Spelling

25 March 2022

Posted on Friday 25 March 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been revising some prior learning about adding suffixes to root words. In the English language, there’re loads of suffixes so being confident adding them makes a huge difference to how fluently we can spell and, therefore, write. We’d like you to practise adding the correct suffixes to these words in preparation for our weekly spelling test on Friday 01 April 2022.

build/ing/er     heart/less/ness     busy/er/est/ed/ing     natural/ly     weight/less/ness     separate/ly/ed/ing

 

care/ful/less/ed/ing/er     clumsy/er/est/ly

For some creative ideas on how to make learning spellings more fun, check out our super spelling strategies guide on the website.

11 March 2022

Posted on Friday 11 March 2022 by Mr Catherall

Children should practise adding ‘ful’ and ‘less’ to these words and a mix of both suffixes will be tested in class on 18.03.22.

– thought/ful/less
– care/ful/less
– harm/ful/less
– use/ful/less
– hope/ful/less
– rest/ful/less
– fear/ful/less
– doubt/ful/less

04 March 2022

Posted on Friday 04 March 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been learning about using apostrophes for possession. When used in this way, apostrophes (‘) show us that something belongs to something else. For example, ‘Jake’s ball’ shows the reader that the ball belongs to Jake. Or, ‘the school’s library’ shows us that the library belongs to the school. At home this week, we’d like you to practise adding apostrophes for possession to these words. The best way to do this is to use the words in sentences (try a mix of saying / spelling some verbally and writing some down.

Library          building        century        circle        experiment           February       group        question

We’ll test ourselves in a spelling test on 11 March 2022.

11 February 2022

Posted on Friday 11 February 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been learning about homophones: words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have a different meaning. The word homophone comes from Greek. Homo means same and phone means sound – this can help us to remember what homophones are. This week, we’d like you practise spelling these words. Because they’re homophones, you’ll need to practise them in context: either verbally or written in sentences.

brake / break           eight / ate          son / sun          great / grate          weight / wait          one / won

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 18 February 2022 to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

04 February 2022

Posted on Friday 04 February 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been learning about words that start with the prefixes ‘auto’ and ‘tele’. These words, which link to our Latin learning (kind of), come from Greek. Auto means ‘self’ and tele means ‘at a distance‘. Lots of words in the English language have these prefixes in and learning these words is another good way to practise our spellings. This week, we’d like children to learn how to spell these words…

automatic           autobiography         autograph          automotive          television           telegraph           teleport           telescope

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 11 February 2022 to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

28 January 2022

Posted on Sunday 30 January 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been learning about adding prefixes to root words. A prefix is a string of letters added to the beginning of a word to change it’s meaning. For example, the prefix ‘re’ can be added to the root word ‘do’ to make ‘redo’ – to do again. In our lessons, we’ve been focusing on adding ‘un’ and ‘dis’ which have a similar meaning: not. Children should practice adding ‘un’ or ‘dis’ to these root words…

possess     certain     advantage     avoidable     obey     aware     natural     decided

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 04 January 2022 to see how we’ve got on. For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here

21 January 2022

Posted on Friday 21 January 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been learning about contractions. Contractions are when two words are combined a letter(s) is omitted – and replaced with an apostrophe. We use contractions in our writing and our speech to be less formal. Your child should practise spelling these contractions…

Could not / couldn’t     are not / aren’t     I had / I’d     will not / won’t     has not / hasn’t     you have / you’ve     they are / they’re     have not / haven’t

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 28 January 2022 to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

14 January 2022

Posted on Friday 14 January 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been again practising alternative graphemes – different ways to write a sound. We’ve explored lots of different ways to write the ‘oo’ sound in the English language. To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.

popular      regular      particular      peculiar      continue      although      though       suppose

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 21 January 2022 to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

07 January 2022

Posted on Friday 07 January 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been again practising alternative graphemes – different ways to write a sound. We’ve explored lots of different ways to write the ai, ee, ie sound in the English language. To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.

Increase      bicycle      decide      describe      exercise      guide      height      surprise

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 14 January 2022 to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

10 December 2021

Posted on Friday 10 December 2021 by Mr Catherall

This week, because it’s the last week of term, we’d like you to practise any spellings you’ve had so far this year that you’re less confident with. Check out the spellings page of the website to see all the spellings we’ve covered in preparation for a recapping test on Thursday 16 December 2021.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.