Year 3 Spelling

21 June 2013

This week’s spellings are all words which have been used quite often in the children’s writing this week and spelled incorrectly. Unfortunately, many of the words are ‘double up for short vowel sound’ words which, despite the continued practice, are still being spelled incorrectly.

14 June 2013

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful. The suffix ful means ‘full of’. Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end it loses one of its ls. For example, wish and full becomes wishful.

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings are a revisit of words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are still struggling to read these words and / or write them correctly.

It’s the half-term break…

…so there’s no homework or spellings this week.  Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.

17 May 2013

The spellings this week all contain the ending sion. You’ll notice that this ending makes the same ‘shun’ sound as last week’s spellings.

Can you also spot the words which have a double up for a short vowel sound?

10 May 2013

The spellings this week all contain the ending tion, making a ‘shun’ sound.

There are other endings which sound similar but are spelt differently. Can you think of any?

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 17 May.

03 May 2013

We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week. The spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i. The first six words all drop the y for an i when they are changed into plurals. The final four words drop the y for an i when changing the word into an adverb.

26 April 2013

The spellings this week all us the rule double up for a short vowel sound.  Just before the double letters in the words below, the vowel has a longer sound – it’s the difference between dinner and diner, for example.

I know it feels like we’ve done this rule loads already this year but it is one of the crucial spelling rules and we still need to practise!

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 03 May.

19 April 2013

The spellings this week all have words which contain a silent h or k. Many of these words have been spelled incorrectly in recent pieces of writing.

1. when
2. what
3. whine
4. ghost
5. which
6. honest
7. knock
8. know
9. kneel
10. knight

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 26 April.

22 March 2013

This week the spellings are all ‘double up words’ because they have a short vowel sound before the double letter (think of comma / coma or dinner / diner).

These words also have an ‘le’ ending.  This ending is commonly misheard and misspelled as ‘el’ or ‘ul’.

The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Thursday 28 March.