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Spelling lists
Information for Parents/Carers
These lists of words have been chosen from the new National Curriculum. Once a week your child will bring home a list of words to learn for a test the
following week. Please spend a few minutes each day with them, going through the words so that they know how to spell them by the time of the test.
For some children, it may be appropriate for them to learn words from a higher or lower year group if those word lists are more suitable. If this is the case for
your child, please do not worry that they are behind, but help them with the words that they need to learn. With your support and with regular practice they
will improve.
Please keep this list safe so that you know what words your child has each week. This information will also be available to download on the school website in
case you lose this sheet.
When helping your child learn their spelling it is important that they learn the spelling rule as well as the words themselves so that they can apply the rule
to other words. Children will record their spelling scores in their homework book so that you can keep a check on how they are doing.
Spelling activities
Here are some ideas to help your child learn his/her spellings:
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Use the LOOK, COVER, WRITE CHECK approach to practice the spellings
Look for words within words
Put the words into sentences
Practice handwriting by writing out the spellings
Identify words in reading books with the same/similar patterns
Make word cards and stick them around the house
Make a word search using your spellings
Air spelling – using your index finger, write the word slowly in the air saying each letter as you ‘write’ it
Missing letters – mums and dads write out the spellings with some letters missing. Children try to fill in the missing letters.
Spelling lists – Y5
Spelling lists
Year 5
Week 1
Science Topic words
Week 2
Geography topic
words
species
adult
adolescent
elderly
toddler
gestation
hormones
carnivore
herbivore
omnivore
Wales
Northern
Ireland
Physical
Human
Feature
Mountain
Ocean
Scale
Distance
dependable
comfortable
understandable
reasonable
enjoyable
changeable
noticeable
forcible
considerable
tolerable
edible
possible
horrible
terrible
visible
incredible
sensible
legible
accessible
bible
Week 5
Week 6
Words containing the
letterstring ough
Week 7
Words containing the
letterstring
ough
Week 8
Science Topic
Words – Changing
sounds
dough
through
borough
plough
tough
enough
cough
though
although
insulate
insular
thickness
tightness
tension
strum
tuning
vibrate
muffle
pitch
Week 11
Homophones and other words that
are often confused
Week 12
Homophones and other words
that are often confused
bridal/bridle
cereal/serial
compliment/ complement
descent/dissent
desert/dessert
draft/draught
advice/advise
device/devise
licence/license
practice/practise
Week 15
Topic Words
Week 16
Topic
Words
Endings which sound like
/ul/
initial
financial
commercial
provincial
official
special
artificial
partial
confidential
essential
ought
bought
thought
nought
brought
fought
although
through
rough
trough
Week 9
History Topic
Words – Anglo
Saxons
Sutton hoo
tapestry
soldiers
horn
jewellery
invasion
settlement
Beowolf
Anglo-Saxon
defeats
Week 10
Homophones and other
words that are often
confused
Week 13
Homophones and other words
that are often confused
Week 14
Homophones and other
words that are often
confused
guessed/guest
heard/herd
led/lead
morning/mourning
past/passed
aisle/isle
aloud/allowed
affect/effect
altar/alter
who’s/whose
Week 3
Words ending in –able and
–ible
Week 4
Words ending in –able and
–ible
precede/proceed
principal/principle
profit/prophet
steal/steel
prophecy/prophesy
Week 17
Homophones and other words
that are often confused
Week 18
Words with the /ee/
sound spelt ei after c
eligible/
illegible
eliminate/
illuminate
father/farther/
further wary/
weary
stationary/
stationery
deceive
conceive
receive
perceive
ceiling
deceit
Week 19
Use of the hyphen
co-ordinate
re-enter
co-operate
co-own
sugar-free
accident-prone
re-new
long-winded
heavy-handed
light-footed
Spelling lists – Y5
Week 20
Adding suffixes beginning with
vowel letters to words ending in
–fer
referring
referred
referral
preferring
preferred
transferring
transferred
reference
referee
preference
Spelling
lists
transference
Week 21
Topic Words
Week 25
Words ending in –ant, – ance/–
ancy, –ent,
–ence/–ency
confident
confidence
confidential
assistant
assistance
obedient
obedience
independent
independenc
e
Week 29
Y5/Y6 required spelling list words
accommodate
accompany
according
achieve
aggressive
amateur
ancient
apparent
appreciate
attached
Week 33
Y5/Y6 required spelling list words
convenience
correspond
criticise
curiosity
definite
desperate
awkward
bargain
bruise
category
Week 22
Topic
Words
Week 23
Words ending in –ant, –
ance/–ancy, –ent,
–ence/–ency
Week 24
Words ending in –ant, –
ance/–ancy, –ent,
–ence/–ency
observant
observance
observation
expectant
expectation
hesitant
hesitancy
hesitation
tolerant
toleration
tolerance
substance
substantial
innocent
innocence
decent decency
frequent
frequency,
Week 26
Week 27
Endings which sound like
/us/ spelt –cious or –tious
Endings which sound like
/us/ spelt –cious or –tious
conscious
delicious
malicious,
suspicious
ambitious
vicious
gracious
spacious
malicious
anxious
fictitious
cautious
infectious
nutritious
precious,
Week 28
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e.
letters whose presence cannot
be predicted from the
pronunciation of the word)
doubt
island
lamb
solemn
thistle
knight
Week 30
Y5/Y6 required spelling list
words
Topic words
Week 31
Y5/Y6 required spelling list words
Week 32
Y5/Y6 required spelling list words
Topic Words
communicate
community
competition
conscience
conscious
controversy
committee
available
average
cemetery
Week 34
Y5/Y6 required spelling list
words
Week 35
Y5/Y6 required spelling list words
Week 36
Y5/Y6 required spelling list words
equipped
equipment)
especially
exaggerate
excellent
existence
explanation
familiar
foreign forty
frequently
government
determined
develop
dictionary
disastrous
embarrass
environment
Spelling lists – Y5