Year 6 · English

Exam Style Questions: Spellings

Year 6 learners practise sats spelling and grammar terminology.

The activities include Identify Active and Passive Voice, Identify Homophones and Homonyms, Identify Synonyms and Antonyms, and related practice. The checked support below includes teaching, video, interactive, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

Identify Active and Passive Voice
Identify Homophones and Homonyms
Identify Synonyms and Antonyms
Understand and Apply Semi-Colons
Understanding and Using Word Beginnings
Understanding and Using Word Endings
Understanding Patterns Contained Within Words

Checked learning resources

Oak: Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice

Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Oak Year 6/KS2 unit linked to sats spelling and grammar terminology.
Oak: Homophones and tense

Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Oak Year 6/KS2 unit linked to sats spelling and grammar terminology.
Spelling words with the prefixes bi-, trans-, tele- and circum-

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

Upper-KS2 English lesson and video explaining prefix meanings and practising accurate spelling of words beginning with bi-, trans-, tele- and circum-.
Prefixes bi-, trans-, tele- and circum- worksheet and quiz downloads

Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

Upper-KS2 English worksheet and quizzes for rehearsing accurate spelling and use of different word beginnings known as prefixes, including bi-, trans-, tele- and circum-.
EducationCity Year 6 Prefixes: bi-, aqua-, aero- and audi-

EducationCity · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 6 English SATs lesson plan and activity sheet teaching the meanings and spelling of the prefixes bi-, aqua-, aero- and audi-, then applying each to root words.
Oak: Revising Spelling Patterns Linked To Sounds

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

Year 6 english lesson. I can spell words containing the same and different sounds. Some sounds can be represented by a number of different spellings e.g. the /ee/ sound. The same spellings can represent more than one sou
Oak lesson slides: Synonyms Antonyms Prepositions And Adverbs

Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Year 6 english lesson. I can identify how specific words act on the meaning of a sentence. Words can be related to each other by common features, patterns or meaning. Synonyms and antonyms can be used by writers to vary
Year 6 Synonyms and Antonyms Application Activity

Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

Verified Year 6 application worksheet requiring pupils to identify, choose and substitute synonyms and antonyms in sentence contexts.