This Year 5 Spelling Baseline Assessment has been designed to save you time! Have a look at our Year 5 Spelling Baseline Assessment covering the domains for the suffixes -ant, -ance and -ancy, -ent, -ence and -ency, -cious or -tious and common exception words. This Year 5 spelling assessment pack also includes a teacher guide containing a script and further information for using this resource.

This baseline assessment covers the following spelling domains and you can also find further resource activity packs on our website to support your teaching of the spelling domains covered in this baseline assessment.

• Week 1: S53 – endings which sound like /??s/ spelt –cious or –tious

• Week 2: S54 – endings which sound like /??l/

• Week 3: S55 – ant ance ancy suffixes

• Week 4: S55 – ent ence ency suffixes

• Week 5: S55 – ant ance ancy ent ence ency exceptions

• Week 6: S37 – Common exception words