Year 3 & 4 Spelling

05 June 2023

Posted on Monday 26 June 2023 by Mr Catherall

This half-term, instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would.

We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

possession

attention

confusion

fraction

mission

explosion

because

decide

describe

exercise

surprise

increase

height

beautiful

medal

meddle

mist

missed

who’s

whose

accident

bicycle

decide

sentence

experience

centre

friend

guard

guide

guest

natural

material

actual

arrival

personal

mammal

guess

people

really

every

 

21 April 2023

Posted on Friday 21 April 2023 by Mr Catherall

This half-term, instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would.

We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

adventure

anticlockwise

ball

bawl

capture

caught

delicious

feature

forward

history

immaterial

impatient

impolite

important

impossible

independent

inexperienced

infamous

international

machine

mail

male

measure

mention

naughty

ordinary

pleasure

position

possession

pressure

quarter

scene

seen

should

special

sugar

supernatural

therefore

thought

treasure

 

3 February 2023

Posted on Tuesday 07 February 2023 by Mrs Paterson

Our spellings for the final week of the half term are all homophones: words that sound the same but that have different spellings and meanings. Practise the following for a test on Friday 10th February:

there       their      they’re     here     hear     which     witch     two     to     too     where     wear     were

 

27 January 2023

Posted on Friday 27 January 2023 by Mr Roundtree

busy

strange

ordinary

particular

continue

accident

complete

surprising

occasional

probable

possible

20 January 2023

Posted on Thursday 19 January 2023 by Mrs Paterson

This week we have been looking at what happens when we add the prefixes -un and -dis to root words. Adding a prefix changes the meaning of the word.

Practise the following spellings in preparation for a test on Friday 27th January.

unkind      unfriendly      uncertain      unclear      discontinue      disappear      disbelief      disadvantage

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

16 January 2023

Posted on Monday 16 January 2023 by Mrs Paterson

In Week 2, we looked at different spellings for the “ie” sound.

Please practise the following words in preparation for a test on Friday 29th January.

bicycle    decide    describe     exercise     guide     height     surprise     replied     applied     why     slide     cried

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

9 December 2022

Posted on Friday 09 December 2022 by Mrs Paterson

For your spellings this week, we would like you to practise some of the Year 3/4 common exception words:

appear         arrive        believe      build        decide       different        enough       experience

25 November 2022

Posted on Thursday 24 November 2022 by Mrs Paterson

This week we’ve been looking at the rules for when we add -er or -est to a root word. For example, where there is a y, change it to an i when you add the suffix. Where there is a short vowel sound such as in hot, double up on the consonant: hot -> hotter.

Practise adding the two suffixes to the following root words:

nice     late     rude     brave     happy     funny     hot     write     tall     ripe

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

18 November 2022

Posted on Wednesday 23 November 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve been learning about homophones.

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and different spellings. This makes them hard to spell correctly when we’re writing.

This week, practise spelling these homophones. The best way to do this is to practise using them in sentences – think about your handwriting, too!

which

witch

wear

where

we’re

11 November 2022

Posted on Thursday 10 November 2022 by Mrs Paterson

This week we’ve been looking at words that have the “ue” phoneme (sound). There are a few different graphemes (letters) that represent this: ue, u, ew and u-e for example.

continue         peculiar           particular          queue           knew

rescue           amuse           venue           issue          conclude

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