Year 4 Spelling

17 May 2013

Posted on Thursday 16 May 2013 by

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).

LO: words that contain ou
shout
hour
pour
yours
foul
would
mourn
route
journey
could

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 May 2013

Posted on Monday 13 May 2013 by

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).

LO: words that contain ea
bear
wear
learn
yearn
heart
dear
fear
dreary
leader
meaner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

03 May 2013

Posted on Thursday 02 May 2013 by

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).

LO: words that contain ice
practice (the noun, not the verb, to practise)
notice
police
nice
twice
dice
apprentice
mice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Posted on Friday 26 April 2013 by Mr Wilks

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.

1. slight
2. bright
3. delight
4. fright
5. insight
6. tonight
7. eight
8. weight
9. freight
10. height

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

Posted on Friday 19 April 2013 by

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.

LO: words that contain ough
rough
tough
enough
plough
thought
through
though
trough
cough

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

22 March 2013

Posted on Friday 22 March 2013 by

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

All the spellings here are high-frequency words. That means they are all words that are used often. Like last week, continue to sound out the vowel sounds with your child so that they associate the short vowel sound with the doubled-up consonant.

LO: double-up for short vowel sounds
common
pillow
suddenly
swimming
sorry
kettle
follow
swallow

15 March 2013

Posted on Friday 15 March 2013 by

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

With your child, compare the word with the long vowel sound in the first list (diner), with the short vowel sound in the second list (dinner). Usually, the words don’t share meaning (eg pole to pollen). However, by sounding out each word it becomes clear which word requires a double-up of the consonant and which do not.

LO: double up for short vowel sounds
diner dinner
biter bitter
coma comma
writing written
taped tapped
hoped hopped
super supper
slope sloppy

 

 

 

 

 

 

08 March 2013

Posted on Thursday 07 March 2013 by

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

The spellings are all verbs. When the suffix ed is added, it requires us to double up the consonant after the short vowel sound.

For example, ho+ed becomes hopped (rather than hoped, which has a longer ‘oh’ sound).

LO: double up for short vowel sounds
drag dragged
shop shopped
rub rubbed
trip tripped
cram crammed
travel travelled
ban banned
stop stopped

 

 

 

 

 

01 March 2013

Posted on Friday 01 March 2013 by

This week we’re revisiting some common homophones. A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but is spelt differently.

LO: To use the correct homophone.
where wear we’re
two too to
no know
are our

The individual words aren’t too tricky but the real challenge is being able to use them at the correct time. Year 4 therefore need to practise using the right homophone in sentences, which is how they will be tested.

08 February 2013

Posted on Friday 08 February 2013 by

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about plurals.

This week, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt about plurals. The test next week will be on:

  • plurals where you just add s
  • plurals where you add es
  • plurals that end with ies
  • plurals that end with ves

There will be no more than eight spellings from the four lists. However, I will not reveal which ones they are until the test.

Good luck!