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Year 6 · English

Root Word Awareness

Year 6 learners practise root words prefixes and suffixes.

The activities include Know Your Number Prefixes, Know Your Prefixes: aero-, Know Your Prefixes: auto-, bi-, circum-, tele- and trans-, and related practice. The checked support below includes teaching, lesson, video, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Know Your Number Prefixes
  • Know Your Prefixes: aero-
  • Know Your Prefixes: auto-, bi-, circum-, tele- and trans-
  • Know Your Roots: 'cred'
  • Know Your Roots: 'hydro'
  • Know Your Roots: 'port'
  • Know Your Roots: scribe' and script'
  • Know Your Roots: 'tele' and scope'
  • Know Your Suffixes: -graph or -graphy
  • Learn to Spell a Range of Suffixes
  • Practise Spelling a Range of Suffixes
  • Practise Spelling Words Containing the Long 'e' Sound
  • Use and Spell Tricky Words
  • Use and Understand a Range of Words
  • Use Different Suffixes in Spelling
  • Use Homophones that are Easily Confused
  • Use Hyphens Correctly

Checked learning resources

  • Oak: Letter strings, etymology and curriculum words

    Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 6/KS2 unit linked to root words prefixes and suffixes.

  • BBC Bitesize: Prefixes and suffixes

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS2 Prefixes and suffixes support for root words prefixes and suffixes.

  • Twinkl: PlanIt Y6 Term 1B W6: Prefixes micro- and mini- Spelling Pack

    Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Twinkl Year 6 resource linked to root words prefixes and suffixes.

  • What Is a Word Family? | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Explains how a shared root links a family of words and how etymology can help pupils infer meaning and spelling. The video teaches the root-and-word-family method; the accompanying cred resource supplies the exact Latin

  • Using Suffixes | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Models how suffixes attach to root words and change word form or meaning. The video teaches how endings attach to roots; the accompanying resource targets the exact -graph and -graphy spellings.

  • Homophones and Near Homophones Y5/Y6 Spelling Practice | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 5/6 learner video demonstrates how spelling changes meaning for commonly confused homophones and includes SATs-style questions.

  • What are Root Words?

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    KS2 guide explains how Latin and Greek roots carry meaning and how prefixes and suffixes build related word families, supporting the exact cred practice pack.

  • Root Word of the Week: cred

    Stellar Teaching Co. · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Upper-primary English vocabulary and spelling teaching and practice for the Latin root cred meaning believe, using a repeated Root Word of the Week routine to build and practise words in the cred word family.