05 June 2023
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
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
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
busy
strange
ordinary
particular
continue
accident
complete
surprising
occasional
probable
possible
20 January 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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.