Year 3 Spelling

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.

15 March 2013

This week’s spellings are a mixture of the previous week’s two rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits one of the rules. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

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.

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

08 February 2013

We are reviewing our work on silent letters this week. The children will be tested on any of the words from the previous two spelling lists. As always, they will be tested on eight words.

01 February 2013

This is the second week of investigating words which contain silent letters. This week, we’re looking at words with a silent h and words with a silent b.