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

Christmas week spellings
Group 1 – Year 3
Santa elf snow ice magic
nice gift red tree elves

Group 2 – Year 3
Father Christmas reindeer presents elves tinsel
greetings magical glittering North Pole lights

Year 4
Decorations yule Christmas baubles hot chocolate
chimney carols singing Rudolph reindeer

Year 3 group 1
find mind behind old cold
gold hold told every everybody

Year 3 group 2
believe appear often group breath
continue arrive women describe height

Year 4
though although dough through breakthrough
thought bought brought fought ought

Year 3 group 1
cry fly dry try reply
sly shy terrify sky multiply

Year 3 group 2
basically frantically magically tragically
comically actually accidentally occasionally eventually

Year 4
invention injection action question mention
attraction translation devotion position solution

Year 3 group 1 (l sound spelt el)
camel tunnel
squirrel travel
towel tinsel
bagel hazel
vowel jewel

Year 3 group 2
When the root word ends in ‘y’ and has more than one syllable
happily angrily
lazily greedily
easily messily
busily wearily
cheekily clumsily

Year 4
Words with a ‘shuhn’ sound spelt with ‘sion'(if root words end in ‘se’, ‘de’ or ‘d’
expansion extension
comprehension tension
corrosion supervision
fusion conclusion
persuasion suspension