Year 4 Spelling

Half term 1.2 – Spelling list

Posted on Wednesday 23 October 2024 by Miss Birch

Y3/4 Spelling list for half term 1

Posted on Thursday 05 September 2024 by Miss Birch

In Key Stage 2, instead of asking you to learn a short list of spellings each week, you will be given a longer list (roughly 40 words) that we will focus on in that half-term. Don’t worry, we’re not asking you to learn them all in one week. Instead, we’ll ask you to focus on learning these words over the course of the entire half-term. There’s a few reasons for this:

  1. We want you take responsibility for your own learning and start to figure out how you learn best (there’s some ideas below). Even if that means making some mistakes along the way.
  2. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long-term.
  3. Similarly, lots of research suggests that if you learn something for a week and don’t come back to it you’ll likely forget it anyway
  4. We won’t have a ‘formal’ test each week. Instead, we’ll mix it up. We might ask you to test each other on the words you’ve been learning. We might test the words at random and then you’ll know which words you need to practise more and which words you’re confident with. We might just think about some of the words and share ideas for how we’re going about learning them.
  5. Ultimately, we want this to be about learning – and not just getting them right in a test.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all. However you decide to do it is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Every Friday, we’ll spend time practising or testing (informally) or discussing all things spelling so be ready (one of our 8 Rs for learning) to join in!

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

Half-term 1

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
  • ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
  • ‘drop the e for ing’
  • ‘drop the y for an i’
  • adding the suffixes ed, ing
  • homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

famous believe accident breathe answer
library passion notice were possess
century address favourite appear here
their weight complete ordinary wear
straight they’re surprise busy increase
session possible there hear where
suppose mission eighth extreme occasion
fraction different attention learn possession

 

New spelling list for half term 6!

Posted on Thursday 06 June 2024 by Miss Birch

HT6

Year 3,4

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

  • alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
  • alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
  • homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
  • alternative graphemes: sc
  • spelling patterns: que
  • alternative graphemes: u spelled ou

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

he’ll scenery bicycle mosque enough
heel decide possession direction mission
describe plain height surprise fascinate
league plane scissors increase magician
exercise fatigue groan unique country
guide confusion grown rain science
passion tongue fraction rein rogue
picturesque politician optician reign rough

 

Half term 5 – new spelling list

Posted on Tuesday 16 April 2024 by Miss Birch

Year 3,4

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

  • alternative graphemes: sh (ch, ss, ti, s)
  • alternative graphemes: k (ch)
  • adding prefixes: mis, re
  • adding prefixes: sub, tele, auto
  • spelling patterns: gn, kn
  • homophones: piece / peace, main / mane, fair / fare

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

position submarine re-centre television gnash
piece mention autobiography technology kneel
peace automatic possession misheard character
misbelieves main reconsider pressure substitute
disappear mane ache gnome special
knot stomach fair misremember submerge
anchor re-group fare should rebuild
known architect build telephone teleport

Half term 4 spelling list

Posted on Thursday 29 February 2024 by Miss Birch

Half-term 4

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

  • alternative graphemes: ai, ee, ie
  • homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
  • adding suffixes: ed, ing, er, est, ly, ful, less, ness
  • adding suffixes: ful, less
  • apostrophes for contraction and possession

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

favourite clumsy (er/est/ly) break fruit (ful/less) son
grate straight brake shouldn’t sun
great isn’t believe wouldn’t don’t
begin (ing/er) doubt (ful/less) build (ing/er) complete didn’t
describe heart (less) haven’t busy (er/est/ed/ing) increase
thought (ful,less) bicycle surprise increase thank (ful/less)
eight appear separate (ly,ed,ing) weight(less, ness) one
ate rest (ful/less) achieve wait won

 

Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn eight words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, the children will be tested on 8 of the words. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

Half term 2.1 – spelling list

Posted on Thursday 18 January 2024 by Miss Birch

Half-term 3

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

  • alternative graphemes: o, ow, oa, o-e
  • alternative graphemes: oe, ue
  • adding prefixes: un, dis
  • adding suffixes: ly
  • homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
  • spelling rule: double up for a short vowel sound

Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn eight words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, the children will be tested on 8 of the words. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

notice regular though accident two
witch (dis)believe wear peculiar different
difficult their particular we’re accidental(ly)
(dis)possess suppose (dis)appear too popular
possible appear hear famous(ly) (un)certain
there (un)important occasional(ly) regular(ly) surprising
which they’re where (un)kind (dis)allow
continue here to although issue

 

Autumn 2 – Spelling list

Posted on Thursday 09 November 2023 by Miss Birch

Year 3,4

Half-term 2

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

  • alternative ways for writing the long vowel ‘u’ sound
  • more homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
  • suffixes (for example, changing the root word ‘great’ to ‘greater’ or ‘greatest’
  • plurals (more than one of a noun)
  • apostrophes for contraction (eg can’t is less formal than cannot)
  • apostrophes for possession (eg Brian’s bag, the school’s logo)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

continue funnier/funniest potato(es) bicycle(s) writer
library’s peculiar you are / you’re group’s rescue
witch have not/ haven’t bus(es) knew I would / I’d
which where braver / bravest century(ies) has not / hasn’t
regular wear answer(s) they are / they’re later / latest
address(es) we’re do not / don’t particular conclude
I will / I’ll building’s happier/happiest will not / won’t groups(s)
heart’s nicer / nicest Earth’s hotter / hottest you will / you’ll

 

Spellings for this half term…

Posted on Thursday 07 September 2023 by Miss Birch

Instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would.

We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out this ‘Super Spelling Strategies Guide’ : Some-super-spelling-strategies

Half-term 1

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
  • alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
  • ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
  • ‘drop the e for ing’
  • ‘drop the y for an i’
  • adding the suffixes ed, ing
  • homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

famous believe accident breathe answer
library passion notice were possess
century address favourite appear here
their weight complete ordinary wear
straight they’re surprise busy increase
session possible there hear where
suppose mission eighth extreme occasion
fraction different attention learn possession

New spelling list!

Posted on Sunday 11 June 2023 by Miss Birch

This half-term, instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term. 

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best. 

Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more. 

Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would. 

We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home. 

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website. 

possession

attention

confusion

fraction

mission

explosion

because

decide

describe

exercise

surprise

increase

height

beautiful

medal

meddle

mist

missed

who’s

whose

accident

bicycle

decide

sentence

experience

centre

friend

guard

guide

guest

natural

material

actual

arrival

personal

mammal

guess

people

really

every

Spellings – Term 3.1

Posted on Thursday 20 April 2023 by Miss Birch

This half-term, instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term.

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best.

Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more.

Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would.

We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home.

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.

adventure

anticlockwise

ball

bawl

capture

caught

delicious

feature

forward

history

immaterial

impatient

impolite

important

impossible

independent

inexperienced

infamous

international

machine

mail

male

measure

mention

naughty

ordinary

pleasure

position

possession

pressure

quarter

scene

seen

should

special

sugar

supernatural

therefore

thought

treasure