Year 3 & 4 Spelling

Friday 20 September 2019

Spelling Challenge:

We have been looking at the long ‘e’ sound in spelling lessons this week.

Make a nonsense story from the words below. Take care to spell the words correctly.

Friday 5 July 2019

Spelling

This week, we have started our Reuse, Recycle, Reduce topic.

We have found a link between these words and would like children to explore the prefix ‘re-‘

Learn the following words for a test on Friday 12^th July 2019.

• reuse, reuses, reusing, reusable,   reused
• recycle, recycles, recycling, recyclable, recycled
• reduce, reduces, reducing, reduced

Other topic words to learn:

• waste, wastes, wasteful, wasting
• environment, environmental,
• package, packaging,
• plastic

• Top Tips to learn spellings

1. Make a list of the words you have trouble spelling. …
2. Check word origins in the dictionary. …
3. Chunk it into parts …
4. Sound it out. …
5. Draw a picture …

Friday 28 June 2019

Spelling

This week’s spelling homework is a word search activity. The words are some common misspelt words taken from the Year 3 / 4 spelling list.

Tips: check the spelling of the word carefully before your child searches for it. Then, check every letter is included.

Challenge: Use the blank template to make one of your own either from the Year 3 / 4 Spelling list, or from topic words in class.

For example: refugee, migrant, choice, border,  movement, environment, welcome, language, safety.

Friday 21 June 2019

Spelling

This week’s spelling home is to learn the following words for a test on Friday 28^th June 2019. 

This list of words uses a range of prefixes and suffixes:

mistaken, careless, really, cheerful, carefully, tasteless, disagree, disbelief, happiness, usually, unaware, underachieve, television, automatic, submarine.

Friday 14 June 2019

This week’s spelling homework is an activity using prefixes and suffixes. It is due on Thursday 20 June 2019.

Investigate how the meaning of words change when a prefix (part of a word added to the beginning) or suffix (part of a word added to the end) is added. What new words can you make?

• How will the spelling change?

dis                              ed

un            use            ing

re                                able

Possible new words:

• used (drop one ‘e’ here)
• using (drop the ‘e’ for ing)
• usable  (drop the ‘e’ for able)
• unused
• disused
• reusing
• unusable

Challenge:   What new word type have you made?

See the homework sheet for more examples.

10 May 2019

Spelling:

As we’ve been recapping homophones learning this week, use and underline the correct homophones in a sentence correctly.

This is a common mistake in children’s writing.

where,      wear,     were,     we’re,     

there,     their,     they’re,   

 to,     too,     two

Challenge: What top tips would you give for remembering the difference between where,      wear,     were,     we’re?

18 April 2019

Spelling

Negative prefixes

This week, to improve the children’s spelling and understanding of unfamiliar words, we’d like them to do two things:

• Write a list of lots words that use a negative prefix (see the list below).
• Write lots of them in sentences.

Examples of negative prefixes:

8 February 2019

Spelling

This week, we would like children to investigate the suffix –ful.

Add –ful to the root word so the words become adjectives. Can you add it to any word?

How many words can you think of that has the suffix –ful. Create a list and write them in a sentence correctly.

Take care to only add one ‘l’ at the end and not a double!

skill – skilful , power – powerful, care – careful

1 February 2019

Spelling Practice

For this week’s spelling, we would like the children to practice the following words, which all in –ed, for a test (8 words) on Friday 8 February:

These are a mixture of verbs. Some end in e, so just need to add ‘d’, some need -ed and some sound like a ‘t’ but add -ed.

Most are taken from the Y3/4 spelling list and others from current work.

25 January 2019

Spelling

This week we have been learning about the suffix –ed , changing verbs to the past tense.

For example:

dance – danced (just add ‘d’ but sounds like a ‘t’).

hop – hopped (double the last letter)

watch – watched (just add ed)

For spelling homework, we would like you to create a word search using as many words as you can that end with –ed. Use the template provided.