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Spelling

Tests

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Year 6 Spelling Tests

It is possible that your child will not know the meaningsof quite a few of these words, so make sure you either

explain the meanings or encourage them to look them up inthe dictionary. Learning spellings is a great way to extendvocabulary, so as part of their spelling practice, you could

ask your child to write each word into their own sentence toshow that they know the meaning of the word. A good gameis to get them to choose two words from their list at randomand say or write a silly sentence containing the two words.

It is particularly important that your child learns thedifference in meaning between the pairs of homophones

in Test 9 (words ending ‘ce’ / ‘cy’ are nouns; wordsending ‘se’ / ‘sy’ are verbs).

Try various different strategies for learning spellings: withsome lists you could write each syllable of the word on aseparate piece of card, then jumble up the cards for your

child to re-assemble. You could also practise groupingwords according to a certain criteria; for example, with the

words from Test 10, your child could sort the words into‘comm’ words and ‘com’ words. Can they see what all the‘com’ words have in common? (The m is followed by a p).

When you come to testing them, read out the wordsaloud in a different order to the one given in the list. Make

sure you look at any mistakes your child has madeand ensure that they focus on learning

these words over the next few days.

Towards the end of the school year, test your child on theEnd of Year Test. Make sure you address any issues before

your child moves onto secondary school (for example: ifthey struggle with a particular prefix or ending, make sure

you find other similar words for them to practise with).

 Year 6 Spelling

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Test 1Words ending ‘ent’

✓dependent

independentinnocent

decent

 frequent

argument

confident

abandonment

management

development

continentgradient

lenient

opulent

quotient

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Test 2Words ending ‘ant’

✓applicant

tolerantobservant

hesitant

 flippant

occupant

truant

vagrant

expectant

blatant

combatant

attendant

consultant

inhabitant

occupant

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Test 3Words ending ‘ence’

✓independence

prudenceabsence

violence

difference

persistence

excellence

turbulence

dependence

consequence

audiencebenevolence

condolence

essence

insistence

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   A   C   K

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Test 4Words ending ‘ance’

✓observance

tolerancesubstance

absorbance

appearance

assistance

acceptance

admittance

performance

inheritance

appliancedisturbance

 fragrance

grievance

balance

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Test 5Words ending ‘ancy’

✓discrepancy

redundancybuoyancy

truancy

vacancy

hesitancy

occupancy

infancy

accountancy

pregnancy

militancytenancy

vibrancy

vagrancy

consultancy

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   A   C   K

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Test 6Words ending ‘ency’

✓emergency

urgencytendency

 frequency

currency

absorbency

decency

transparency

agency

consistency

complacencyproficiency

leniency

 fluency

efficiency

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Test 7Words ending ‘fer’ (adding -ed / -ing)

✓refer

referredreferring

prefer

preferred

preferring

transfer

transferred

transferring

defer

deferreddeferring

infer

inferred

inferring

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   L   D   T   H   E   P   A   P   E   R   B

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Test 8Words with hyphens

✓co-ordinate

co-operateco-operative

co-own

co-op

co-dependent

co-write

co-produce

re-train

re-enter

re-educatere-habilitate

re-build

re-send

re-write

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Test 9Nouns and verbs: ‘ce’ / ‘se’

✓advice

advisedevice

devise

licence

license

practice

practise

prophecy

prophesy

adviseddevised

licensed

practised

prophesied

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   T   H   E   P   A   P   E   R   B

   A   C   K

   H   E   R   E

   R   E   L   A   T   E   D   W   O   R   D   S  :

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Test 10Words starting ‘com’ / ‘comm’

✓compost

comparecommunicate

community

competition

commendable

commendation

commence

computer

combination

commitmentcompetence

compress

commiserate

compile

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Year 6 End of Year Test:

abandonment

management

development

expectant

blatant

combatant

excellence

turbulence

dependence

acceptance

admittance

performance

accountancy

pregnancy

currency

absorbency

 frequency

preferred

referring

deferred

re-educate

co-operate

co-ordinate

advise

licence

practise

compare

commendation

commitment

(explain this is the verb –‘You need to advise her’)

(explain this is the noun – ‘driving licence’)

(explain this is the verb – ‘He needed to practisehis violin’)