12 free spelling resources for Year 5, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Spelling is pattern recognition. Lists here are grouped by pattern (digraphs, magic e, suffixes, silent letters) so students learn the rule, not just the words. Each list includes practice activities and a parent-led test.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students tackle the homophone pairs that trip up even confident spellers: whose/who's, its/it's, your/you're, weather/whether, and the New…
Students master the homophones they write most often: to, too and two; hear and here; right and write; one and won; know and no; and by,…
Students learn the meanings of common homophone pairs such as bear and bare, flour and flower, tail and tale, sail and sale, hole and…
Choose the right homophone (words that sound the same but are spelled differently) to complete each sentence: to/too/two,…
Add a suffix to the end of a word, learn what -ful and -less mean, and spell words where the base word changes (happy → happiness). Starts…
Choose the right homophone (words that sound the same but are spelled differently) to complete each sentence: to/too/two,…
Add a suffix to the end of a word, learn what -ful and -less mean, and spell words where the base word changes (happy → happiness).…
Choose the right homophone (words that sound the same but are spelled differently) to complete each sentence: to/too/two,…
Add a suffix to the end of a word, learn what -ful and -less mean, and spell words where the base word changes (happy → happiness). A…
Word lists with practice activities.
Fifteen words that end in the suffix -tion, pronounced 'shun', such as station and celebration. Your child writes each word three times,…
Fifteen common homophones: words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things (their, there, they're; here,…
Fifteen words where c makes an 's' sound (city, circle) or g makes a 'j' sound (giant, bridge). Your child learns that this usually…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
