Spelling and Handwriting Sheets

Please click the links below to download sheets displaying the weekly spelling lists being practised by Years 1-6 in school. The sheets also double up as handwriting practice - Year 1 and 2 can practise forming their pre-cursive lettering, while Years 3-6 can practise that lovely joined-up continuous cursive handwriting!

PLEASE NOTE THAT CHILDREN ON THE READ, WRITE INC. PHONICS SCHEME WILL HAVE THEIR OWN SET OF WEEKLY SPELLINGS TO LEARN BASED ON THEIR PHONIC SOUNDS PRACTISED THAT WEEK - THESE WILL BE STUCK INTO THEIR GREEN LEARNING JOURNALS TO PRACTISE AT HOME.

 

AUTUMN TERM 1

 

YEAR 1

  WEEK 1 - [f] and [s] sounds using 'ff' and 'ss'

  WEEK 2 - [l], [k] and [z] sounds using 'll', 'ck' and 'zz'

  WEEK 3 - adding '-ing', '-ed' and '-er', no change to root word

  WEEK 4 - [ng] and [nk] sounds

  WEEK 5 - [ch] sound using 'ch' and 'tch'

  WEEK 6 - [v] sound using 'v' and 've'

 

 

YEAR 2

  WEEK 1 - initial blend 'kn' and 'gn' with silent 'k' and 'g'

  WEEK 2 - initial blend 'wr' with silent 'w'

  WEEK 3 - words containing soft 'c' sound as in [s]

  WEEK 4 - '-ge' and '-dge' words

  WEEK 5 - words containing soft 'g' and 'j' sounds as in [j]

  WEEK 6 - digraph revision ('oo', 'ai', 'ld', 'mb', 'st', 'ly', 'th')

 

 

 

YEAR 3

  WEEK 1 - 'ei' and 'eigh' words

  WEEK 2 - '-ey' words

  WEEK 3 - 'ai' and 'aigh' words

  WEEK 4 - 'ear' words

  WEEK 5 - long [e] and [a] blend and 'kn' silent blend revision

  WEEK 6 - homophones

 

 

YEAR 4

  WEEK 1 - 'aught' and 'au' words

  WEEK 2 - 'in-' prefix words

  WEEK 3 - 'im-' prefix words

  WEEK 4 - 'ill-' and 'irr-' prefix words

  WEEK 5 - homophones

  WEEK 6 - '-sion' suffix

 

 

YEAR 5

  WEEK 1 - '-cious' suffix

  WEEK 2 - '-tious' suffix

  WEEK 3 - words containing 'y' as short [i] sound

  WEEK 4 - words containing 'y' as long [i] sound

  WEEK 5 - homophones

  WEEK 6 - more homophones!

 

 

YEAR 6

  WEEK 1 - ambitious synonyms as adjectives

  WEEK 2 - '-ce / -cy' nouns and '-se / -sy' verbs as homophones

  WEEK 3 - '-ant' adjectives into '-ancy' and '-ance' nouns

  WEEK 4 - '-ent' adjectives into '-ency' and '-ence' nouns

  WEEK 5 - 'co-' and 're-' hyphenated prefix words

  WEEK 6 - hyphenated compound adjectives

 

 

AUTUMN TERM 2

 

YEAR 1

  WEEK 1 - 'ai' and 'oi' vowel digraphs

  WEEK 2 - 'ay' and 'oy' graphemes

  WEEK 3 - long [o] sound made by 'o', 'oa', 'oe' and 'ow'

  WEEK 4 - long [e] sound made by 'e' and 'ee' graphemes

  WEEK 5 - long and short [e] sound made by 'ea' grapheme

  WEEK 6 - long and short [i] sounds made by 'ie' vowel digraph

 

 

YEAR 2

  WEEK 1 - '-le' endings

  WEEK 2 - '-el' endings

  WEEK 3 - '-il' and '-al' endings

  WEEK 4 - long [i] sound made by letter 'y' on end of words

  WEEK 5 - '-ies' endings

  WEEK 6 - '-ind', '-old' and '-ery' endings

 

 

YEAR 3

  WEEK 1 - '-ly' endings

  WEEK 2 - '-ily' endings

  WEEK 3 - '-bly' endings

  WEEK 4 - '-ally' endings

  WEEK 5 - more '-ly' endings

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

 

 

YEAR 4

  WEEK 1 - '-sion' endings

  WEEK 2 - '-ssion' endings

  WEEK 3 - '-tion' endings

  WEEK 4 - '-ician' endings

  WEEK 5 - '-ough' and '-ought' endings

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

 

 

YEAR 5

  WEEK 1 - silent 'b', 'k' and 'm' words

  WEEK 2 - more silent letters

  WEEK 3 - high frequency word practice

  WEEK 4 - '-ment' endings

  WEEK 5 - '-ly' endings

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

 

 

YEAR 6

  WEEK 1 - '-able' endings

  WEEK 2 - more '-able' endings!

  WEEK 3 - '-ably' endings

  WEEK 4 - 'temper-' and 'var-' prefixes

  WEEK 5 - words containing 'gest' and 'light' graphemes

  WEEK 6 - 'mini-' prefix words

 

 

SPRING TERM 1

 

YEAR 1

  WEEK 1 - '-ight' endings

  WEEK 2 - 'ar' grapheme

  WEEK 3 - 'er' grapheme

  WEEK 4 - 'ir' grapheme

  WEEK 5 - 'er' and 'est' endings

  WEEK 6 - days of the week and common exception practice

 

 

YEAR 2

  WEEK 1 - '-ied', '-ier' and '-iest' endings

  WEEK 2  - '-ying' and '-iing' endings

  WEEK 3 - '-ing', '-iny', '-er', '-ed' and '-est' endings

  WEEK 4 - double consonant with above endings

  WEEK 5 - '-all' and '-alk' endings

  WEEK 6 - '-ast', '-ant', '-ass' and '-ath' endings

 

 

YEAR 3

  WEEK 1 - 'y' as part-time vowel making [i] sound

  WEEK 2 - '-ed' and '-ing' endings

  WEEK 3 - double consonant with above endings

  WEEK 4 - 'mis-' prefix

  WEEK 5 - 'did-' prefix

  WEEK 6 - 'ch' grapheme making [k] sound

 

 

YEAR 4

  WEEK 1 - homophones

  WEEK 2  - more homophones!

  WEEK 3 - '-ation' endings

  WEEK 4 - more '-ation' endings!

  WEEK 5 - 'sub-' prefix

  WEEK 6 - plural possessives

 

 

YEAR 5

  WEEK 1 - '-ity' endings

  WEEK 2 - '-ness' endings

  WEEK 3 - '-ship' endings

  WEEK 4 - homophones

  WEEK 5 - more homophones!

  WEEK 6 - even more homophones (we love them!)

 

 

YEAR 6

  WEEK 1 - 'refer-', 'prefer-' and 'trans-' prefixes

  WEEK 2 - 'ie' grapheme making [ee] sound

  WEEK 3 - 'ei' grapheme making [ee] sound

  WEEK 4 - words containing 'mit' grapheme

  WEEK 5 - 'inter-' prefix

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

  

 

SPRING TERM 2

 

YEAR 1

  WEEK 1 - words containing the letter 'k'

  WEEK 2 - 'a-e' and 'e-e' split digraphs

  WEEK 3 - 'i-e' and 'o-e' split digraphs

  WEEK 4 - 'u-e' split digraph

  WEEK 5 - 'oo' vowel digraph

  WEEK 6 - 'ue' and 'ew' digraphs

 

 

YEAR 2

  WEEK 1 - common exception words

  WEEK 2  - '-ey' endings

  WEEK 3 - 'w special', 'qu' and 'squ' changing [a] sound to [o]

  WEEK 4 - 'wor-' and 'war-' trigraphs

  WEEK 5 - '-sion' and '-sure' endings

  WEEK 6 - 'ea' vowel digraph with split digraph mixture

 

 

YEAR 3

  WEEK 1 - homophones

  WEEK 2 - more homophones!

  WEEK 3 - 'bi-' and 're-' prefixes

  WEEK 4 - '-gue' and '-que' trigraphs

  WEEK 5 - 'ch' digraph making [sh] sound

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

 

 

YEAR 4

  WEEK 1 - 'sc' digraph making [s] sound

  WEEK 2 - 'ce' digraph making [s] sound

  WEEK 3 - 'ci' digraph with different sounds made by [i]

  WEEK 4 - 'ph' digraph with words made from 'real' root word

  WEEK 5 - more root words with their extensions

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

 

 

YEAR 5

  WEEK 1 - words containing 'or' digraph

  WEEK 2 - words containing 'au' vowel digraph

  WEEK 3 - '-ate' suffix

  WEEK 4 - '-ise' suffix

  WEEK 5 - '-ify' suffix

  WEEK 6 - '-en' suffix

 

 

YEAR 6

  WEEK 1 - '-cial' suffix

  WEEK 2 - '-tial' suffix

  WEEK 3 - common exception word practice

  WEEK 4 - words beginning with 'acc-'

  WEEK 5 - words containing 'sign'

  WEEK 6 - more common exception word practice

 

 

 

SUMMER TERM 1

 

YEAR 1

  WEEK 1  'ow' and 'ou' words

  WEEK 2 - 'y' making long [e] sound

  WEEK 3 - 'or' words

  WEEK 4 - 'aw' and 'au' words

  WEEK 5 - 'air' and 'are' words

  WEEK 6 - 'ear' making long and short [e] sound

 

 

YEAR 2

  WEEK 1 - '-ment', '-ness' and '-ful' endings

  WEEK 2 - '-ly' and '-less' endings

  WEEK 3 - '-tion' endings

  WEEK 4 - 'n't' and other contractions

  WEEK 5 - possessive apostrophes

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

 

 

YEAR 3

  WEEK 1 - '-ary' endings

  WEEK 2 - 'o' making short [u] sound

  WEEK 3 - 'ou' making short [u] sound

  WEEK 4 - words containing 'struct' and 'uni-'

  WEEK 5 - '-scope' and 'spect' words

  WEEK 6 - '-press' and 'vent' words

 

 

YEAR 4

  WEEK 1 - 'inter-' prefix

  WEEK 2 - 'anti-' prefix

  WEEK 3 - 'auto-' prefix

  WEEK 4 - 'ex-' prefix

  WEEK 5 - 'non-' prefix

  WEEK 6 - '-ar' and '-er' endings

 

 

YEAR 5

  WEEK 1 - 'ough' words

  WEEK 2 - more 'ough' words!

  WEEK 3 - time adverbials

  WEEK 4 - prepositions

  WEEK 5 - '-ere' endings

  WEEK 6 - common exception word practice

 

 

YEAR 6

  WEEK 1 - 'gram' words

  WEEK 2 - common exception words

  WEEK 3 - more common exception words!

  WEEK 4 - 'ou' and 'ow' words

  WEEK 5 - '-ible' words

  WEEK 6 - '-ibly' words

 

 

SUMMER TERM 2

 

YEAR 1

  WEEK 1 - words containing 'ph' and 'wh'

  WEEK 2 - 'un-' prefix

  WEEK 3 - '-s' and '-es' plural words

  WEEK 4 - compound words

  WEEK 5 - pronoun contractions

  WEEK 6 - simple verbs and pronouns

 

 

YEAR 2

  WEEK 1 - homophones

  WEEK 2 - more homophones!

  WEEK 3 - homophones and conjunctions

  WEEK 4 - months of the year

  WEEK 5 - more months and time nouns

  WEEK 6 - adverbs

 

 

YEAR 3

  WEEK 1 - '-al' endings

  WEEK 2 - '-sure' endings

  WEEK 3 - '-ure' endings

  WEEK 4 - more '-ure' endings

  WEEK 5 - silent letters

  WEEK 6 - more silent letters!

 

 

YEAR 4

  WEEK 1 - '-ous' endings

  WEEK 2 - more '-ous' endings!

  WEEK 3 - '-rious' and '-orous' endings

  WEEK 4 - more '-ous' endings

  WEEK 5 - time adverbials

  WEEK 6 - adverbs

 

 

YEAR 5

  WEEK 1 - polysyllabic words with unstressed vowels

  WEEK 2 - 'de-' and 're-' prefixes

  WEEK 3 - 'over-' prefix

  WEEK 4 - '-ful' suffix

  WEEK 5 - '-tive' and '-sive' endings

  WEEK 6 - '-al' endings

 

 

YEAR 6

  WEEK 1 - synonyms and antonyms

  WEEK 2 - more synonyms and antonyms!

  WEEK 3 - synonyms and antonyms for happy and sad

  WEEK 4 - synonyms and antonyms for volume

  WEEK 5 - synonyms and antonyms for temperature

  WEEK 6 - synonyms and antonyms for movement