Spelling Mixed Practice
Mixed Year 5 spelling practice: silent letters, homophones, dis-, mis-, -ation and -ible, and dictionary order by the third and fourth letter.
Year 5 Spelling Worksheets
Using dictionaries and a thesaurus confidently, alongside the Year 5 and 6 spelling patterns and statutory word list.
Year 5 English6 worksheets
Spelling worksheets to download
I Before E? Unscramble ei and ie Words
Year 5 ie and ei spelling anagrams: ten scrambled words with clues, three challenge sentences and a mystery exception word. Answers included.
Practice or Practise? Homophone Pairs Match-Up
Year 5 homophone match-up: practice and practise, licence and license, stationary and stationery, principal and principle. Answers included.
Silent Letters Word Search
Year 5 silent letters word search: find ten words including knight, psalm and thistle across and down a grid. Answer key with grid positions.
Statutory Spellings: The Year 5 and 6 Word List
Year 5 and 6 statutory spellings: Look, Cover, Write, Check for 12 words, joined handwriting practice and gap-fill sentences with answers.
Suffix Crossword: -able or -ible?
Year 5 -able or -ible crossword with seven clues, from adorable to incredible. Each clue gives the ending and letter count. Answers included.
Curriculum objectives covered
Spelling
“Use further prefixes and suffixes and understand the guidance for adding them”
Spelling
“Spell some words with 'silent' letters [for example, knight, psalm, solemn]”
Spelling
“Continue to distinguish between homophones and other words which are often confused”
Spelling
“Use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that the spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically, as listed in English Appendix 1”
Spelling
“Use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words”
Spelling
“Use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Learning the grammar for years 5 and 6 in English Appendix 2”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 accurately and appropriately in discussing their writing and reading.”
Handwriting and presentation
“Choosing which shape of a letter to use when given choices and deciding whether or not to join specific letters”
Get started today
Create your own lesson plans, worksheets, and classroom activities in minutes using our AI-powered tools.
Try Chalkie for freeMore Year 5 English worksheets
Reading Comprehension
Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied, and justifying inferences with evidence from increasingly demanding texts.
Writing
Using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs, such as adverbials, pronouns and conjunctions.
Grammar and Punctuation
Using commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing, and controlling punctuation across longer, more complex sentences.