Year 5/6
Autumn
 Revision of key rules
from Y3/4*
 Endings spelt ‘–cious’
or ‘-tious’
 Endings spelt ‘-cial’ or
‘-tial’
 Words ending –ant/-
ance/-ancy (-ent/-
ence/-ency)
*May not be necessary in top sets, or can be prolonged in middle set.
Year 3/4
Autumn
 Adding suffixes
beginning with vowel
letters to words of
more than one syllable
 The /I/ sound spelt ‘y’
 The /^/ sound spelt
‘ou’
 More prefixes
Spring Summer
 Words ending –able or
–ible (-ibly/-ably)
 Adding suffixes
beginning with vowel
letters to words
ending in –fer
 Use of the hyphen
 Words spelt ‘ei’ after
‘c’
Spring Summer
 The suffix ‘–ation’
 The suffix ‘-ly’
 Words that end ‘–ture’
and ‘–sure’
 Words ending in ‘–
sion’
 The suffix ‘–ous’
 Words containing –
ough
 Words with silent
letters that aren’t
heard when spoken
 Homophones and
other words that are
often confused
 Endings which sound
like ‘-shun’
 Words with the Greek
‘ch’, French ‘ch’ ‘gue’
‘que’ and Latin ‘sc’
 Words with ‘a’ spelt
‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’
 Possessive
apostrophes with
plurals
 Homophones and near
homophones