Year 5 and 6 Spelling: Words That Are Often Confused
Choose the correct word in each often-confused Year 5 and 6 pair (advice/advise, practice/practise, licence/license, stationary/stationery and more).
Grade 5 · Spelling worksheet
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Year 5 and 6 Spelling: Words That Are Often Confused
Choose the correct word to complete each sentence and write it in the gap. Tip: in pairs like practice/practise, the noun ends -ce and the verb ends -se.
Word bank
AdviceAdvisePassedDesertLicenceDessertPracticePractisePrincipalPrincipleStationaryStationery
- 1.The nurse gave me good blank . (advice / advise)
- 2.I would blank you to rest. (advice / advise)
- 3.Football blank is on Tuesday. (practice / practise)
- 4.We blank our spelling every morning. (practice / practise)
- 5.A driving blank shows that you may drive. (licence / license)
- 6.The cars were blank in the traffic jam. (stationary / stationery)
- 7.Pens and envelopes are kinds of blank . (stationary / stationery)
- 8.We ate ice cream for blank . (desert / dessert)
- 9.Camels live in the blank . (desert / dessert)
- 10.The blank of the college gave a speech. (principal / principle)
- 11.Honesty is an important blank . (principal / principle)
- 12.Time blank quickly during the holidays. (passed / past)
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- DfE, English Appendix 1: Spelling (statutory) — Statutory word lists, spelling rules and example words are reproduced verbatim from the DfE appendix under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown copyright).