Year 3 Spelling

24 November 2017

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation about words with a long ‘a’ sound. For example: ei in vein or aigh in straight.

• How many different ways can you find?
• Can you spot any patterns?
• Can you show your words in a creative way?

We’ll discuss our investigation on Thursday 30 November.

17 November 2017

This week’s spelling list is all about homophones: words that sound the same but have different spellings. We voted for the ones that we find most difficult, using our investigation from last week.

• Can you show the meaning of each word in a creative way?
• Can you write a sentence that contains both?

There will be a spelling test on Friday 24 November.

10 November 2017

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation about homophones. You need to find words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. For example: to break / to brake.

• Can you use your words in your own sentences?
• Can you find their definitions?
• Can you show your words in a creative way?

We’ll discuss our investigation on Thursday 16 November.

03 November 2017

This week’s spellings are from the Year 3 High Frequency Word list. In class, we had a vote to decide which words we found the most difficult to spell. This has formed our spelling list for this week and should help children spelling these words consistently correctly in future!

There will be a spelling test on Friday 10 November.

13 October 2017

This week’s spellings are all words with the prefix ‘dis-’ which has a negative or reversing force. We have used our spelling investigation to inform our list for this week. It may be useful to look at the root word and understand how the prefix changes its meaning.

There will be a spelling test on Thursday 19 October.

06 October 2017

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation. You need to find words that begin with the prefix ‘dis’. For example: disappear.

The prefix ‘dis’ is a negative or reversing force! How many words can you find? Can you spot any patterns? Can you show your words in a creative way?

We’ll discuss our investigation on Friday 13 October.

29 September 2017

This week’s spellings are all words where you need to drop the ‘e’ for an ‘ing’. If you’re not sure what any of them mean, find out. We may ask children to spell similar words that follow the same pattern. There are some easy words and some tricky words this week so make sure you continue to practise little and often.

Learn this pattern in preparation for the test on Friday 06 October.

22 September 2017

We continue to explore our spelling theme: ‘drop the y for an i‘. This week’s spelling activity is an investigation. You need to find words where you would drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ and then add either ‘ier’ or ‘iest’. This makes either a comparative or superlative adjective. For example: funny > funnier > funniest.

We’ll discuss our investigation on Friday 29 September.

15 September 2017

This week’s spellings are all words which need you to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. Then, you add either ed or es to make the past tense or a plural noun. If you’re not sure what any of them mean, find out. We may ask children to spell similar words that follow the same pattern:

Learn this pattern in preparation for the test on Friday 22 September.

07 July 2017

This week’s spellings are common errors that the children are making in their writing and errors they made in a recent spelling test. Learn them in preparation for a test on Friday 14 July.