Year 3 Spelling

It’s the summer…

…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.

Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:

• take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
• take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
• enjoy visits to the local library;
• spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
• take a trip to a museum or art gallery.

Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up.  Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!

08 July 2011

The spellings this week are all words that have an ‘ed’ ending. Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise numbers 1-10.

1. asked
2. looked
3. showed
4. stopped
5. dragged
6. explored
7. touched
8. travelled
9. bewildered
10. abandoned

The spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July.

01 July 2011

The spellings this week are a mixture of ‘ing’ words.

• Some follow the ‘double up for a short vowel’ sound rule.
• Some follow the drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ rule.
• Some just need ‘ing’ adding to the word.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 08 July.

1. trail                         trailing

2. crave                      craving

3. love                        loving

4. drop                       dropping

5. admit                     admitting

6. brave                     braving

8. complete              completing

9. decide                   deciding

10. convince              convincing

24 June 2011

The spellings this week are all words which require a letter to be doubled up because of a short vowel sound just before.

For example: hopping. The short ‘o’ (different to the ‘o’ in ‘hope’) sound means that the ‘p’ must be doubled up. (If it was a long ‘o’ sound the word would be hoping and wouldn’t need a double ‘p’.)

Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs should practise 1-10.

1. follow
2. happy
3. banning
4. swimming
5. batter
6. spinner
7. trigger
8. different
9. accommodation

Spellings will be tested on Friday 29 June. Practise hard!

17 June 2011

The spellings this week are all words that end in ‘ch’, ‘sh’ or ‘ss’ and take ‘es’ endings. For example, the plural of witch is witches.

Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. church        churches

2. touch         touches

3. wash          washes

4. clash          clashes

5. class           classes

6. watch        watches

7. miss            misses

8. scratch       scratches

9. embarrass     embarrasses

10. approach     approaches

The spellings will be tested on Friday 24 June.

10 June 2011

The spelling rule for this week is an old but important spelling rule that we are practising again. It is drop ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’. Nouns and verbs practise 1-8 and adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. smile           smiling

2. drive           driving

3. shine          shining

4. time            timing

5. write          writing

6. like             liking

7. come          coming

8. arrive         arriving

9. believe      believing

10. amaze      amazing  

Practise hard and you will get full marks.

13 May 2011

The spellings this week are all words that have silent letters within them. Nouns and verbs practise 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. knife

2. write

3. when

4. could

5. would

6. should

7. knock

8. know

9. wrinkle

10. honest     

The spellings will be tested on Friday 20 May.

06 May 2011

The spellings this week are all words that we can shorten using an apostrophe (these are called contractions). We’ve done these spellings before, but it’s still an objective we need to practise.

Nouns and verbs practise 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. do not                    don’t

2. can not                  can’t

3. is not                      isn’t

4. does not               doesn’t

5. will not                  won’t

6. I have                    I’ve

7. I am                        I’m

8. I will                       I’ll

9. here is                   here’s

10. could have          could’ve

Spellings will be tested on Friday 13 May.

28 April 2011

The spellings this week are all high frequency words. Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. across

2. almost

3. could

4. next

5. should

6. where

7. thought

8. although

9. important

10. through

The spellings will be tested on Friday 06 May.

21 April 2011

The spellings this week are all high frequency words. Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. about  

2. because

3. before

4. every

5. think

6. knew

7. might

8. would

9. thought

10. suddenly

The spellings will be tested on Thursday 28 April.