Year 5 and Year 6 Autumn Term Spellings Dictation - Worksheet

This worksheet is designed to help Year 5 and Year 6 students practice their spelling and dictation skills. The exercise focuses on statutory spellings that are part of the curriculum for these year groups. Students are challenged to write simple sentences from memory after they are dictated by a teacher. These sentences incorporate words and punctuation they have learnt so far, with a particular emphasis on the correct spelling of challenging words. Each sentence contains a word in bold, which is one of the key spellings students must master, and the exercise also reinforces the use of capital letters, speech marks, and full stops or question marks.

The Autumn Term spellings covered in this worksheet include a variety of words, such as 'accommodate', 'achieve', 'ancient', and 'awkward', among others. The dictation sentences are constructed to provide context for these words, aiding in comprehension and retention. For example, students will write sentences like "To accommodate someone is to provide a place for them to stay." and "He sorted the books on the shelf according to which genre they belonged to." This activity not only helps students to remember how to spell the words but also how to use them correctly in a sentence. Additionally, the worksheet includes a challenge question to further test the students' abilities to use multiple statutory spellings in a more complex sentence.