Spelling Year 5 Spelling for Grammar Year 5 investigations Spellings Rules/guidance Examples Nouns and adjectives can can be made from adjectives by Happy happiness – be turned into verbs by adding suffixes such as Cheerful cheerfulness –ness – adding suffixes Spellings are modified when the root Cold coldness – e.g. -ate, -ify word ends in y Cruel cruelness –ise, – Tidy - tidiness Weak - weakness Soft softness – Open - openness Aware - awareness Mild - mildness Nervous - nervousness Forgetful - forgetfulness Tired - tiredness Prefixes are used to Root words can be modified to create Agree disagree – change the meanings of word families by changing prefixes Appear disappear – – root words prefixes have meaning. Like dislike – dis-, mis-, over-, re- Comfort discomfort – Understand misunderstand – Believe misbelieve – Behave misbehave – Fire misfire – Hear mishear – Information misinformation – Fill overfill – React overreact – Achieve overachieve – Balance overbalance – Boil overboil – Charge overcharge – Build rebuild – Do redo – reorder – Write rewrite – Consider - reconsider Comparatives and Adding er, est to an adjective gives Red redder reddest – – superlatives can be made comparative and superlative Green greener greenest – – by adding suffixes to Spellings are modified when the root Brave braver bravest – – adjectives adj + er, est, word ends in y Wise wiser wisest – – – Spellings are modifies when the root Strange stranger strangest – – word has a short vowel sound followed Thin thinner - thinnest – by a single consonant Happy happier happiest – – Root word ending in e does not double Dry drier - driest – the e.
Spelling Year 5 Spelling for Grammar Year 5 investigations Spellings Rules/guidance Examples Nouns and adjectives can be turned into verbs by adding suffixes e.g. –ise, -ate, -ify can be made from adjectives by adding suffixes such as –ness Spellings are modified when the root word ends in y Happy – happiness Cheerful – cheerfulness Cold – coldness Cruel – cruelness Tidy - tidiness Weak - weakness Soft – softness Open - openness Aware - awareness Mild - mildness Nervous - nervousness Forgetful - forgetfulness Tired - tiredness Prefixes are used to change the meanings of root words Root words can be modified to create word families by changing prefixes – prefixes have meaning. dis-, mis-, over-, re- Agree – disagree Appear – disappear Like – dislike Comfort – discomfort Understand – misunderstand Believe – misbelieve Behave – misbehave Fire – misfire Hear – mishear Information – misinformation Fill – overfill React – overreact Achieve – overachieve Balance – overbalance Boil – overboil Charge – overcharge Build – rebuild Do – redo – reorder Write – rewrite Consider - reconsider Comparatives and superlatives can be made by adding suffixes to adjectives – adj + er, est, Adding er, est to an adjective gives comparative and superlative Spellings are modified when the root word ends in y Spellings are modifies when the root word has a short vowel sound followed by a single consonant Root word ending in e does not double the e. Red – redder – reddest Green – greener – greenest Brave – braver – bravest Wise – wiser – wisest Strange – stranger – strangest Thin – thinner - thinnest Happy – happier – happiest Dry – drier - driest