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Belleville Primary School Belleville Road London SW11 6PR web www.bellevilleschool.org Tel 020 7228 6727 Fax 020 7228 8070 e-mail [email protected] Headteacher John Grove MA Deputy Headteachers Mary-Lyne Latour B.Ed, Dip T Sarah Atherton BA (Hons) Jane Ford MA 17th September 2015 Registered Company Number 07768645 Dear Parents/Carers of Year 6 children, English at Belleville 2015-16 As you may be aware, there is a greater emphasis on spelling and grammar under the new National Curriculum which now applies to all year groups from Year 1 to 6. We shall be building up the children’s knowledge and understanding of these important elements of language during a skills lesson once a week where the lessons will cover skills in spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. There are lists of commonly misspelt words which are now statutory for all children to know, spelling patterns and rules to know and apply and a much greater emphasis on grammatical knowledge including the use of technical terminology to describe language. To support your child with the spelling and grammar, we are providing lists of spellings and rules which will be covered. Your child will be given words to learn each week which are from these lists or patterns along with any personal spellings to practise at home in their spelling record books. Year 6 children will also be revising/ learning the spelling patterns and rules from years 3,4 and 5 where necessary. For your reference, the previous year’s content is included to give a guide as to what your child is expected to know at the start of the year. Other year group coverage is available on the school website should you require it. We hope this will be useful to you in supporting your child. As always do please ask your child’s teacher or one of the English team if you have any questions. Yours sincerely, The English Team • • • • Jane Ford (Deputy Headteacher) Catherine Burns (English Leader Early Years/Year 1 and2) Jessica Avison (English Leader Year 3 and 4) Siobhan Lindsay (English Leader Year 5 and 6) Year 6 Words to learn accompany achieve amateur apparent apparent attached average bargain category committee community conscious controversy correspond curiosity definite determined dictionary embarrass equip (-ped, -ment) exaggerate existence familiar foreign forty government harass identity individual leisure marvellous muscle neighbour occupy persuade profession pronunciation recognise relevant rhyme rhythm sacrifice shoulder sincere (ly) stomach sufficient suggest system thorough vehicle Year 6 Spelling Rules and Patterns • • • • Adding -ing / -ed to words ending -fer, for example: prefer, preferring and preferred Use of the hyphen, for example: 'co-ordinate', 're-enter' Words containing ei, after c eg 'ceiling', deceive, receive and exceptions eg protein, seize Homophones (words which sound the same but are spelled differently) and other words that are often confused for example: principle/ principal; guessed/guest; advice/advise; precede/proceed Year 5 Words to learn accommodate criticise (critic + ise) interfere rhythm according desperate language secretary aggressive develop lightning signature ancient disastrous mischievous soldier appreciate environment necessary sufficient available especially nuisance symbol awkward excellent occur temperature bruise explanation parliament twelfth cemetery foreign physical vegetable communicate frequently privilege yacht competition guarantee queue conscious hindrance recommend convenience immediate (ly) restaurant Years 5 Spelling Rules and Patterns • • • • • • • Words ending -cious and -tious such as 'delicious' and 'superstitious' Words ending -cial and -tial such as 'special' and 'partial' Words ending -ant, -ance and -ancy such as 'hesitant', 'hesitance' and 'hesitancy' Words ending -ent, -ence and -ency such as ‘patient’, ‘patience’ and ‘frequency’ Words ending -able / -ably and -ible / -ibly such as 'comfortable' / 'comfortably' and 'horrible' / 'horribly' Words containing ough and looking at the different sounds in different words, for example: 'enough', 'through', 'although', 'plough' Silent letters in words which cannot be detected in pronunciation eg 'doubt', 'thistle' and 'solemn’ • Homophones (words which sound the same but are spelled differently) and other words that are confused for example: ‘practice’/ ‘practise’; heard/herd; serial/cereal; allowed/aloud Grammatical terminology for Pupils Y1-6 Year 1 Terminology for pupils letter, capital letter word, singular, plural sentence punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark Year 2 Terminology for pupils noun, noun phrase statement, question, exclamation, command compound, suffix adjective, adverb, verb tense (past, present) apostrophe, comma Year 3 Terminology for pupils preposition, conjunction word family, prefix clause, subordinate clause direct speech consonant, consonant letter vowel, vowel letter inverted commas (or ‘speech marks’) Year 4 Terminology for pupils determiner pronoun, possessive pronoun adverbial Year 5 Terminology for pupils modal verb, relative pronoun relative clause parenthesis, bracket, dash cohesion, ambiguity Year 6 Terminology for pupils subject, object active, passive, subjunctive synonym, antonym ellipsis, hyphen, colon, semi-colon, bullet points, Please note: A very useful glossary with examples of all these terms is available online from the Department for Education. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/244216 /English_Glossary.pdf