Year 5 Spelling
Programme
Spelling Programme Year 5
This is a termly weekly spelling list, through which all key phonemes, clusters, digraphs or rules are
covered from the National Curriculum September 2014. Key aspects or spelling rules to be focussed on
that week, are indicated in brackets. It is suggested that the children are tested at the start of the
week. This will give an indication as to which words they are confident with and those that require more
attention. These list of words will then be sent home on a Monday evening to be learnt with parents over
the remainder of the week, before the children are retested on a Friday. These words must be drawn
upon throughout the week in other areas of the curriculum, if they are to be embedded.
Autumn Term
Week Beg: 14/09/15
(‘ar’ sound spelt ‘ar and air ssound spelt are )
1. bark
2. barn
3. cart
4. smart
5. start
6. car
7. care
8. rare
9. fare
10. aware
11. beware
12. scare
13. spare
14. stare
15. share
Week Beg: 28/09/15
(‘er’ sound spelt ir; and i_e words)
1. bird
2. third
3. skirt
4. shirt
5. first
6. thirsty
7. fire
8. wire
9. retire
10. inspire
11. expire
12. squire
13. enquire
Week Beg: 21/09/15
(root words)
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act
actor
activity
action
port
portable
porter
export
import
report
scribe
scribble
manuscript
typescript
Week Beg: 05/10/15
(nouns ending in y)
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jelly
penny
berry
cherry
hobby
puppy
baby
lady
gravy
daisy
ivy
posy
story
Week Beg: 12/10/15
(plurals – adding s to nouns; es to nouns ending s,
x, ch, sh; changing y to i and adding es; add s to
nouns when the letter before the y is a vowel)
1. dog
2. dogs
3. elephant
4. elephants
5. dish
6. dishes
7. fox
8. foxes
9. baby
10. babies
11. boy
12. boys
13. trolley
14. trolleys
Week Beg: 19/10/15
(Words ending with a e, i, o, u)
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anaconda
armadillo
buffalo
corgi
cuckoo
dingo
emu
gecko
gnu
kangaroo
koala
kiwi
puma
tarantula
Week Beg: 02/11/15
(Silent letters)
1. lamb
2. thumb
3. doubt
4. subtle
5. solemn
6. autumn
7. thistle
8. whistle
9. knight
10. known
11. knuckle
12. knife
13. wreck
14. wrench
15. sword
16. answer
17. island
18. scissors
19. gnat
20. design
Week Beg: 09/11/15
(unusual plurals)
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loaves
cliffs
men
women
geese
mice
cacti
nuclei
octopi
bacteria
aquaria
bureaux
chateaux
deer
sheep
species
scissors
Week Beg: 16/11/15
(able, ible, ably, ibly used at the end of
words)
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adorable
applicable
considerable
tolerable
tolerably
changeable
noticeable
dependable
comfortable
reasonable
reliable
lovable
horrible
horribly
incredible
incredibly
possible
responsible
terrible
Week Beg: 30/11/15
(oh sound spelt as ow)
arrow
narrow
sparrow
yellow
elbow
pillow
window
follow
hollow
borrow
sorrow
burrow
shadow
shallow
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14.
Week Beg: 23/11/15
(Mnemonics – short phrases or rhymes to help
remember spellings – big elephants can always
undertand small elephants; b-e-c-a-u-s-e)
teacher
library
reel
bicycle
necessary
separate
chocolate
lightning
twelfth
ambitious
vegetable
parallel
government
weight
*this may require a lesson so pupils can learn/write
their own mnemonics to help learn the spellings or
scould be their homework task for the week
Week Beg: 7/12/15
(et at the end of a word – use syllables to help learn
spellings)
1. jacket
2. packet
3. racket
4. ticket
5. cricket
6. wicket
7. thicket
8. locket
9. pocket
10. rocket
11. socket
12. bucket
Spring Term
Week Beg: 14/12/15
(Suffix -ull, -ful, -ully added to root words;
when adding ful to a root word ending y, change y
to i)
1. bull
2. bully
3. full
4. fully
5. pull
6. pully
7. dull
8. gull
9. gully
10. helpful
11. helpfully
12. painful
13. painfully
14. beautiful
15. beautifully
Week Beg: 11/01/15
(Hyphenss and apostrophes. Hyphons used to
join a prefix to a root word and make compound
words – usually adjectives)
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2.
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10.
co-ordinate
co-operate
co-operative
co-own
re-enter
re-entry
re-apply
non-stop
non-starter
non-stick
Week Beg: 04/01/16
(fer + suffixes – adding suffix to words ending
fer, the r is doubled if the fer is stressed e.g.
refer = referred)
1. refer
2. referring
3. referral
4. referred
5. reference
6. referee
7. prefer
8. preferred
9. preferring
10. preference
11. transfer
12. transferring
13. transferred
14. transference
Week Beg: 18/01/15
(Hyphenss and apostrophes. Hyphons used to
join a prefix to a root word and make compound
words – usually adjectives; apostrophes for
contractions)
1. non-committal
2. computer-aided
3. accident-prone
4. well-known
5. bad-tempered
6. don’t
7. can’t
8. couldn’t
9. shouldn’t
10. she’ll
11. they’ll
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Week Beg: 25/01/15
(uf, off, oa, ort, ow spelt as ough)
rough
enough
cough
trough
dough
though
nought
bought
brought
thought
bough
plough
Week Beg: 08/02/15
(same letters different sounds)
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bear
fear
earth
light
eight
weight
bought
bough
shield
lie
pie
your
our
flour
Week Beg: 01/02/15
(ost and oll words)
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post
host
most
almost
roll
toll
stroll
scroll
swollen
Week Beg: 22/02/15
(Homophones – need to understand the difference in
the meaning of the words)
1. aisle
2. isle
3. I’ll
4. aloud
5. allowed
6. bridal
7. bridle
8. cereal
9. seial
10. draft
11. drought
12. steal
13. steel
14. father
15. farther
Week Beg: 29/02/15
(‘us’ sound spelt ious, eous, cious, tious) *when
Week Beg: 07/03/16
(cal, cial, tial at the end of a word)
adding the suffix ious, if the root word ends in ce, there is
usually a c before the ious.
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anxious
curious
furious
previous
victorious
hideous
courteous
vicious
precious
conscious
delicious
malicious
suspicious
ambitious
caustious
fictitious
infectious
nutritious
Week Beg: 14/03/16
(ee sound spelt as ie)
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brief
grief
chief
thief
frieze
field
shield
belief
believe
relief
relieve
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comical
maechanical
clinical
historical
tropical
musical
special
official
artificial
financial
commercial
initial
partial
confidential
essential
Week Beg: 21/03/16
(ei words) *i comes before e except after c or when the sound
is not ee
eight
eighteen
eighty
eightieth
reins
vein
reign
cleigh
weigh
weight
freight
neighbour
height
either
Summer Term
Week Beg: 11/04/16
(ey at the end of a word – use syllables to help
learn spellings)
1. abbey
2. alley
3. valley
4. donkey
5. monkey
6. honey
7. jockey
8. trolley
9. chimney
10. chutney
11. turkey
12. journey
Week Beg: 25/04/16
(words ending ‘magic’ e drop the e when adding a
suffix beginning with a vowel; keep if beginning
with a consonant)
1. shake
2. shaker
3. shaking
4. cure
5. curing
6. curable
7. close
8. closing
9. closed
10. ride
11. riding
12. smile
13. smiling
Week Beg: 09/05/16
(tricky words)
1. enforce
2. competition
3. explanation
4. profession
5. pronunciation
6. persuade
7. frequently
8. immediate
9. equipment
10. development
Week Beg: 18/04/16
(ild/ind words)
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mild (igh sound)
wild (igh sound)
child (igh sound)
bind (igh sound)
find (igh sound)
kind (igh sound)
mind (igh sound)
wind (igh sound)
blind (igh sound)
grind (igh sound)
Week Beg: 03/05/16
(tricky words)
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sacrifice
criticise
muscle
prejudice
privilege
language
sincerely
especially
accident
edge
Week Beg: 16/05/16
(thesaurus work)
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10.
thesaurus
synonym
antonym
opposite
noun
verb
adjective
adverb
example
sample
Week Beg: 23/05/16
(tricky words)
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forty
individual
interfere
recognise
symbol
system
Week Beg: 06/06/16
(revision/recap)
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Week Beg: 13/06/16
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Week Beg: 20/06/16
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Week Beg: 27/06/16
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Week Beg: 04/07/16
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Look Say Cover Write Check
Please use the checksheet below to help your child learn their weekly spellings. If they are secure and can spell the words on three separate
occasions, then please work with them each day only on the words they are having difficulties with.
Word
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday