Year 3 & 4 Spelling

10 May 2021

Next week, we’ll be recapping our learning about adding suffixes. Complete these activities.

29 April 2021

Next week, we’re learning about apostrophes for possession. There isn’t a list of words to learn. Instead, your child has a task to complete.

23 April 2021

The spellings this week all contain the or phoneme. This phoneme can be spelled in lots of different ways. We’re focusing on or, aw, au, augh, ough.

caught

forward

history

important

naughty

ordinary

quarter

thought

awful

drawn

26 March 2021

This week, we are learning about words that end in sure. Here is the list of words that you need to learn.

treasure

pleasure

measure

enclosure

closure

assure

reassure

leisure

pressure

19 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.

We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?

Watch out for words that don’t make sense! There is space to add four of your own root words.

12 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).

Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!

05 March 2021

This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.

Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?

 e.g. The root word of completely is complete.

 Spelling list:

• accidentally
• completely
• closely
• frantically
• particularly
• occasionally
• separately
• basically
• probably
• surprisingly

Week beginning 11 January 2021

This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.

11 December 2020

This week, we’d like children to learn how to spell the plural of a noun (plural means more than one). In the English language, there are a few ways to this. We’ll be focussing on adding s, es or ies. We’d like children to be confident spelling these root words and their plural forms.

Answer(s)                             century(ies)                                         group(s)                                bicycle(s)

Address(es)                          bus(es)                                                church(es)                            jelly(ies)

Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 18 December 2020.

04 December 2020

This week, we’ve been practising adding er or est to the end of words to change their tense. Because the English language is really tricky, there’s lots of ways to do this. Complete the table that shows you some different ways to do this (one has been done for you. Then, use some of our ‘super spelling strategies’ form this week’s post (go to the Scholes website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4).  There’s more than usual but when you can spell the root word you just need to apply the rule to spell it correctly.

Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 10  December 2020.