Bond Skills: Spelling and Vocabulary for Ages 9-10

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Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 years

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Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 A

Unit 1

All of the words are hidden in the word search. Once you have found all of the words, the remaining letters spell out a message that is related to your words. [ 17 ] 1

Beak

What is this message?

Beaker W

C

D

I

S

E

A

S

E

H

O

H

E

X

C

E

E

D

A

E

B

E

A

K

E

R

R

D

G

A

Death

E

A

T

H

R

E

A

T

L

L

Disease

A

P

H

E

A

V

E

N

E

T

Eagle

K

F

E

A

T

H

E

R

W

H

G

L

E

A

M

I

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Y

H

E

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N

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T

A

Cheap

Exceed Feather Gleaming Healthy Heather

B

Some of these words can have one letter removed and they will make a new word. Can you remove one letter from these words and write the new word that can be made? [ 8 ]

Heaven Speaker

1

Beaker

5

Cheap

2

Feather

6

Healthy

3

Heaven

7

Wheat

Weaken

4

Weaken

8

Threat

Wheat

Threat

Helpful Hint When we have double vowels a quick reminder to help us spell is: When two vowels go out walking, the first sound does the talking. So ‘ea’ often sounds like ‘E’.

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Unit 1

Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 C

Which of the three letter words in your list can be found in these longer words? [ 16 ] 1

Dehumanise

9

2

Martyrs

10 Argument

3

Anecdotal

11 Dowry

4

Budgerigar

12 Midyear

5

Polystyrene

13 Turban

Con

6

Coffeepot

14 Cobwebs

Dot

7

Archdeacons

15 Megaphone

Dye

8

Privy

16 Squashy

Art Ban Bud Cob

Fee

D

Gap

Place one of the following words in each space below using all of the words once: [ 10 ] art

Gum

Delighting

1–2

ban bud

con fee

gap hum

sty

tin

wry

To which two words can we add an ‘a’ to make another word? and

Hum 3–4

Ivy

To which two words can we add a ‘p’ to make another word? and

Shy

5– 6

To which two words can we add an ‘e’ to make another word? and

Sty 7–8

Tin

To which two words can we add a ‘t’ to make another word? and

Wry

9 – 10

To which two words can we add an ‘s’ to make another word? and

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Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 E

Unit 1

All of the words are hidden in the word search. Once you have found all of the words, the remaining letters spell out a message that is related to your words. [ 17 ] 1

Bath

What is this message?

Birch

N

S

T

R

E

N

G

T

H

I

T

H

F

E

T

C

H

E

N

S

E

B

A

T

H

W

O

Church

T

R

P

I

D

D

U

L

W

Depth

H

H

I

R

S

E

R

A

E

Fetch

B

U

N

C

H

P

C

T

A

M

N

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A

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C

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T

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T

H

Length

O

R

C

W

I

D

T

H

H

Moth

Bunch

Hunch Hutch Latch

Ninth F

G

An antonym is a word that is most opposite in meaning to another. Which of your words are antonyms for these words? [ 3 ] 1

Take

2

Weakness

3

Poverty

Pinch Strength Wealth

A synonym is a word that is similar in meaning to another. Which of your words are synonyms for these words? [ 4 ] 1

Nip

3

Power

2

Clump

4

Cage

Width

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Unit 1

Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 H

Place one of the words in each space so that each sentence makes sense. [ 16 ] 1

Ape

is an intricate pattern or decorative fabric.

2

Another word for ribbon is

Bore

3

A songwriter sets words to a

Cave

4

Around the coast we find a

Cove

5

An

6

Drake Fate Frame

. . which is a sheltered bay.

is an animal. means luck or fortune.

7

A border around a photograph or picture is called a

8

The past tense of speak is

9

The

.

is the cost or speed of something.

Kite

10 A

Lace

11 On a windy day it is great fun to fly a

Rake

12 To

is a hollow or tunnel in a cliff, hill or mountainside. .

is to drill a hole.

13 The past tense of weave is

Rate Spoke

14 The word shape up.

Tape

15 A male duck is called a 16

Tone Tune

I

Wove

22

A

.

. means a shade, or a musical sound, or to

.

is a gardening tool.

All of these words have an ‘e’ at the end, but some of these words would make another word if we took the ‘e’ off. Find six words that would make another word if the ‘e’ was removed. [ 6 ] 1

4

2

5

3

6

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Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 A

Unit 2

All of the words are hidden in the word search. Once you have found all of the words, the remaining letters spell out a message that is related to your words. [ 17 ] 1

Apple

What is this message?

Apricot G

B

A

N

A

N

A

W

O

S

R

A

S

P

B

E

R

R

Y

T

A

P

R

I

C

O

T

R

P

R

Cherry

P

I

N

E

A

P

P

L

E

A

Grape

E

D

S

T

O

H

A

E

A

W

Grapefruit

F

C

H

E

R

R

Y

M

C

B

R

H

U

B

A

R

B

O

H

E

U

T

A

R

N

E

F

N

R

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M

A

N

G

O

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T

L

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M

E

P

L

U

M

Y

Orange

A

P

P

L

E

G

R

A

P

E

Peach

Banana

Lemon Lime Mango

Pineapple B

Can you spell the following words backwards and then put these new words into alphabetical order? [ 10 ] grape

cherry

lemon

mango

peach

Plum Raspberry Rhubarb

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

Strawberry

Helpful Hint Some fruits make use of common spelling strings. If you can spell ‘cherry’ you can spell all of the ‘berry’ words (cranberry, strawberry, blueberry, etc.) and the plural of this ‘cherries’ gives you the same spelling string as all of the plural ‘berries’.

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Unit 2

Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 C

Can you use the words in your spelling list and the clues below to complete this crossword? [ 16 ] 1

Acorn 2

Armour

3

4

Bandage

5

Bandit

6

Bargain

7 8

Bathe 9

10

Birthday 11

Bitten

12

Blackbird 13

Bluebell Buttercup Butterflies Cupcake Damage

Across

Down

1 3 5 7 10 11 12 13

1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9

To physically harm A knight’s protective clothing Pretty insects A garden bird A tasty treat To be gnawed To go into a trance To celebrate our age

To get online information A wild flower The fruit of an oak tree To buy something cheaply To soak A spring flower Found in a first aid kit A thief or robber

Daydream Download

Helpful Hint 16

All compound words have to be made from two, or more, proper words so think about this to help you with your spellings, especially when they do not sound like their component words. 8

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Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10 D

Unit 2

All the words in your list are in the grid but only the first letters are here. Can you fill in the gaps so that the grid is complete? [ 16 ]

P L

P

D

C

C

Architect P

M

Actor

Artist

A

Chef S

C

A

A

Curator Dentist Doctor

N D

Librarian Musician

N

Nanny E

Which of these words fit the descriptions below? [ 8 ] 1

Who works with play scripts?

2

Who flies an aeroplane?

3

Who looks after children?

4

Who works with paint?

5

Who works in an office?

6

Who creates meals?

7

Who looks after our teeth?

8

Who designs buildings?

Nurse Pilot Police Priest Scientist Secretary

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Unit 2

Bond Skills Spelling and Vocabulary 9–10

All of the words in your list are in the grid but the letters have been replaced by numbers. Can you work out which number represents which letter so that you can fill in the grid? [ 18 ]

F

Amuse

4

Bike

26

Blade Blame Complete

17

7

10

19

9

5

25

7

Dome 4

1

4

18

1

21

17

7

6

7

13

22

19

6

7

13

26

A

L

16

9

5

B

M

7

1

13

C

N

13

13

4

18

D

O

3

13

3

E

P

25

F

R

G

S

I

T

K

U

16

19

12

25

1

13

17

Describe

Entire

5

25

16

3

Crime

5

6

12 12 1

25

6

13

1

5 17

7

13

10

13

3 21

1

16

4

13

13

File Flame G

Flute Glide Globe Primrose Strange

A synonym is a word that is most similar in meaning to another word. Which of your words are synonyms for these words? [ 10 ] 1

Entertain

6

Accuse

2

Slide

7

Finish

3

Offence

8

Whole

4

Document

9

Earth

5

Eerie

10 Blaze

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