Year 3 & 4 spellings first half term

answer, appear, arrive, complete, consider, continue, extreme, famous, favourite, important, increase, interest, occasionally, often, opposite, purpose, quarter, question, though, thought, through

But you can choose any off your list too, pick a couple each week.

Each week we learn strategies and rules for spellings and we pick the spellings that have been the trickiest over the week  to bring home to practise. We have  our test on Monday morning.

Wk1.  Reviewing common exception words from year 2. Year 3 and 4 word list

Wk2.  Reviewing ‘ar’ sound after W. New learning the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words.

Wk3. Reviewing adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -en to words.   New learning word families based on common words.

Wk4. Reviewing suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -ly. New learning contractions.

Wk5. Reviewing homophones and near homophones year 2. New learning year 3 homophones and near homophones.

Wk6.More homophones. Revisit personal spellings.

Wk7. Revisit spellings over the year.

Test on Monday 24th April

Based on our learning this week, these are the spellings to practice over the weekend.

We will have a test on Monday morning.

Kind regards,

Mrs Roberts

This week we are concentrating on spelling rules.

1. If the verb ends in two consonant letters the endings -ed and -ing are simply added on. eg. ask asked asking.
2. If the final two letters are a single vowel followed by a sing consonant, double the last consonant before adding -ed or -ing. e.g. pat = patted/ patting or stop = stopped/ stopping, rub = rubbed/ rubbing , flap = flapped/ flapping, nod = nodded/ nodding.
3. The y is changed to an ‘i’ before adding -ed BUT NOT -ing. e.g. reply= replied/ replying. spy = spied/ spying, marry = married/ marrying, fancy = fancied/ fancying, study = studied/ studying, worry = worried/ worrying.
4. The -e at the end of the root word is dropped before adding -ing or -ed. e.g. bare = baring/ bared, care= caring/ cared, doze = dozing/ dozed, move = moving/ moved, place = placing/ placed, prove = proving/ proved, stare = staring/ stared.

The children will be practising these over the week, with a mini test on Friday. A selection of ten will be sent home to practise.

Thank you for your support.

Please ensure spelling books are in school everyday.