Weekly Focus - 1:

Endings that sound like /ʃən/, spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, cian

Example Words:

These do not necessarily need to be taught/practised at home. However, if you are keen to, please feel free.

- ambition

- pollution

- confusion

- invasion

- discussion

- possession

- concussion

- politician

- tactician

- mathematician

Weekly Focus - 2:

Words with /k/ sound spelt ch

Example Words:

These do not necessarily need to be taught/practised at home. However, if you are keen to, please feel free.

- monarch

- chaos

- technical

- chemist

- orchestra

- psychologist

- stomach

- technology

- archaeology 

Weekly Focus 3

Words ending in -ly

Example Words:

These do not necessarily need to be taught/practised at home. However, if you are keen to, please feel free.

- originally

- boldly

- beautifully 

- eagerly

- perfectly 

- quickly 

- separately 

- necessarily 

- bravely 

- correctly 

Weekly Focus 4

Homophones and near homophones

Example Words:

These do not necessarily need to be taught/practised at home. However, if you are keen to, please feel free.

- stationary/ stationery

- coarse/ course

- practise/ practice

- current/ currant 

- through/ threw

- weather/ whether 

Weekly Focus 5

'ou' sound in 'thorough' 

Example Words:

These do not necessarily need to be taught/practised at home. However, if you are keen to, please feel free.

- thorough

- borough

Weekly Focus 6

the /i/ sound spelt y  

Example Words:

These do not necessarily need to be taught/practised at home. However, if you are keen to, please feel free.

- sympathetic 

- gym

- mythological

- pyramid

- mystery 

- lyrical

- crystal 

- cymbals

- Egypt 

- cylinder 

Weekly Focus 7

-able and -ible endings

Example Words:

These do not necessarily need to be taught/practised at home. However, if you are keen to, please feel free.

- sensible

- possible

- edible

- responsible

- invisible

- acceptable

- reliable

- comfortable

- probable

- remarkable