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Spelling Year 6 KS2. Support on spelling for kids with Super Brainy Beans. Primary homework help with worksheet downloads and online games.

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If you find the spellings difficult in your year then try starting with spellings from the year below. It's ok to work lower than the year you are on and fill the gaps rather than struggling at your level without understanding the basics.

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Download and print out our spelling worksheets for Year 6. 360 words especially selected for kids in Year 6, KS2.

• Uses the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check method.
• Covers all the essential words to learn in Year 6.
• Print at home.

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Learning spellings

Practice your spellings for four days then get someone to test you on the fifth day without looking at the words first.

Spell all 40 common words

Throughout Year 6 children are expected to learn how to spell the 40 new words which are commonly used in reading and writing.

Suffixes able & ible

Suffixes are groups of letters that can be added to a root word. Suffixes change the meaning of a word to make a new word.

Words ending in able or ible , shows something can be done.

break able fashion able like able reason able

poss ible vis ible incred ible terr ible sens ible

able or ible at the end of the word?

There is an easy way of working this out by taking away the ending and seeing if you have a root word. notice able Notice is a true word so we use able .

poss ible Poss is not a word so we use ible .

Suffixes cial & tial

Use cial in a word when it comes after any of the vowels.

spe cial offi cial so cial

Use tial in a word when it comes after a consonant.

poten tial essen tial par tial

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Prefixes micro & mini

A prefix is a group of letters that are added to a root word. Prefixes change the meaning of a word to make a new word.

Words beginning with the prefix micro or mini , mean small.

mini bus mini beast micro chip

Words with ce

These words contain ce .

ce lebrate ce rtificate sacrifi ce

Words with ie or ei

These words contain ee sound spelt ie or ei .

bel ie ve dec ei ve c ei ling

Words with ou or ow

These words have ou or ow .

wind ow kn ow n sh ou lder

Homophones are words that sound the same but mean different things. It's important which spelling you should use.

advice / advise practice / practise device / devise

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30 Spelling Activities for ANY List of Words

• March 6, 2020

We work hard to teach our students the correct way to spell words.  We spend countless hours creating spelling practice activities that are fun and not just writing the word multiple times.  Are you ready to get some of those hours back?!  Take a look at these fabulous EDITABLE Spelling Activities we have created for your students to practice their word lists.

Our Spelling Activities are super simple to use!!!

• Enter your spelling list into the first page of the packet.
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• Print those activities.

These spelling activities can be sent home as homework, used in a word work center, or as independent practice. You can find all of our editable spelling activities, (general, seasonal, and holiday-themed) on Education to the Core Premium. Join today as a monthly or annual member for instant access to this resource and thousands more.

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1. spelling list.

This is the page where you will type in your spelling words (up to 15 words).  It can be sent home for students to study during the week, as well as for parents to cut apart and use as flashcards.

2. MAGIC WORDS

Write each spelling word in white crayon, then color over with a marker to watch them “magically” appear.

3. ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Write each spelling word in ABC order.

4. RAINBOW SPELLING

5. WRITE A SENTENCE

6. SECRET CODE

7. ROLL A SPELLING WORD

Roll the dice to see which way you are going to practice your spelling words.  Which number did you roll the most?

8. WORD ILLUSTRATIONS

Students choose 4 different spelling words to illustrate. As an extension, can they write a sentence to go with the picture?

9. TRACE WORDS

Practice each word as you trace it with different writing tools.

10. EMOJI SPELLING

11. PATTERN BLOCK SPELLING

12. VOWELS AND CONSONANTS

13. SCRABBLE SPELLING

14. SPIN IT — SPELL IT

15. SPELLING MAZE

16. SPELLING SPIRAL

17. SPELLING WORD SYLLABLES

Students practice separating their spelling words into syllables. Count on fingers, clap your hands, or stomp your feet to see how many syllables are in each word. Then circle the corresponding number.

18. SILLY WRITING

19. PYRAMID SPELLING

20. SPELLING RHYMES

21. SPELLING COLORS

22. WORD SEARCH

For your higher-level kiddos, this word search is great! They write their words either across, down, or as a challenge, diagonal on the grid. Then place random letters among the words. Share with a partner to see if they can find all of your “hidden” words!

23. WORD ART

24. CREATE A STORY

How many spelling words can your students include in a story? Write a short story that makes sense and illustrate it.

25. KEYBOARD WORDS

26. STAMPING SPELLING WORDS

Everybody loves dot markers! Grab a few different colors and stamp your spelling words as you read them.

27. SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS

For a more challenging activity, connect spelling practice with vocabulary work by finding a synonym and antonym for each spelling word.

28. SIGN LANGUAGE SPELLING

29. How Many Sounds

30. Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling

Perfect for partner spelling activities. Your students can each take a color and play tic-tac-toe with their spelling words.

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Year 6 Spelling: Worksheets and Activities

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Teaching your Year 6 class can sometimes bring a wave of mixed emotions. You have watched them from the very beginning of their journey, and now it’s time for them to move on to even bigger and better things. As students enter their last year of primary school. Teachers are getting them ready for what’s to come. And that includes spelling!

Year 6 spelling on the National Curriculum:

As said in our Year 5 blog, Year 5 & 6 share the same statutory spelling lists and requirements on the National Curriculum . This makes it easier for students to fully learn all the content on the national curriculum.

What Year 6 focuses on

In Year 6, students will go over everything previously learnt in other years. Additionally, Year 6 students will continue learning material that they were introduced to in Year 5.

• Using the thesaurus
• Using more prefixes
• Using more suffixes

How Year 6 spelling is taught

Like every other year group, Year 6’s will be given lists of 10-20 words to learn each week. Students in Year 6 are expected to do independent learning, this is a practice that they will have to get used to for higher education.

Additionally, promoting independent studying creates a sense of routine and discipline that allows children to learn how to prioritise and time manage their activities.

Teacher Monologue

This could be interesting, especially if you have a highly imaginative class. Ask your students to create a small script or story they would like you to read aloud. Here is the catch: students must use a set of words you have provided them with; however, they are spelt incorrectly. For each word spelt correctly in their script/story they gain a point. Yet, if they spell any other word incorrectly, they lose a point. Students can start with 5 points (or as many points as you want), and whichever group has the highest points wins.

Correct the spelling

Students need to get into the habit of checking their work. This is extremely important for when they go into high school, especially during exams. Get students to constantly check their spelling in their work, this way they can create a great habit for when they have to write. Regardless of whether they are writing something important or not, students should still strive for good spelling. Being able to spell correctly will help students feel confident in their writing.

Here is a small worksheet to get students to practise their spelling.

Spelling who am I?

Add spelling words onto post-it notes and split your classroom into two teams. The first player must sit at the front of the classroom facing their teammates. The player at the front of the classroom must wear a post-it-note on their heads and allow their team to describe the word so they can guess it correctly. Students cannot say the actual word, but they can use gestures, rhyming words, antonyms, and synonyms. After guessing the word, they must spell it. Two points are awarded if they get the word and the spelling correct. Let the teams take turns, and whoever gets the most points win.

Interactive Games

A good way to engage your students with spelling is by using interactive games. Learning with Emile has been designed by teachers for teachers and students. Learning with Emile has tons of resources, especially for spelling and phonics.

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Worksheets with Emile

Worksheets are a classic way of helping students spell better. Following the “look, say, cover, spell, and check” method, students can fully learn the required words given by the government on the National Curriculum.

These worksheets are for Year 6 and Year 5 and 6, following the appendix on the National Curriculum. Download them for free below!

Year 1         Year 2       Year 3       Year 4       Year 5 

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Years 5 and 6 spellings- Weekly Homework

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Age range: 7-11

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20 June 2018

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National Curriculum Spelling set out weekly for your class.

They start in the Years 3 and 4 region and progress into 5 and 6.

Spellings increase from 10 a week, to 12 and finally 15.

These lists have included many spellings to be tested by SATs.

Some spellings are repeated. This is not an error. Trickier spellings are revisited based on how my previous classes have worked with them. Feel free to edit them.

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