Year 4 Spelling

09 November 2012

Posted on Friday 09 November 2012 by

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

Posted on Friday 19 October 2012 by

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

Posted on Friday 12 October 2012 by

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

Posted on Friday 05 October 2012 by

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

Posted on Friday 28 September 2012 by

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.

21 September 2012

Posted on Thursday 20 September 2012 by

This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘double up for short vowel sounds’.

There are lots of types of words where you double up for short vowe sounds.

Here’s a selection of different types of words where the rule applies.

LO: Double up!
dragging
humming
funny
summer
swimmer
grinning
winner
spinning

14 September 2012

Posted on Friday 14 September 2012 by

This week, the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’.

There are lots of types of words where you drop the ‘y‘ for an ‘i‘. Here’s a selection of different types of words where the rule applies.

LO: Drop the y for an i.
cried
tried
crazily
lazily
healthier
trickiest
stories
berries
beautiful

07 September 2012

Posted on Friday 07 September 2012 by

This week’s spellings all have an ‘ing’ at the end and replace the ‘e’ in the root word.

The spelling rule to chant is drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.

There will be a bonus question where you will have to spell a word that follows the rule.

LO: Words ending with ‘ing’.
hope > hoping
write > writing
decide > deciding
make > making
smile > smiling
muddle > muddling
translate > translating
raise > raising

 

Can you come up with any more words that follow the rule?

 

 

06 July 2012

Posted on Friday 06 July 2012 by

This week’s spellings are all synonyms for said.

We are learning about news reports at the moment and these spellings will be helpful when writing quotes.

LO: Synonyms for said
stated
announced
declared
asserted
reported
recalled
added
remarked

 

29 June 2012

Posted on Friday 29 June 2012 by

The suffix we are going to be learning this week is tion.

Some of the time, these suffixes can be added with simply replacing the final t in the route word with tion. For example. correct and correction. However, there are a few exceptions which we’ll go through in the week.

LO: Words that end with ‘tion’.
correction
construction
production
variation
conversation
creation
examination
education