Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 6
RHYTHM has six letters and not a single vowel among them. Two Ys carry the whole word, doing a job the language usually hands to A, E, I, O or U. It is a small reminder that English spelling keeps…
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Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 7
YACHT is five letters long, and three of them — the A, the C and the H — conspire to make almost no sound at all. It looks nothing like it is spoken, and it is a fitting word to…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 5
QUEUE has five letters and only the first two make any sound. The Q and the U do all the work; the remaining U, E, U, E simply queue up behind them, silent and waiting. It is the most patient…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 3
FORTY quietly drops the U that FOUR insists on. We count four, fourteen, and then — without warning — forty. It is the kind of small inconsistency that catches careful spellers off guard precisely because they are paying attention. This…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 4
MISCHIEVOUS is a word children love to over-spell. They hear an extra syllable that is not there and write “mis-chiev-i-ous”, adding an I that does not belong. The correct word is simpler than it sounds — and that gap between…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 2
COMMITTEE doubles three different letters — the M, the T and the E. It is the only word on the entire primary spelling list to do so, and getting all three doublings right is a genuine test of careful spelling.…
Years 3-4 Statutory Words Set 7
ALTHOUGH, THOUGHT and THROUGH all contain the same four letters — OUGH — and all three say something different. It is the most notorious spelling pattern in English, and this small final set asks children to meet it head on.…
Years 5-6 Statutory Words Set 1
ACCOMMODATE has a double C and a double M, and the reason so many people misspell it is simple: they remember that something doubles, and then double only one of the two. The word needs both, every time. The Years…
Years 3-4 Statutory Words Set 1
BREATH and BREATHE differ by a single letter at the end, yet that one E changes everything — the vowel, the meaning, the part of speech. It is a small lesson in how much work a silent E can quietly…
Years 3-4 Statutory Words Set 2
CIRCLE contains two letter Cs, and they make two completely different sounds — the first soft, the second hard. It is a neat illustration of the single most useful rule in this whole set: the letter C changes its mind…
Years 3-4 Statutory Words Set 3
Most children can say FEBRUARY perfectly well. Almost none can spell it, because the way we say it — “Feb-you-ary” — quietly drops a letter the spelling insists on. The first R is the trap, and it catches adults too.…
Years 3-4 Statutory Words Set 4
HEART and HEARD look almost identical, yet the EAR in one says “ar” and in the other says “er”. English asks children to hold both in mind at once, distinguished by a single final letter — a small daily act…