Year 5 and 6 Spelling Patterns: ei After c, ough Words and Silent Letters
Practise ei after c (receive, ceiling), match ough words to their meanings (bought, rough, through) and find the silent letters (doubt, island, lamb).
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Year 5 and 6 Spelling Patterns: ei After c, ough Words and Silent Letters
Section 1: fill in ei (i before e except after c). Section 2: write the ough word that matches each clue (choose from: bought, thought, rough, enough, through, cough). Section 3: write the silent letter in each word.
Word bank
BNSTCoughRoughEnoughBoughtDeceiveCeilingReceiveThroughThoughtPerceive
- 1.rec blank ve (ei after c)
- 2.dec blank ve (ei after c)
- 3.c blank ling (ei after c)
- 4.perc blank ve (ei after c)
- 5.An ough word meaning: the past tense of buy.
- 6.An ough word meaning: the past tense of think.
- 7.An ough word meaning: not smooth.
- 8.An ough word meaning: as much as is needed.
- 9.An ough word meaning: in one side and out of the other.
- 10.An ough word meaning: a chesty sound when you are ill.
- 11.Which letter is silent in "doubt"?
- 12.Which letter is silent in "island"?
- 13.Which letter is silent in "lamb"?
- 14.Which letter is silent in "solemn"?
- 15.Which letter is silent in "thistle"?
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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).