Spelling

15 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 22 March 2013.

Lions

Words that end in ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘x’, ‘s’ or ‘ss’ need ‘es’ instead of ‘s’ at the end when you are saying more than one of them.

• bushes
• foxes
• churches
• boxes
• brushes
• torches
• hisses
• buses
• wishes
• classes

Tigers

The rule is words ending in ‘le’.

• handle
• angle
• table
• little
• ankle
• candle
• able
• simple
• grumble
• dawdle

Zebras

These words are common words that are being spelt incorrectly.

• from
• some
• said
• went
• so
• do
• little
• one

08 March 2013

This week’s spelling is to spell words that end with ‘ck’, creating a hard ‘c’ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 15 March.

08 March 2013

This week’s spelling rule is:

If the word ends in ‘e’, drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.

These words will be tested on Friday 15 March.

08 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 15 March.

Lions

This week’s spellings are plurals ending in ‘s’.

• pencils
• buckets
• windows
• computers
• teachers
• friends
• stickers
• shoes
• clothes
• schools

Tigers/ Zebras

This week’s spellings are high frequency words (words that children will often use in their writing).

• about
• here
• very
• your
• time
• house
• Mr
• could
• Mrs
• would

08 March 2013

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

The spellings are all verbs. When the suffix ed is added, it requires us to double up the consonant after the short vowel sound.

For example, hop +ed becomes hopped (rather than hoped, which has a longer ‘oh’ sound).

01 March 2013

This week, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt throughout the year. Each day we will have a randomly generated test on some of the spelling from the year plus a bigger test on Friday.

Make sure your spellings are up to date in your learning  list book – if they are not up to date, use the website to help you fill in the gaps.

You might not remember the spelling, but see if you can apply the rules.

01 March 2013

The spellings this week are all words which have a short vowel sound and require a ‘double up’ after the short vowel sound. A lot of the spellings are also in the past tense so will practise our ‘ed’ endings again. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 08 March.

stopped

ripped

dropped

spotted

stepped

messily

happily

staggered

sniggered

spluttered

01 March 2013

This week, the children have been split into different spelling groups. You will know which group your child is in as it will be written on the inside of their spelling book.

We are revisiting split digraphs. This week we are looking at i – e. These will be tested on Friday 08 March.

Group M

Group S

01 March 2013

This week we’re revisiting some common homophones. A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but is spelt differently.

The individual words aren’t too tricky but the real challenge is being able to use them at the correct time. Year 4 therefore need to practise using the right homophone in sentences, which is how they will be tested.

01 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 08 March.

Lions

These are compound words. These are words that are made up of two other words.

• bedroom
• football
• goodnight
• handbag
• outside
• paintbrush
• playground
• weekend
• cupboard
• blackbird

Tigers

These are words beginning with ‘wh’.

• who
• what
• why
• where
• when
• which
• white
• while
• wheel
• whale

Zebras

Please practise these tricky words.

• saw
• come
• what
• have
• went
• was
• came
• the
• some
• and