Year 6 · US 5th Grade · ages 10 - 11
Year 6 spelling games and word lists
Free spelling practice for children in Year 6 (ages 10 - 11), based on the UK National Curriculum. Play letter hunts, spot missing letters and read short explanations for every word.
What Year 6 children learn
- -able, -ible, -ably, -ibly endings (comfortable, sensible, horribly)
- Words ending -fer with suffix rules (refer → referring, prefer → preferred)
- Homophones: draft/draught, principal/principle, stationary/stationery
- SATs Year 5/6 statutory word list mastery
Sample Year 6 words
accommodateconsciencecorrespondenvironmentimmediateoccurrencerecommendrhythm
These words come straight from the Year 6 statutory spelling list. Type them into Verbao's letter hunt game and the tiles will fall until your child finds every letter.
Tips for parents
- SATs reading papers demand pace - time your child on a passage now and then.
- Talk about the difference between retrieval questions ('what happened?') and inference questions ('why?').
- Verbao's readability score can show whether a text is pitched at Year 6 level.