Year 3 Spelling

25 September 2015

This week, our spellings will focus on a common spelling rule: double up for a short vowel sound.

1. different
2. difficult
3. disappear
4. grammar
5. happen
6. opposite
7. possess
8. possession
9. possible
10. suppose

Some of these words are included in the Year 3 and 4 spelling list in the National Curriculum. Therefore, it is key that your child knows these spellings but even more importantly, the rule that applies. When consonants are doubled up (accident), it forces the vowel in front to be a short sound (accident).

Feel free to pop in if you’d like some advice on helping your child to spell at home.

03 July 2015

This week, we’re practising spelling words which have a prefix – a series of letters which are at the beginning of a word.

• dishonest
• disagree
• disobey
• impossible
• impatient
• impolite
• rewrite
• recount
• refresh
• rethink

12 June 2015

This week’s spellings are nouns (singular to plural).

For some of the words, you have to drop the y and replace it with an ies in order to pluralise the word. Can you spot any other spelling patterns or rules in these words?

05 June 2015

This week’s spellings are common words that are often spelt incorrectly. A good way to practice these is to put them into sentences.

01 May 2015

The spellings this week are linked with our current science topic of magnets and forces. Also, in class, we’re looking closely at root words, prefixes and suffixes. Added to the end of the spelling list is an extra challenge. Using the root word ‘act’ the children need to build a word family. For example, actress, action, acting.

• repel
• attract
• magnet
• friction
• force
• iron
• copper
• pole
• materials
• gravity
• Extra challenge, use the root word ‘act’ to create a word family.

24th April 2015

This week’s spellings focus on prefixes and suffixes.

• untied
• unhappy
• dislike
• disagree
• dangerous
• comfortable
• impossible
• kindness
• decrease
• accidentally

Can your child identify the prefix or suffix in each word?

It’s Christmas…

…so teachers are not giving new lists of spellings to learn this week.

If your child didn’t do so well in the Spellathon, please make sure (s)he keeps learning the spellings that you teacher has set this term.

The Department for Education has set out a list of 100 words which children in Y3,4 should know, and a further 100 words for children in Y5,6.  If you’d like to give your child a head-start, you might like to support your child in learning some of these.  The lists can be found on page 54 and page 61 of this document.

(This list is new for 2014; teachers have begun to include the words in their spelling lists.)

11 July 2014

The final week of spellings is a combination of ible and able words. Children will be tested on eight words from the previous two lists. They will need to revisit both sets of words and ensure they listen carefully to determine whether it is an ible or an able word.

04 July 2014

Following on from last week, this week’s spellings all contain the suffix ible. Can you think of anymore?

27 June 2014

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix able.

Words with the suffix able are often incorrectly spelt with the suffix ible. A key to distinguishing between these two endings is that dropping able usually leaves a generally recognisable word, eg agreeable; dropping ible usually leaves a stem word, eg possible.