvise
summarise
symbolise
turquoise
uprise
utilise
vandalise
classify
classification
Endings which
sound like /ʃəs/
spelt -cious or tious
Week 4
Summer 1
who
which
where
when
whose
that
perhaps
surely
might
should
nearby
secondly
thirdly
fourthly
vice
vicious
grace
gracious
space
spacious
anxious
anxiety
malice
malicious
precious
consciousness
delicious
suspicious
ambition
ambitious
cautious
cautiously
fictitious
infectious
nutrition
nutritious
nutritional
luscious
spacious
atrocious
Year 6
Focus
Autumn 1
Focus
Spring 1
NC Year 5/6 word NC Year 5/6 word
NC Year 5/6 word list including some list including some NC Year 5/6 word
list including some
prefixes and
prefixes and
list including some
suffixes
suffixes
suffixes
suffixes
Week 1
individual
individuality
interfere
interference
interfering
interrupt
interruption
interrupted
language
leisure
Week 2
lightning
marvellous
marvellously
mischief
mischievous
mischievously
muscle
necessary
unnecessary
neighbour
Week 3
nuisance
occupy
reoccupy
occupation
occur
reoccur
opportunity
opportunities
parliament
persuade
Week 4
persuasive
physical
physicality
prejudice
privilege
profession
professional
programme
programming
pronunciation
Words ending in ibly, -(e)able and
adding suffixes
beginning with
Words ending in vowel letters to
Words ending in - able, -ably and - Words ending in - words ending in able and -ity
ible
ible, -ibly and -ably
fer
Week 1
preservable
regrettable
reusable
sealable
sustainable
undesirable
undesirability
Week 2
laughable
respectable
inevitable
arguably
noticeably
regrettably
reliably
Week 3
forcible
gullible
inedible
illegible
inaudible
plausible
resistible
Week 4
impossibly
irresponsibly
changeable
noticeable
referring
referred
preferring
Spring 1
unsuitable
unsuitability
viable
Focus
Summer 1
Homophones
Week 1
complement
compliment
descent
dissent
profit
prophet
stationary
stationery
weather
whether
comfortably
collectible
convertible
sensible
flexibly
inevitably
preferred
transferring
transferred
Grammatical word
mixture
Adverbials
Adverbials and
words ending in ship
Week 2
contrast
consequence
whereas
either
neither
simultaneously
concurrently
nevertheless
contrary
alternatively
Week 3
thoughtfully
frantically
recklessly
enthusiastically
victoriously
sheepishly
inquisitively
hastily
rudely
obnoxiously
Week 4
wearily
solemnly
occasionally
annually
menacingly
ferociously
sorrowfully
exuberantly
worship
flagship
5 and 6 and Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Appendix for Years 5 and 6. The words from the word list and those relating to the spelling
NC Year 5/6 word
list including some NC Year 5/6 word
prefixes and
list including some
suffixes
suffixes
Week 5
cemetery
committee
communicate
communication
miscommunicate
communicable
communicative
community
competition
competitive
Week 6
conscience
conscious
controversy
convenience
convenient
conveniently
correspond
correspondance
critic
criticise
NC Year 5/6 word
NC Year 5/6 word list including some
list including some
prefixes and
suffixes
suffixes
Autumn 2
Words ending in -ify Words beginning
and -ation
with disWeek 5
disqualify
disqualification
identify
identification
justify
justification
purify
purification
solidify
solidification
Week 6
disappeared
disbelieve
discourtesy
disorganise
disapprove
disapproval
discovering
disregarded
distributed
disallowed
Endings which
sound like /ʃəl/,
with exceptions
Endings which
sound like /ʃəl/
Week 5
Week 6
Spring 2
Week 1
critical
critically
curious
curiosity
definite
definitely
definitive
definitively
defined
definition
Week 2
desperate
desperately
desperation
determined
determination
develop
developed
development
redevelop
redevelopment
Words beginning
with dis-
Words beginning
with dis- and de-
Week 1
discussion
discomfort
disgusting
distracted
discretely
disturbing
discovery
dissolves
dismount
distress
Week 2
disobey
discuss
discussion
dispute
disputing
defend
defence
demarcate
devour
defeat
Endings which
sound like /ʃəl/ Words ending in and words ending ancy (continued), in -ant and -ancy
ant and -ance
Week 1
Summer 2
Week 2
antisocial
initial
finance
financial
financially
commerce
commercial
commercially
province
provincial
official
unofficial
officially
special
speciality
superficial
artificial
artificially
partial
partially
Summer 2
NC Year 5/6 word
list including some NC Year 5/6 word
prefixes and
list including some
suffixes
suffixes
Week 5
mispronunciation
queue
queuing
recognise
recognised
recognition
recommend
recommendation
recommended
recommendable
Week 6
relevant
relevance
restaurant
rhyme
rhyming
rhythm
sacrifice
secretary
shoulder
signature
Week 6
deceive
perceive
conceit
deceit
protein
seize
diesel
truancy
blatant
fondant
peasant
reliant
servant
elegant
elegance
radiant
radiance
NC Year 5/6 word
list including some NC Year 5/6 word
prefixes and
list including some
suffixes
suffixes
Autumn 2
Adding suffixes
beginning with
vowel letters, words Words with the
with hyphens and /i:/ sound spelt ei
words with the /i:/
after c (with
sound spelt ei after exceptions), plus
c
ie words
Week 5
employee
referee
preference
co-own
co-operate
co-ordinate
re-enter
confidential
essential
essentially
residential
substantial
torrential
giant
infant
infancy
truant
Week 1
sincere
sincerely
soldier
stomach
sufficient
insufficient
sufficiency
suggest
suggestion
suggested
Week 2
symbol
symbolism
symbolic
system
systematic
systematically
temperature
thorough
thoroughly
twelfth
Words with ie and
words with the
Words with the
ough letter string ough letter string
Spring 2
Week 1
siege
shriek
yield
ought
bought
thought
nought
Week 2
roughest
tough
toughest
cough
enough
though
although
Spring 2
ceiling
receipt
receive
hygiene
pierce
retrieve
Words ending in - Words beginning
ship and words
with auto- and
beginning with autoaeroWeek 5
fellowship
leadership
membership
friendship
ownership
citizenship
scholarship
autograph
autobiography
automatic
Week 6
automatically
autopilot
autopsy
aerobatics
aerobics
aerodrome
aerodynamic
aerosol
aeroplane
aerospace
Summer 2
brought
fought
rough
dough
through
throughout
Words beginning
with aqu(a/e),
trans- and bi-
Words beginning
with bi(continued) and
Literacy
vocabulary
Week 1
aquaplane
aqueduct
aquatic
aquarium
transaction
transmit
transfer
biceps
bicycle
bilingual
Week 2
binoculars
active
passive
comprehension
inference
deduction
prediction
adjective
adverb
antonym
st and those relating to the spelling rules have been spread over the Year 5 and Year 6 lists. See below for the words included over the two pa
NC Year 5/6 word NC Year 5/6 word
NC Year 5/6 word NC Year 5/6 word list including some list including some
list including some list including some
prefixes and
prefixes and
suffixes
suffixes
suffixes
suffixes
Week 3
dictionary
disastrous
disastrously
embarrass
embarrassment
environment
environmentally
equip
equipped
equipment
Words beginning
with deWeek 3
deflate
depart
departure
detect
detective
deserve
desert
dessert
design
deceive
Week 4
especially
exaggerate
exaggerated
exaggeration
excellent
excellence
excel
excelled
existence
explanation
Week 5
self-explanatory
familiar
familiarise
familiarity
familiarisation
foreign
forty
frequently
frequency
government
Week 6
misgovern
governance
guarantee
guaranteed
harass
harassed
harassment
hindrance
identity
immediate
Words beginning Prefixes over- and Words beginning
with misrewith reWeek 4
misbehave
misbehaving
misfortune
misleading
misread
mistype
misinform
mistletoe
mission
mistake
Week 5
overcrowded
overgrown
overthrown
overtake
overspent
reappear
recreate
refresh
refund
repayment
Week 6
repair
removable
resolve
realisation
reliable
reliability
reload
review
recover
reservation
Words ending in - Words ending in - Words ending in - Words ending in ant and -ance
ant and -ance
ance and -ancy
ation
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
tolerant
tolerance
fragrant
fragrance
relevant
relevance
ignorant
ignorance
deodorant
consonant
flamboyant
flamboyance
disturb
disturbance
irrelevant
irrelevance
inherit
inheritance
reassure
reassurance
attend
attendance
avoid
avoidance
nuisance
accountancy
expectancy
importance
inconsistency
vacancy
station
rotation
vacation
relation
variation
operation
allegation
excavation
humiliation
suffocation
NC Year 5/6 word
list including some
Words ending in suffixes and words Words ending in - Words ending in - ency (continued)
ending in -ent
ent and -ence
ence and -ency
and -able
Week 3
variety
variable
vegetable
vehicle
yacht
yachting
detergent
enforcement
enlargement
excitement
Week 4
nourishment
patient
recruitment
resident
subsequent
urgent
coincidence
coincidentally
essence
indulgence
Week 5
insistence
residence
reference
obedience
patience
persistence
violence
consistency
currency
fluency
Words with the Words with silent
ough letter string letters and words Homophones and
and words with ending in -ce and - other words often
silent letters
se
confused
Week 3
borough
plough
drought
doubt
doubtful
island
solemn
Week 4
loch
crumb
succumb
handkerchief
champagne
silhouette
wreckage
Week 5
device
devise
practice
practise
prophecy
prophesy
licence
Week 6
urgency
affordable
believable
collectable
delectable
durable
durability
gable
inexcusable
inseparable
Homophones
Week 6
isle
aisle
aloud
allowed
affect
effect
ascent
thistle
knight
lamb
wreath
advice
advise
license
father
farther
Literacy
vocabulary
Literacy
vocabulary
Literacy
vocabulary
Week 3
apostrophe
article
determiner
clause
compound
conjunction
consonant
vowel
ellipsis
etymology
Week 4
homonym
homophone
infinitive
inflection
morphology
modify
preposition
possessive
pronoun
punctuation
Week 5
subjunctive
grammar
subordination
prefix
suffix
syllable
synonym
tense
imperative
stanza
assent
cereal
serial
Tricky words
Week 6
argument
conscience
definite
embarrass
equipment
necessary
grateful
humorous
leisure
miniature
r the words included over the two packs: