Year National Curriculum requirements Pupils should be taught to develop a range of personal strategies for learning new and irregular words* develop a range of personal strategies for spelling at the point of composition* develop a range of strategies for checking and proofreading spellings after writing* use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them (English Appendix ) spell further homophones spell words that are often misspelt (English Appendix ) place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals (for example, girls, boys ) and in words with irregular plurals (for example, children s) use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words and punctuation taught so far proofread for spelling errors. * non-statutory
Year lesson plans Year Term overview Block autumn first half term Lesson / statutory spelling list personal Words ending /ʒə/ Words ending /ʒə/ Words ending /ʒə/ From Year : possessive apostrophe with singular proper nouns From Year : possessive apostrophe with singular proper nouns (peace/piece, main/mane, fair/fare) (peace/piece, main/mane, fair/fare) words: homophones (peace/piece, main/mane, fair/fare) personal : pair testing
Block autumn second half term statutory list learnt previously Lesson statutory list learnt previously Prefixes in-, il-, im- and ir- Prefixes in-, il-, im- and ir- Prefixes in-, il-, im- and ir- personal : pair testing Words with the /eɪ/ sound spelt ei, eigh or ey Words with the /ʃ/ sound spelt ch and the /ʌ/ sound spelt ou / Words with the /eɪ/ sound spelt ei, eigh or ey Words with the /ʃ/ sound spelt ch and the /ʌ/ sound spelt ou personal : pair testing Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable ( -ing, -er, -en, -ed ) Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable ( -ing, -er, -en, -ed ) Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable ( -ing, -er, -en, -ed )
Block spring second half term Statutory spellings learnt so far Lesson words: selected words from s learnt so far /ʃən/ spelt -cian, -sion, s learnt so far this term / s taught so far / s taught so far 7
Block spring second half term Statutory spellings learnt so far Lesson words: selected words from s learnt so far /ʃən/ spelt -cian, -sion, s learnt so far this term / s taught so far / s taught so far 7
Year Term overview Block Summer first half term Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin) Lesson Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin) /ʒən/ spelt sion /ʒən/ spelt sion /ʒən/ spelt sion Apostrophes for possession, including singular and plural Apostrophes for possession, including singular and plural Statutory words learnt during the year / statutory list that need further learning / statutory list that need further learning 0
Block summer second half term Suffix -ous Lesson Suffix -ous Suffix -ous Prefixes un-, dis-, in-, re-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto- / Prefixes un-, dis-, in-, re-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto- Words learnt so far Suffix -ly added to words ending in y, le and ic Suffix -ly added to words ending in y, le and ic Suffix -ly added to words ending in y, le and ic Words learnt so far Work covered this term Work covered this term