ENGLISH SPELLING BANK

DEPARTMENT Year 7 2010 (Lower Bands)

Spelling Group A Spelling Group B Spelling Group C Spelling D

-less, -er, -able -ly and –ful Compound Words 1 Compound Words 2
careless kindly everyone nothing
teacher hopeful nowhere somebody
homeless friendly something blackboard
drinkable beautiful football deadline
reader actually paintbrush grandmother
thoughtless forgetful upstairs everything
enjoyable especially clockwise somewhere
endless painful weekend playground

Spelling Group E Spelling Group F Spelling Group G Spelling Group H

Homophones 1 Homophones 2 Typical Plurals Hissing and Buzzing Plurals
be and bee too and two and to dog to dogs + es
new and knew their and they’re and there house to houses church and churches
right and write are and our boy to boys dish and dishes
through and threw I and eye day and days fox and foxes
see and sea heard and herd school and schools fish and fishes
no and know hole and whole girl and girls watch and watches
eyes and ice boy and boys box and boxes
of and have balloon and balloons

Spelling Group I Spelling Group J Spelling Group K Spelling Group L

Consonant + y words f and fe endings Irregular Plurals Irregular Verb Tense
Take off the y +ies take away the f +ves man to men Changes 1
city and cities calf to calves mouse to mice think to thought
try and tries knife to knives tooth to teeth buy to bought
baby and babies life to lives child to children tell to told
lolly and lollies scarf to scarves woman to women give to gave
party and parties loaf to loaves goose to geese go to went
worry and worries self to selves antenna to antennae can to could
eat to ate
swim to swam

Spelling Group M Spelling Group N Spelling Group O Spelling Group P

Irregular Verb Tense Adding ‘-ing’ – Simple +ing - Short Vowoels double +ing long vowels – drop the
Changes 2 clean+ing the last consnant e,
run and ran dream+ing Hop+p+ing hope becomes hoping
sleep and slept say+ing Plan+n+ing drive becomes driving
find and found go+ing Let+t+ing save becomes saving
write and wrote ask+ing Skip+p+ing share becomes sharing
sit and sat jump+ing Run+n+ing take becomes taking
make and made pack+ing Fit+t+ing decide becomes deciding
teach and taught walk+ing Clap+p+ing write becomes writing
hide and hid do+ing Hug+g+ing care becomes caring

Spelling Group Q Spelling Group R Spelling Group S

Commonly Misspelled S Commonly Misspelled S Commonly Misspelled 12
words 1 words 2 women
safety soldier autumn
Saturday stomach beginning
secondary straight tomorrow
separate strategy weird
sequence strength decision
shoulder success weight
sincerely surely business
skilful survey surprise