Year 5

Homophones & Near Homophones

alter
altar
ascent
assent
bridal
bridle
cereal
serial
compliment
complement

Year 6

Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning

interrupt
interfere
intercept
interject
intertwine
interim
internal
intersperse
interloper
interest

Year 5

Homophones & Near Homophones

stationary
stationery
steal
steel
wary
weary
who’s
whose
fate
fete

Year 6

Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning

commit
committee
transmit
submit
commitment
emit
permit
intermittent
omit
unremitting

Year 5

Creating nouns using -ship suffix

membership
ownership
partnership
dictatorship
championship
craftsmanship
fellowship
apprenticeship
citizenship
sponsorship

Year 6

Words with the long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ after c (and exceptions)

deceive
conceive
receive
perceive
ceiling
receipt
protein
caffeine
seize
neither

Year 5

Creating nouns using -ness suffix

happiness
hardness
madness
nastiness
silliness
tidiness
childishness
willingness
carelessness
foolishness

Year 6

Words with a long /e/ sound spelt ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ after c (and exceptions)

siege
niece
grief
chief
fiend
shriek
believe
achieve
convenience
mischievous

Year 5

Creating nouns using -ity suffix

community
curiosity
ability
visibility
captivity
activity
eternity
flexibility
possibility
sensitivity

Year 6

Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in -fer

referring
referred
referral
reference
referee
preferring
preferred
preference
transferring
transference

Year 5

Statutory Spelling
Challenge Words

vegetable
vehicle
bruise
soldier
stomach
recommend
leisure
privilege
occur
neighbour

Year 6

Creating diminutives
using prefixes microor
mini-

minibus
miniskirt
minicam
minibeast
minicab
minimum
microscope
microchip
microphone
microwave

Year 5

Adverbs of
possibility and
frequency

certainly
definitely
possibly
perhaps
probably
frequently
often
occasionally
rarely
always

Year 6

Word families based
on common words,
showing how words
are related in form
and meaning

suggest
digest
congestion
gesture
gestation
lightning
daylight
enlighten
twilight
limelight

Year 5

Words ending
in ‘ment’

equipment
environment
government
parliament
enjoyment
document
management
movement
replacement
statement

Year 6

Word families based
on common words,
showing how words
are related in form
and meaning

temperature
temper
temperament
tempered
variety
vary
variation
varied
variable
variance

Year 5

Modal verbs

can
could
may
might
must
shall
should
will
would
ought

Year 6

Words ending in
-ably

adorably
valuably
believably
considerably
tolerably
changeably
noticeably
dependably
comfortably
reasonably

Year 5

Words with
‘silent’ letters

wrestle
wrapper
island
aisle
debris
mortgage
castle
yacht
guarantee
guilty

Year 6

Words ending in
-able

adorable
valuable
advisable
believable
desirable
excitable
knowledgeable
likeable
changeable
noticeable