TheLearnDenYear 5 · English
Spelling Awareness Use Knowledge Of Morphology And Etymology In Spelling
Year 5 learners practise word origins and tricky spellings.
The activities include Investigate Spelling Patterns in Pluralisation, Investigate Spelling Patterns in Plurals of Latin and Greek Words, Investigate Spelling Rules and Exceptions in Plurals, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
Activities covered
- Investigate Spelling Patterns in Pluralisation
- Investigate Spelling Patterns in Plurals of Latin and Greek Words
- Investigate Spelling Rules and Exceptions in Plurals
- Learn to Spell Commonly Misspelt Words
- Learn to Spell Some Tricky Words
- Practise Spelling Some Commonly Misspelt Words
- Practise Spelling Some Tricky Words
- Spell Some Commonly Misspelt Words
Checked learning resources
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What Are the Year 5 and Year 6 Common Exception Words?
YouTube — Twinkl Educational Publishing · Video · Opens on the provider website
Teacher-led video introduces the Year 5/6 statutory spelling words and models strategies for remembering tricky spellings.
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KS2 English Spelling: Plurals
BBC · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website
Browser-viewable BBC KS2 spelling worksheet includes rules and questions on spelling plural nouns.
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Making Nouns Plural: Tricky Exceptions Lesson Pack
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Upper-KS2 pack explicitly investigates spelling patterns in words when forming regular and irregular plurals, including exceptions and changing endings.
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Making Singular Nouns Plural Worksheet
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Differentiated practice investigates spelling patterns in words when adding -s or -es, changing y to -ies, f or fe to -ves and forming irregular plurals.
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Morphology and Etymology: Where Do Words Come From? Ages 9–11
Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required
Ages 9–11 resource investigates spelling patterns in words by showing how Greek and Latin origins, roots and endings shape English plural forms.
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Greek and Latin Irregular Plurals Worksheet
ESL Drill · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website
Browser-viewable worksheet investigates spelling patterns in words through Latin and Greek plural changes including -a/-ae, -us/-i and -ix or -ex/-ices.
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Year 5 and Year 6 Statutory Spelling Mnemonics Activity PowerPoint
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Upper-KS2 teaching resource develops memorable strategies for commonly misspelt statutory words.
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Statutory Spelling List Year 5 and Year 6 Activity Book
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Activity book provides repeated contextual practice with the Year 5/6 statutory spelling list.