Year 2 – Common Exception Words

fast last

father class

pass grass

plant path

bath people

Year 3 – Words with a ‘k’ sound spelt with ‘ch’

scheme chorus

echo character

ache chaos

stomach chemistry

orchestra technology

Year 4 – Plural possessive apostrophes with plural words

girls’  boys’

babies’  parents’

teachers’  women’s

men’s children’s

people’s  mice’s

Year 2 – The sound ‘or’ spelt ‘a’ before ‘l’ or ‘ll’

all ball

call walk

talk always

small wall

fall altogether

Year 3 – Creating negative meanings using prefix dis-

dislike disobey

discolour discover

disappear dishonest

disallow disbelieve

disapprove discontinue

Year 4 – Adding the prefix sub-(meaning ‘under’) and adding the prefix super- (meaning ‘above’)

submerge subheading

submarine subordinate

subway superman

supervise supersede

superpower superhuman

Year 2 – Adding -ing, -ed, -er, stand -y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant after a single vowel.

patting patted

humming hummed

dropping dropped

sadder saddest

runner runny

Year 3 – Creating negative meanings using prefix mis-

misspell mislead

mistreat misbehave

mistrust misprint

misuse misplace

misheard misread

Year 4 – Nouns ending in the suffix -ation

creation radiation

indication ventilation

relegation dedication

demonstration abbreviation

translation vibration

Year 2 – Adding -ing, -ed,-er, -est and -y to words ending in -e with a consonant before it.

hiking hiked hiker

nicer nicest

shiny shining

being

scary scaring

Year 3 – Adding suffix beginning with a vowel (er/ed/en/ing) to words with more than one syllable (stressed last syllable – double the final consonant)

forgetting forgotten

beginning beginner

preferred preferring

occurred occurring

forbidden committed

Year 4 – Nouns ending in the suffix -ation

information  adoration

sensation preparation

education location

exaggeration concentration

imagination organisation

Year 2 – Adding -ing to a word ending in -y with a consonant before it.

copying crying

replying marrying carrying

flying trying drying

skiing taxiing

Year 3 – Adding suffixes beginning with a vowel (er/ed/ing) to words with more than one syllable – DO NOT double the final consonant.

gardener gardening

limited limiting

offering offered

benefited benefiting

focused focusing

Year 4 – Homophones & Near Homophones

Cereal serial

check cheque

through threw

draft draught

stares stairs

Year 2 – Adding -ed, -er, and est to a word ending in -y with a consonant before it

copier copied

happier happiest

cried replied

tried dried

driest funnier

Year 3 – Words with short ‘i’ sound spelt with ‘y’

myth gym

Egypt pyramid

mystery hymn

system symbol

lyric typical

Year 4Homophones &near Homophones

accept except

affect effect

aloud allowed

weather whether

whose who’s