Year 5 spelling words – 14 of the best worksheets and resources for KS2 SPaG

Year 5 spelling words – 14 of the best worksheets and resources for KS2 SPaG

Start your UKS2 students off on the right spelling foot with these worksheets, lessons, activities, games and more…

by Teachwire

1 | Year 5 spelling word list

Nowhere better to start than the actual list of 100 common exception words that are statutory for year 5 and 6 students to know how to spell, right?

Presuming you haven’t got them committed to memory from ‘accommodate’ to ‘yacht’ this PDF on the Oxford Owl website has them clearly listed all on one page, it can be downloaded freely without signup and there’s no coloured background that will waste school ink if you want to print it out.

2 | Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling Words (SSW) practise packs

These Y5/6 statutory spelling word (SSW) packs allow pupils to practise reading and spelling a selection of the statutory spellings for Y5 and 6.

Each worksheet includes two words for pupils to read, spell and understand, with an opportunity to practise handwriting, making them perfect for independent practice during spelling lessons, for use as revision activities and for home learning.

There are 12 packs available, one for each half term throughout Years 5 and 6, together covering all of the statutory words in the spelling curriculum.

You can find all 12 packs here.

3 | Year 5 spellings word mats and cards

This pack has been put together to support teachers in ensuring that children are familiar with the Years 5 and 6 statutory spelling words.

The words are presented on cards for display; and as mats that can be used for table work, plus assessment sheets are also included, so teachers can tick off words as they are learnt.

4 | Year 5 spelling revision worksheet

These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 5 and 6 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.

There are seven two-page ‘Spelling Review’ worksheets (alongside an accompanying answers document and teacher notes) that cover various spelling patterns.

Each worksheet sets students the following tasks:

• Identify misspelt words within a grid and write the words spelt correctly beside them
• Identify eight scrambled words within a grid and write the correct word beside each – the words in question can all be found in unscrambled form in an adjacent panel containing a total of 12 words
• Complete four empty text fields with the letters of missing word, hinted at by an accompanying clue. The words in question can also be found in the panel used in the previous task

5 | Year 5 spellings SATs practice papers

This pack contains six practice SATs papers for KS2. These SATs spelling tests are perfect for assessment at the end of each half term of Year 5.

Each Year 5 spelling test worksheet contains 20 questions and an answer sheet, and a question overview list indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question, so that you can easily see which spelling patterns need further support.

6 | Year 5/6 spelling review

These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 5 and 6 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.

All of the Year 5 and 6 spelling words are covered across five challenging worksheets, each containing three different types of spelling check challenges, including anagrams and cryptic clues.

7 | Custom word lists

At SpellingFrame you pick a year group, then a spelling rule, then get a word list to either view, print or test yourself with online.

So, for example, you can choose from adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable, words with the /s/ sound spelt sc, homophones and near-homophones, and more.

IN the interactive tests, children can opt to have the entire sentence read out, or just the word they need to spell.

Head to spellingframe.co.uk to check out all the options.

8 | Year 5 spelling bingo

This spelling Bingo resource pack is a fun way to support children in Year 5 and above in practising key spelling patterns. It revisits spelling patterns from Lower Key Stage 2 as well as Year 5 and 6 spelling patterns, and can be played as a class or in small groups.

Included in this pack are 30 bingo cards each containing 16 words containing spelling patterns from Key Stage 2, and a tick list to mark off the spelling patterns called out.

9 | Year 5 spelling anagram game

This fun little interactive game lets students work out the anagrams from a list of words all taken from the Year 5 spelling list.

Just click the letters on the bouncing balls in the right order to spell the words out and cross them off list.

10 | Years 5 and 6 spelling word search revision pack

Help children to master all of the words from the Year 5 and 6 spelling lists with these word search activities.

There are seven different word searches in this pack which together cover all of the Year 5 and Year 6 spellings on the English curriculum.

One version provides a list of the words pupils are looking for, while in a more challenging version children have to find the words without guidance.

Answer sheets for all the word searches are included.

11 | Year 5 spelling pattern resources

These spelling pattern resources come in three styles, there are posters, a word-sorting grammar game, crosswords and a wordsearch revision pack.

The spelling pattern display poster pack contains seven interactive posters illustrating Year 5 spelling concepts, and there are also graphics for you to make your own posters.

The Word sorting grammar game pack contains a variety of Key Stage 2 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups.

This crossword pack contains six crosswords, with answer sheets included. Not only are they a fun way to test and improve children’s spelling skills, the clues help to clarify word meanings, developing vocabulary and enabling children to use these words more confidently in their writing.

Finally, the wordsearch revision pack contains 10 different wordsearches. One version provides a list of the words pupils are looking for, while in a more challenging version children have to find the words without guidance. They are also asked to identify the spelling patterns, and explore the spelling patterns and vocabulary further.

Click the links above to check them out.

12 | Year 5/6 spelling workout worksheets

These spelling worksheet packs include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.

There are seven packs in total, just click the links to check them out:

• Silent letters
• -cious and -tious words
• -ough words
• Words ending in -cial or -tial
• -able, -ble, -ably And -ibly suffixes
• ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ Worksheet
• ‘-ant’, ‘-ance’, ‘-ancy’, ‘-ent’, ‘-ence’ or ‘-ency’ worksheet

13 | Tips for remembering silent letters

This short BBC Teach video has some handy advice for remembering the silent ‘n’ in words like ‘hymn’ or ‘autumn’, and the silent ‘t’ in ‘hustle’ and ‘wrestle’ among others. It’s well worth a watch.

14 | Spelling Crime Scene Investigators

This is a proof-reading resource suitable for Y5/6 children, including grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors.

The PDF includes a report about a class trip to a museum, and children are told that there are 19 spelling mistakes, nine of which are homophones, as well as eight punctuation errors and five grammar slip-ups.

Their job is to spot and correct them.