Year 5 and 6 Spelling Patterns: -cious, -tious, -cial and -tial
Fill in -cious or -tious and -cial or -tial in the Year 5 and 6 example words (delicious, ambitious, official, essential and more), with an answer key.
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Year 5 and 6 Spelling Patterns: -cious, -tious, -cial and -tial
Fill in the missing ending, then write the whole word. The bracket tells you which endings to choose from.
Word bank
SpecialPartialOfficialPreciousCautiousDeliciousEssentialAmbitiousArtificialSuspiciousNutritiousConfidential
- 1.deli blank (-cious or -tious)
- 2.pre blank (-cious or -tious)
- 3.suspi blank (-cious or -tious)
- 4.ambi blank (-cious or -tious)
- 5.cau blank (-cious or -tious)
- 6.nutri blank (-cious or -tious)
- 7.offi blank (-cial or -tial)
- 8.spe blank (-cial or -tial)
- 9.artifi blank (-cial or -tial)
- 10.par blank (-cial or -tial)
- 11.confiden blank (-cial or -tial)
- 12.essen blank (-cial or -tial)
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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).