Spring term 1 spellings year 6
NEW FOCUS
Each week we have given you a challenge to use any of the ten
spellings in a short piece of writing. You will be expected to be
creative, show off a variety of punctuation and use GWASSINGSLY. If
you prefer to write ten sentences as last term, you may do so.
Week 1 Soft c Focus – ing starters, alliteration, descriptive text
Place, plaice, replace, misplace, surface, palace, malice, slice, splice,
spice, thrice, precise, imprecise, parcel, fleece, niece, cease, piece,
masterpiece, juice, truce, spruce, force, source, enforce, choice,
voice, rejoice, decent, recent
Week 2 soft g Focus – ly starters, past tense, news report
Charged, barged, cage, rage, sage, wage, enraged, outraged, voyage,
garbage, package, shrinkage, bandage, mileage, damaged, storage,
wastage, language, vantage, advantage, vicarage, average,
Week 3 soft g Focus - x 3 sentences, exclamation marks, short story
coverage, spillage, manage, encourage, courage, huge, refuge, bulge,
indulge, change, range, arrange, binge, hinge, cringe, whinge, lounge,
scrounge, lunge, urge, splurge, merge, submerge
Week 4 soft g Focus – alliteration, commas, writing instructions
lodge, stodge, dislodge, budge, fudge, sludge, smudge, knowledge,
edge, sledge, porridge
Week 5 -le Focus – good words, a poem
Circle, candle, snuggle, babble, scrabble, dabble, gabble, rabble,
bubble, stubble, warble, nimble, thimble, humble, tumble, stumble,
baffle, snaffle, raffle, waffle, bubble, smuggle, snuggle, struggle,
trample, simple, topple, cattle, rattle, bottle, pickle, trickle, crumple,
crinkle, example, castle, muscle, article, bicycle, particle, gargle,
crumble, needle
Week 6 Focus – similes, explanation text
-al
Herbal, central, verbal, rascal, pedal, signal, genial, jovial, dial, loyal,
gradual, annual, actual, mammal, oral, choral, mural, central, signal,
formal, removal, interval
-il
Stencil, devil
-el
Rebel, novel, grovel, shovel, caramel, towel, trowel, vowel, cruel,
jewel, fuel, parcel, travel, snivel, drivel, hazel