Spelling Year 6

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

Pick a level

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.

Learning spellings

The best way to remember your spellings is the look, say, cover, write, check method. Regularly practicing this way will improve your 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.

Some of these do not follow the normal phonic rules and are known as 'tricky' words. Here there is no trick to learning to spell these words they just have to know.

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.

breakable fashionable likeable reasonable

possible visible incredible terrible sensible

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.
noticeable
Notice is a true word so we use able.

possible
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.

special official social

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

potential essential partial

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.

minibus minibeast microchip

Words with ce

These words contain ce.

celebrate certificate sacrifice

Words with ie or ei

These words contain ee sound spelt ie or ei.

believe deceive ceiling

Words with ou or ow

These words have ou or ow.

window known shoulder

Homophones

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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