Spelling Year 6 Spelling for Grammar Year 6 investigations Spellings Rules/guidance Examples Nouns and adjectives can Magnet magnetise – be turned into verbs by Colony colonise – adding suffixes e.g. Memory memorise –ise, – -ate, -ify. Visual visualise – Hospital hospitalise – Idol idolise – Decoration decorate – Abbreviation abbreviate – Activation activate – Animation animate – Decimation decimate – Formal & informal Some words are more formal than Kids children – vocabulary e.g. ask for others. Bad negative – – request, go in enter & Slang should not be used in formal Good positive – – using the subjunctive. written texts. Go up increase – Go down decrease – Right correct – Wrong incorrect – Cheap inexpensive – Sorry apologies – Mum - mother Revision of spellings, Spelling rules for adding suffixes spelling rules and features Apostrophes from Y3 to Y5 Capital letters Word families Comparatives and superlatives Making nouns, adjectives and verbs from other word classes common exception homonyms and homophones Spelling Year 6 New Spellings for Year 6 Spellings Rules/guidance Examples Endings which sound like Not many common words end like this. vicious, precious, conscious, /ʃəs/ spelt or If the root word ends in the /ʃ/ sound is delicious, malicious, –cious –tious –ce, usually spelt as c e.g. vice vicious, suspicious, ambitious, – –
Spelling Year 6 Spelling for Grammar Year 6 investigations Spellings Rules/guidance Examples Nouns and adjectives can be turned into verbs by adding suffixes e.g. –ise, -ate, -ify. Magnet – magnetise Colony – colonise Memory – memorise Visual – visualise Hospital – hospitalise Idol – idolise Decoration – decorate Abbreviation – abbreviate Activation – activate Animation – animate Decimation – decimate Formal & informal vocabulary e.g. ask for – request, go in – enter & using the subjunctive. Some words are more formal than others. Slang should not be used in formal written texts. Kids – children Bad – negative Good – positive Go up – increase Go down – decrease Right – correct Wrong – incorrect Cheap – inexpensive Sorry – apologies Mum - mother Revision of spellings, spelling rules and features from Y3 to Y5 Spelling rules for adding suffixes Apostrophes Capital letters Word families Comparatives and superlatives Making nouns, adjectives and verbs from other word classes common exception homonyms and homophones Spelling Year 6 New Spellings for Year 6 Spellings Rules/guidance Examples Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious Not many common words end like this. If the root word ends in –ce, the /ʃ/ sound is usually spelt as c – e.g. vice – vicious, vicious, precious, conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious, ambitious,
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