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Spellings – Grinshill Autumn Term

We will look at the statutory spellings for years 3 and 4 across the term – we will also be looking at different spelling rules and patterns. Sometimes your child may come home with extra spellings.

First half term

accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy/business
calendar
caught
centre
century
certain
circle
complete
consider
continue

 

Second half term

decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
early
earth
eight/eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
famous
favourite
February

Spelling overview summer term part 2 – Grinshill

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.

Spellings

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

improved thudded
spied dozed
mummified studied
replied flapped
multiplied tallied

We will have a test on Monday morning.

Kind regards,

Mrs Roberts

Spellings in Grinshill – w/c Tuesday 20th September 2022

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.

 

Spellings 13th September 2021

As mentioned in previous message there are no formal spelling tests anymore.

Adding -ing, -ed to root words

Rules

  1. If the final two letters are a single vowel followed by a single consonant, double the last consonant before adding -ed and -ing. e.g. root word – patpatting/ patted.
  2.  If the verb ends in the consonant letters, the endings -ed and -ing are simply added on.
  3. The y is changed to an I before adding -ed not not -ing e.g. varyvarying, varied
  4. The -e at the end of the root word is dropped before adding -ing and -ed. e.g. care – caring – cared.

Reminder

Consonants = b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l , m , n , p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z

Vowels = a, e, i, o, u

Spelling this week with additional endings

bob  flap  nod  rob  rub  stop  thud

fancy  marry  multiply  mummify  reply  spy  study  tally  vary  worry

bare  care  doze  improve  move  place  prove  shake  stare

Spellings

As a school we are now following a new spelling scheme. This will involve more spelling focussed lessons with regular testing across the week. Therefore, an official weekly test of spellings will not take place. You may of course continue to practise at home and the spellings will be on the website each week.

Thank you

Mrs Roberts – Deputy Headteacher and Grinshill Class Teacher

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