Year 4 Spelling

28 June 2013

For the last few weeks of spellings, we will be revisiting three familiar spelling rules. This week’s spellings combine two of these rules:

double-up for short vowel sounds

and

drop the e for ing

All of the spellings double-up because of short vowel sounds. As for the second rule (drop the e for ing), because the route word of these spellings all have le on the end, when an ing is added the e is dropped.

For example,

wriggle with an ing added becomes wriggling and the e is dropped.

21 June 2013

The suffix we’re learning to use this week is ‘tion’.

Can you think of any more words that follow this rule?

14 June 2013

Over the next couple weeks, we’re going to be learning about suffixes.

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

A couple of the words follow a similar another familiar spelling rule when ‘full’ is added. Do you know what it is?

07 June 2013

Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two words that sound the same are spelt differently.

In these next two sentences there are five homophones. See if you can spot them!

Whilst most of the spellings are pretty straightforward, the challenge is whether you can tell which one is necessary for the sentence.

For example:

I have been/bean to the shops.

Can you write the correct homophone in this sentence?

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

This is the last week we’ll be focussing on a familiar set of letters. The letter string this week is ou. Again, these letters are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg out, pour).

10 May 2013

The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ea that are pronounced differently dependent upon which word they feature in (eg bear, fear).

03 May 2013

The familiar set of letters this week are going to be ice that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg police, nice).

Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.

26 April 2013

The spellings this week continue to focus on a familiar set of letters (eg ough, ight) that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg cough, through).

This week, the set of letters are ight.

Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.

19 April 2013

Over the next few weeks, our spellings are going to focus on a familiar set of letters (eg ough, ight) that are pronounced differently depending on which word they feature in (eg cough, through).

This week, the set of letters are ough.

Encourage your child to think about the different sounds they hear when they say the words, and encourage them to think of others, too.