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Humanities (History / Geography)
Spelling
Year 5 National Curriculum requirements
Pupils should be taught to
• develop a range of personal strategies for learning new and irregular words*
• develop a range of personal strategies for spelling at the point of composition*
• develop a range of strategies for checking and proof reading spellings after writing*
• use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them
• spell some words with ‘silent’ letters (for example, knight, psalm, solemn)
• continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often
confused
• use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that the
spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically, as listed in English Appendix 1
• use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
• use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these
in a dictionary
• use a thesaurus
• proofread for spelling errors.
Statutory word list for Years 5
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accommodate accompany according achieve aggressive amateur ancient apparent appreciate attached available average awkward bargain bruise category cemetery committee communicate community competition conscience conscious controversy convenience correspond criticise (critic + ise) curiosity definite desperate determined develop dictionary disastrous |
embarrass environment equip (-ped, -ment) especially exaggerate excellent existence explanation familiar foreign forty frequently government guarantee harass hindrance identity immediately interfere interrupt language leisure lightning (h) marvellous mischievous muscle (h) necessary neighbour nuisance occupy occur opportunity |
parliament persuade physical prejudice privilege profession programme pronunciation queue recognise recommend restaurant rhyme rhythm sacrifice secretary shoulder signature sincere(ly) soldier stomach sufficient suggest symbol (h) system temperature thorough twelfth variety vegetable vehicle yacht |