Long Term Spelling Plan
Year 6
L.O: to add ‘s’ or ‘ies’ when making plurals
A
engines
castles
visitors
stripes
bodies
cities
families
of
that
the
was
all
are
as
be
B
attempts
carriages
castles
creatures
engines
structures
hedges
materials
selects
stripes
visitors
bodies
cities
families
properties
L.O: to add ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to past tense verbs
A
B
stretched
camped
camped
finished
finished
echoed
slipped
stretched
stopped
designed
trapped
rehearsed
survived
slipped
came
stopped
have
trapped
my
released
new
involved
one
survived
said
replaced
she
arrived
C
creatures
engines
foundations
hedges
materials
pieces
attempts
carriages
castles
bodies
cities
families
properties
varieties
carries
C
transported
transformed
uncoiled
remained
designed
disappeared
grabbed
occurred
planned
required
excited
disguised
released
illuminated
L.O: to spell words ending in the suffix ‘cious’
If the root word ends in ‘ce’ like grace or space then it will usually use the ‘cious’ ending
Exception: anxious
A
scrumptious
delicious
precious
suspicious
vicious
so
they
two
when
went
B
tenacious
scrumptious
conscious
precious
unconscious
suspicious
delicious
vicious
spacious
anxious
ferocious
audacious
atrocious
vivacious
malicious
C
tenacious
scrumptious
conscious
anxious
unconscious
suspicious
delicious
vicious
spacious
gracious
ferocious
audacious
subconscious
auspicious
precocious
L.O: to spell words ending in the suffix ‘tious’
Exception: anxious
A
B
C
scrumptious
scrumptious
contentious
contentious
cautious
cautious
ambitious
ambitious
nutritious
nutritious
cautious
pretentious
pretentious
ambitious
infectious
infectious
nutritious
fractious
fractious
you
superstitious
superstitious
about
vexatious
vexatious
back
propitious
propitious
because
fictitious
fictitious
been
ostentatious
facetious
before
pretentious
surreptitious
by
unpretentious
conscientious
L.O: to add the suffix ‘cial’
‘cial’ is common after a vowel letter (a, e, i, o & u)
A
social
special
official
financial
crucial
artificial
glacial
racial
beneficial
provincial
A
potential
essential
initial
partial
martial
does
haven’t
enough
through
were
B
financial
crucial
artificial
glacial
racial
beneficial
provincial
Social
Special
Crucial
Official
Superficial
Judicial
Commercial
antisocial
C
financial
crucial
artificial
glacial
racial
beneficial
provincial
judicial
Superficial
Unofficial
Especial
Sacrificial
multiracial
Prejudicial
Psychosocial
L.O: to add the suffix ‘tial’
‘tial’ is common after a consonant letter.
B
C
martial
martial
confidential
confidential
influential
influential
torrential
torrential
palatial
palatial
evidential
evidential
insubstantial
insubstantial
celestial
celestial
presidential
presidential
sequential
sequential
circumstantial
circumstantial
preferential
interstitial
differential
existential
residential
experiential
inconsequential
quintessential
L.O: to spell words ending in ‘ant’ (and other commonly misspelled words)
A
important
significant
servant
assistant
constant
tenant
pleasant
their
there
they
B
constant
tenant
pleasant
brilliant
applicant
inhabitant
accountant
dominant
descendant
reluctant
irrelevant
ignorant
your
you’re
beautiful
C
constant
significant
pleasant
brilliant
applicant
inhabitant
accountant
dominant
descendant
participant
inhabitant
extravagant
received
frightened
different
L.O: to use identify and spell the ‘ance’ grapheme and other commonly
misspelled words
A
B
C
advance
advance
balance
balance
distance
distance
performance
performance
circumstance
circumstance
advance
attendance
attendance
balance
resistance
resistance
distance
acceptance
acceptance
dance
disturbance
disturbance
finance
annoyance
reassurance
glance
ambulance
maintenance
stance
alliance
surveillance
when
when
though
went
went
thorough
want
want
throughout
L.O: to spell the ‘ancy’ grapheme and other commonly misspelled words
A
B
C
fancy
tenancy
vacancy
truancy
vibrancy
infancy
expectancy
didn’t
interesting
alright
pregnancy
expectancy
vacancy
accountancy
truancy
occupancy
consultancy
discrepancy
militancy
tenancy
vacancy
vibrancy
happened
believed
decided
pregnancy
expectancy
vacancy
accountancy
truancy
occupancy
consultancy
discrepancy
militancy
malignancy
buoyancy
poignancy
tomorrow
telephone
sombre
L.O: to investigate the
spelling and meaning of
prefixes
C
advantage
advertise
almost
believe
disappeared
disturbed
circumnavigate
misjudge
ensure
important
injured
invention
involved
prevent
process
produce
revise
remember
illegal
transformed
transported
uncoiled
unusual
L.O: to investigate the /ee/ sound
A
accuracy
disease
emergency
essential
healthy
noisy
ready
sunny
sealed
beeping
B
accuracy
disease
emergency
essential
healthily
noisy
ready
sunny
sealed
beeping
currency
urgency
agreement
competency
fluency
L.O: know when to use /ie/ or /ei/
sleigh
weight
A
achieve
believe
brief
pierce
ceiling
eight
receive
weird
very
please
weird
B
achieve
believe
brief
pierce
ceiling
eight
receive
weird
vein
receipt
weight
height
beautiful
soldiers
taking
C
accuracy
disease
emergency
essential
healthily
sealed
kneeled
currency
urgency
agreement
competency
fluency
evaluation
scheming
emotional
height
beige
C
achieve
believe
brief
pierce
ceiling
eight
receive
weird
vein
beige
height
neighbour
weight
destroyed
sword
L.O: to spell word with ‘ly’ endings
B
C
actually
smoothly
carefully
perfectly
highly
gently
supply
gingerly
smoothly
gradually
perfectly
intelligently
gently
generally
gingerly
importantly
gradually
extremely
extremely
frequently
generally
approximately
importantly
physically
mostly
thoroughly
unfortunately
particularly
L.O: to spell the ‘ent‘ grapheme and other commonly misspelled words
A
event
student
moment
present
patient
extent
comment
don’t
didn’t
wouldn’t
B
agreement
movement
recent
accident
employment
treatment
environment
department
equipment
involvement
assessment
argument
don’t
didn’t
wouldn’t
C
agreement
movement
recent
accident
employment
treatment
environment
parliament
arrangement
requirement
commitment
management
don’t
didn’t
wouldn’t
L.O: to spell the ‘ence‘ grapheme and other commonly misspelled words
A
evidence
difference
experience
influence
defence
science
sentence
children
friend
evening
B
evidence
difference
experience
influence
defence
science
sentence
intelligence
existence
violence
independence
excellence
surprise
doesn’t
decided
C
science
sentence
intelligence
existence
violence
independence
excellence
correspondence
obedience
negligence
convenience
interference
aeroplane
zeppelin
tomorrow
L.O: to spell the ‘ency‘ grapheme and other commonly misspelled words
A
agency
currency
urgency
emergency
frequency
presidency
decency
soldier
where
were
B
regency
excellency
agency
currency
urgency
emergency
competency
fluency
constituency
deficiency
contingency
proficiency
wear
were
where
C
regency
excellency
agency
currency
urgency
emergency
competency
fluency
insurgency
transparency
inefficiency
immunodeficiency
wear
were
where
L.O: to spell the ‘able‘ grapheme and other commonly misspelled words
The –able ending is usually (but not always) used if a complete root word can be heard before it
A
adorable
capable
miserable
enjoyable
remarkable
reliable
when
went
too
to
B
miserable
enjoyable
remarkable
reliable
disposable
comfortable
employable
vegetable
probable
remarkable
foreign
went
know
too
to
C
miserable
enjoyable
remarkable
reliable
disposable
comfortable
employable
vegetable
probable
replaceable
inexcusable
foreign
government
too
to
L.O: to spell the ‘ible‘ grapheme and other commonly misspelled words
A
audible
credible
edible
flexible
horrible
impossible
terrible
though
sometimes
because
B
flexible
horrible
impossible
terrible
possible
audible
invincible
sensible
visible
accessible
destructible
responsible
although
sometimes
because
C
flexible
horrible
impossible
terrible
possible
audible
invincible
sensible
visible
reversible
indestructible
susceptible
although
contrary
because
L.O: to spell the ‘ably‘ ending and other commonly misspelled words
A
probably
notably
comfortably
reasonably
remarkably
arguably
suitably
goes
does
doesn’t
B
remarkably
arguably
suitably
considerably
inevitably
preferably
noticeably
reliably
presumably
predictably
admirably
regrettably
weren’t
doesn’t
shouldn’t
C
remarkably
arguably
suitably
considerably
inevitably
preferably
noticeably
reliably
inescapably
uncontrollably
inexplicably
unavoidably
weren’t
doesn’t
couldn’t
L.O: to revise the spelling rules taught so far
A
vicious
precious
cautious
crucial
potential
brilliant
balance
moment
caught
Mrs
B
ferocious
spacious
C
subconscious
anxious
ambitious
special
confidential
assistant
distance
treatment
remarkable
impossible
arguably
nutritious
superficial
sequential
inhabitant
resistance
employment
remarkable
impossible
arguably
kitchen
cousin
evening
knee
Wednesday
autumn
L.O: to spell ful, less and
ly suffixes.
C
available
beautiful
careful
carefully
colourful
effortless
hopeful
regardless
successful
wonderful
insightful
woeful
unfortunately
consequently
effortlessly
L.O: to spell words with double consonants
Red
sunny
still
press
million
follow
difficult
common
different
slippery
pollution
Blue
accommodate
common
different
difficult
excellent
million
opposite
passenger
pollution
successful
Green
opposite
passenger
pollution
successful
apprehensive
common
different
aggressive
apprehensively
accommodation
L.O: to spell word with silent letters
Red
ghost
wreck
soften
castles
answer
climbing
designed
different
honour
should
L.O: to spell words with
the unstressed ‘al’ and
‘ive’ endings
digital
essential
festival
individual
original
physical
special
cyclical
mental
apprehensive
destructive
expensive
survive
Blue
castles
answer
climbing
designed
different
honour
interesting
league
knowledge
should
Green
environment
designed
different
honour
interesting
league
knowledge
known
physical
wrestling
L.O: to spell words with
the ‘tion’ and ‘ious’
endings
C
completion
destination
direction
foundations
generation
invention
pollution
question
ferocious
glorious
infectious
mysterious
obvious
precious
constructive
previous
massive
serious
L.O: to spell common
homophones
C
heard
herd
weight
wait
where
wear
witch
which
hear
here
there
their
they’re
to
two
too
WE NEED TO SPELL WORDS WITH HYPHENATED
PRREFIXES IN THE LAST WEEK BEFORE THE TESTS!