14 December 2012
Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two or more words sound the same but are spelt differently. All children have the same ones this week.
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.
| LO: homophones |
| there they’re their |
| which witch |
| some sum |
| brake break |
| threw through |
07 December 2012
The focus for our spellings this week, are all words that have the long vowel sound ‘ai‘ in with the suffix ed. These words all have the same sound in middle.
| LO: ai sound with ed suffix |
| rained |
| trained |
| exclaimed |
| sailed |
| obtained |
| failed |
| strained |
| maintained |
30 November 2012
The common suffix this week is ‘ic’. Look at the words closely. Only some of these words follow the rule of drop the y for an i. These are the words that have a y in the base word.
For example, the base word for horrific is horrify. Here the y is dropped for an i. Can you spot which other spellings follow this rule?
The rest of these spellings just have ic added with no changes to the base word. For example, acid with the ic added, becomes acidic.
| LO: ic suffixes and dropping the y for an i |
| horrific |
| magnetic |
| terrific |
| allergic |
| specific |
| acidic |
| photographic |
| organic |
23 November 2012
The spelling rule to chant this week is ‘double up for short vowel sounds’. They also all have a common suffix which is ‘ive’.
| LO: double up for short vowel sounds with ‘ive’ suffixes |
| narrative |
| attractive |
| massive |
| corrosive |
| connective |
| supportive |
| expressive |
| offensive |
16 November 2012
This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’. The adverb of these words is modified by adding either an er added or est at the end which changes the meaning. Children should learn all these words and see if they can come with some of their own.
| LO: drop the y for an i. | ||
| moodily | moodier | moodiest |
| hungrily | hungrier | hungriest |
| funnily | funnier | funniest |
| nastily | nastier | nastiest |
| crazily | crazier | craziest |
| greedily | greedier | greediest |
| angrily | angrier | angriest |
| healthily | healthier | healthiest |
There’s another spelling rule used in one of the spellings this week. Can you spot which one it is?
09 November 2012
This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’. The route word of these spellings has an ly added (or fully) and the y is replaced with an i. For example, cheeky becomes cheekily.
There are lots of types of words where it’s necessary to drop the y for an i. In this list, all the words are adverbs. That means they all describe a verb.
| LO: drop the y for an i |
| cheekily |
| funnily |
| crazily |
| lazily |
| healthily |
| luckily |
| hurriedly |
| beautifully |
19 October 2012
This week, the children have come up with some connectives that they struggle to spell. These will also help them with their report writing this week. For example…
Cars are ideal to get about from A to B. However, they do cause pollution and can cause accidents. Furthermore, it is known that opting to walk or cycle is much healthier. In other words, sitting in a car is not a way to exercise whilst travelling.
The spellings are a variety of different types of connectives – they do different jobs in a sentence. See if your child knows which ones they are.
| LO: connective openers |
| Meanwhile, |
| Suddenly, |
| Additionally, |
| Furthermore, |
| However, |
| Nevertheless, |
| Consequently, |
| Therefore, |
| In other words, |
| That is to say, |
Your child will only be tested on eight of these spellings. It’s important that your child remembers to have a capital letter at the start and a comma at the end.
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are all months of the year. You won’t be tested on all of them. However, you’ll have to learn them all as I’m not going to reveal which ones are going to be tested.
| LO: months of the year |
| January |
| February |
| March |
| April |
| May |
| June |
| July |
| August |
| September |
| October |
| November |
| December |
05 October 2012
This week’s spellings are all words that are contractions. That’s (a contraction of That is) where two words have been joined together with an apostrophe. Your child should learn both, but will be only tested on the contractions.
| LO: apostrophes for contractions | |
| don’t | do not |
| we’ll | we will |
| doesn’t | does not |
| he’d | he would |
| they’ve | they have |
| won’t | will not |
| we’re | we are |
| fish ‘n’ chips | fish and chips |
28 September 2012
This week our spellings are a review of the three previous lists. These rules are:
- drop the e for ing
- drop the y for an i
- double up for short vowel sounds
Not all words from the three previous lists will be tested. They will only be tested on eight of the previous words. There will also be a couple of bonus words which have not previously been seen but which follow one of the three rules.