Starter quiz
- Select the suffixes.
- -ed ✓
- un-
- -ence ✓
- de-
- -able ✓
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- Identify the words containing the 'ough' letter string.
- tough ✓
- outdoor
- scuffle
- nought ✓
- rough ✓
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- Match the root words to the words ending in -able.
- admire⇔admirable ✓
- manage⇔manageable ✓
- comfort⇔comfortable ✓
- Match the root words to the words ending with the suffix -ed.
- stop⇔stopped ✓
- hurry⇔hurried ✓
- appreciate⇔appreciated ✓
- laugh⇔laughed ✓
- Words using the -able suffix ...
- usually have a root word you can recognise. ✓
- do not usually have a recognisable root.
- are more modern words. ✓
- are very old words.
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- Select the correct spelling of the word below.
- urjensy
- urjency
- urgency ✓
- urgancy
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Exit quiz
- Identify the correctly spelt words.
- vegetable ✓
- availible
- vedgetible
- available ✓
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- Identify the correctly spelt words.
- convenence
- convenience ✓
- existence ✓
- existance
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- Identify the 'word within a word' in the spelling 'attached'.
- att
- tach
- attach ✓
- hed
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- What rule is being used when the word 'equip' becomes 'equipped' when adding the suffix -ed?
- Just add -ed.
- Remove the ‘y’ and add -ied.
- Remove the ‘e’ and add -ed.
- Double the consonant and add -ed. ✓
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- Which spelling strategy would be most useful to help practise the spelling 'physical'?
- naughty letters
- word within a word
- pyramid letters ✓
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- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'The dove is a cymbal of peace.'
- 'symbol' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- How to spell the curriculum words: available, vegetable, physical and symbol.
- How to spell the curriculum words: convenience, existence and conscience.
- How to spell the curriculum words: equipped, attached and thorough.
- Spelling strategies help us to notice how words are spelled.
- The practice spelling strategy you choose often depends on the spelling you are practising and what makes it difficult.
Common misconception
Pupils may assume that all curriculum words are common exception words.
Discuss that the list is made up of words with the rules they have learnt or should have come across. Discuss the rules some words use compared to words that may be exceptions.
Keywords
Suffix - a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning
Letter string - a group of letters that are written together in a word
Silent letters - a letter in a word that is not pronounced when the word is spoken
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