Spelling

18 March 2016

This week, your child has been given a copy of the Year 3/4 spelling list. They must pick 10 spellings that follow the rule double up for a short vowel sound. Words that follow this rule include comma (compare the sound of the ‘o’ with coma, where there is no double up), hopping (compared with hoping) and funny. Why not ask your child to identify the short vowel sound in each of these words. 

18 March 2016

Spellings this week are not one specific list. The children have gone through their English book and picked out words they have spelt incorrectly in the past in order to learn these and not make the same mistake again.

It’s best if ten minutes of each day is given to practising spellings and we’ve looked at lots of different ways in which we can practise in class.

• word shapes
• word pyramids
• missing vowels
• create a crossword
• make it into a wordsearch
• good old look, write, cover, check.

These spellings will be tested on Thursday 24 March.

11 March 2016

This week’s spellings all contain negative prefixes. Negative prefixes change the meaning of the root word to the opposite. Your child will need to be able to spell all the root words below and know which negative prefix can be applied (for example, misappear will count as an incorrect answer in Friday’s test). Your child only has the root words in their learning list but if they get stuck identifying which negative prefix to apply, they are as follows:

disappear
inconsistent
unfair
unhappily
unusually
infamous
misunderstand
disadvantage
mismatch
unjust

11 March 2016

Here are the spellings for this week:

04 March 2016

This week’s selling all have a negative prefix. This makes the new word mean the opposite of the root word (so untidy means messy, the opposite of tidy).

As well as the eight below, your child needs to find two more words with a negative prefix which they will be tested on on Friday.

• disappoint
• disagree
• disobey
• misbehave
• mislead
• misspell
• inactive
• incorrect

04 March 2016

Here are the spellings for this week:

04 March 2016

This week’s spellings all require ‘ed’ to be added for past tense and are words that we often make mistakes with in class (for example, by missing the ‘e’).

These must be practised in your red spelling book ready to be tested on Friday 11 March.

26 February 2016

This week’s spellings are all adverbs. Adverbs describe how a verb (an action) is being done.

sad sadly
usual usually
final finally
comic comically
happy happily
angry angrily
gently gently
simply simply
frantic frantically
dramatic dramatically

These spellings have all been formed by adding the suffix -ly or -ally to a root word. The meaning of the root word helps us to understand the meaning of the adverb. Take “running comically”. The root word of comically is comic, which means to be funny, so running comically would be running in a funny way.

Why not try spelling pyramids to help practise this week?

g
ge
gen
gent
gentl
gently

26 February 2016

Here are the spellings for this week:

26 February 2016

This week’s spelling are a little different. I won’t be sending a list of spelling for the children to learn but a spelling rule to practise instead:

double up for a short vowel sound

At home, see if you and other members of your family can think of words that follow this rule and practise these. Remember the different ways we’ve used to practise spelling:

• pyramid spelling
• word shapes
• missing letters

There will be a test on Friday and all of the words tested will follow the double up rule.