Year 6 Review and revision of all taught spelling worksheet

“Suffix spelling patterns” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 English unit “Review and revision of all taught spelling”, for children aged 10 to 11, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 12 to 13 of the year, 3 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Suffix spelling patterns

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can spell words correctly when adding a suffix.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which word is spelled correctly? Circle one.
unkindunnkindunkinde
2.
Which is the plural of 'bush'? Circle one.
bushsbushesbushies
3.
Which word means 'not safe'? Circle one.
unsafeinsafeunsafly

B Watch me, then you4 min

Mia is writing a recipe. She needs bake + -ing to say what the cook is doing to the bread. How does she spell it?

Watch me

bake ends in an e, so take the e off: bak.

Add -ing to the new root: bak + ing.

The answer is baking.

Now you

1.
Which is the correct -ing word for 'hope'? Circle one.
hopinghopeinghopping

C Your turn6 min

Each question adds a suffix to a root word. Look at the end of the root, then circle the correct spelling.

1.
Stop + -ed. Which is correct?
stopedstoppedstoppped
2.
Hop + -ed. Which is correct?
hopedhoppedhoppped
3.
Hop + -ing. Which is correct?
hopinghoppinghopeing
4.
Carry + -ed. Which is correct?
carryedcarriedcarrid

Say it out loud: Which roots doubled their last letter, and which changed a letter? What told you?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “Hope plus -ing is hopping. You always double the last letter before -ing.”

1.
Which spelling of hope + -ing is right? Circle one.
hopinghopping

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Make a new word from 'mercy' by adding -less. Write it here: Then explain the change to your grown-up:

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Suffix spelling patterns · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. unkind If your child chose unnkind, they doubled the n. The prefix un- just joins onto the front of kind without changing it. Read the word aloud and try again.

2. bushes bushs means they added only s. Words ending in sh add -es. Ask your child to say the plural aloud: bush-es.

3. unsafe If your child chose insafe, they picked the wrong prefix. Both in- and un- can mean not, but safe takes un-. Say unsafe aloud together.

B

1. hoping If your child chose hopping, they doubled the p. Hope ends in a silent e, so drop the e and add -ing only. Ask what the e was doing.

C

1. stopped stoped means the p was not doubled. Stop has one vowel and one consonant at the end, so double the p before -ed.

2. hopped hoped is a real word, but it means wished, not jumped. Hop needs two p's before -ed to keep its short vowel sound.

3. hopping hoping means your child forgot to double the p. The same rule works for -ing and -ed when the root is one short vowel and one consonant.

4. carried carryed keeps the y. After a consonant plus y, change the y to i before -ed, so the answer is carried.

D

1. hoping Kit doubled the p, but hope ends in a silent e. Ask your child to drop the e first, then add -ing.

E

1. Look for: merciless with the y changed to i, because mercy ends in a consonant plus y.

Words to use

Say“Which letter is at the end of the root word? What does the suffix do to it?”

Instead of“Just tell them the spelling.”

After the sheet

On four cards, write hop, stop, hope and carry. Add -ed to each, then sort the new words into three piles: doubled, dropped e, changed y.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

2 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Same sound, different spelling(with a plan)
Spelling clues from origins(with a plan)

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