Half term 5 – new spelling list
Year 3,4
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: sh (ch, ss, ti, s)
- alternative graphemes: k (ch)
- adding prefixes: mis, re
- adding prefixes: sub, tele, auto
- spelling patterns: gn, kn
- homophones: piece / peace, main / mane, fair / fare
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| position | submarine | re-centre | television | gnash |
| piece | mention | autobiography | technology | kneel |
| peace | automatic | possession | misheard | character |
| misbelieves | main | reconsider | pressure | substitute |
| disappear | mane | ache | gnome | special |
| knot | stomach | fair | misremember | submerge |
| anchor | re-group | fare | should | rebuild |
| known | architect | build | telephone | teleport |
Friday 22 March
This week’s spellings are the days of the week.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
The spellings will be tested on Thursday 28th March.
22 March 2024
- helping
- raced
- dirtiest
- biker
- worm
- stuff
- fiction
- ground
The children will be tested on these words next Thursday 28th March.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
Friday 15 March
This week’s spellings are recapping the spellings from the past three weeks. We will have a test on Friday of 5 selected from this list.
are there your
were come here
was where some
love they our
friend once said
The spellings will be tested on Friday 22nd March.
15 March 2024
- where
- wear
- are
- our
- charge
- bridge
- large
- village
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 22nd March.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
Friday 08 March
This week’s spellings ae more we need to practise from the common exception word list.
are
were
was
love
friend
The spellings will be tested on Friday 15th March.
08 March 2024
- nicest
- latest
- safest
- bravest
- shiny
- scary
- noisy
- icy
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 15th March.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
Friday 01 March
We are continuing to recap our Year 1 common exception words.
your
here
some
our
said
These spellings will be tested on Friday 8th March
01 March 2024
- knocking
- knitting
- knowing
- wrapping
- gnashing
- wriggling
- writing
- they
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 8th March.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
Half term 4 spelling list
Half-term 4
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: ai, ee, ie
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- adding suffixes: ed, ing, er, est, ly, ful, less, ness
- adding suffixes: ful, less
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| favourite | clumsy (er/est/ly) | break | fruit (ful/less) | son |
| grate | straight | brake | shouldn’t | sun |
| great | isn’t | believe | wouldn’t | don’t |
| begin (ing/er) | doubt (ful/less) | build (ing/er) | complete | didn’t |
| describe | heart (less) | haven’t | busy (er/est/ed/ing) | increase |
| thought (ful,less) | bicycle | surprise | increase | thank (ful/less) |
| eight | appear | separate (ly,ed,ing) | weight(less, ness) | one |
| ate | rest (ful/less) | achieve | wait | won |
Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.
How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn eight words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.
However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.
Each week, the children will be tested on 8 of the words. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.
If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.