SpellingYears 5–6Common Exception Words

Year 5/6 statutory word list

Spell words from the Y5/6 statutory word list: accommodate, accompany, aggressive, amateur, ancient, apparent, appreciate, attached, available, average, awkward, bargain, bruise, category, cemetery, committee, communicate, community, competition, conscience, conscious, controversy, convenience, correspond, criticise, curiosity, definite, desperate, determined, develop, dictionary, disastrous, embarrass, environment, equip, especially, exaggerate, excellent, existence, explanation, familiar, foreign, forty, frequently, government, guarantee, harass, hindrance, identity, immediate, individual, interfere, interrupt, language, leisure, lightning, marvellous, mischievous, muscle, necessary, neighbour, nuisance, occupy, occur, official, parliament, persuade, physical, prejudice, privilege, profession, programme, pronunciation, queue, recognise, recommend, relevant, restaurant, rhyme, rhythm, sacrifice, secretary, shoulder, signature, sincere, soldier, stomach, sufficient, suggest, symbol, system, temperature, thorough, twelfth, variety, vegetable, vehicle, yacht

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    Some words are tricky because they don't sound how they look. Let's learn one together! 🧙‍♂️

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    How many 'c's are in 'accommodate'? 🧐

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    Let's learn a trick to spell 'accommodate' 🏠

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    Build the word 'accommodate' by dragging the letters into the right order 🧩

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    Which spelling is correct? 🤔

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    Fill in the missing letters: a c c _ m m _ d a t e 🖊️

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    Now write 'accommodate' from memory! Type it below ⌨️

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