Year 4 Spelling

03 February 2012

This week’s spellings are slightly different. Instead of a list of words, I simply want your child to be able to distinguish between the two forms of no:

no – For example: No, I don’t want to play.

know – For example: I know my times tables.

We’ll be looking at this through the week, but if you could practise these activities at home it will ensure your child has a thorough understanding:

1. On piece of paper, write no on one side and know on the other. Read out a sentence and they have to show the correct no.
2. Have some sample sentences where they write the correct form of no. For example:

• I know my spellings.  (know)
• There is no way through.  (no)

If you have any questions, feel free to speak with me any time.

27 January 2011

This week’s spellings are all verbs in the past tense that end with ‘ed’.

The suffix ‘ed’ features in a lot of past tense verbs which will help your child with their narrative writing at the moment.

20 January 2011

This week’s spellings are slightly different. Instead of a list of words, I simply want your child to be able to distinguish between the two forms of  its:

its  – belonging to something, no apostrophe

it’s – a contraction, like we learnt last week, of ‘it is’

We’ll (another contraction!) be looking at this through the week, but if you could practise these activities at home it will ensure your child has a thorough understanding.

1. On piece of paper, write its on one side and it’s on the other. Read out a sentence and they have to show the correct its.
2. Have some sample sentences where they write the correct form of its. For example:

• Whose coat is this? ____ mine!  (It’s)
• The cat wagged _____ tail.  (its)

A good way to distinguish between the two is to check whether the sentence sounds correct if you substitute the word for ‘it is’. If you can do this, then the correct form is it’s. If it doesn’t seem to make sense, then the correct form is its.

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to come and speak to me.

13 January 2012

This week’s spellings are all words that include contractions.

06 January 2012

This week’s spellings are all words that include the contraction n’t.

09 December 2011

Spelling Rule:

This week’s spellings include all the spellings the children have done on suffixes over the past 3 weeks. The children will be tested on spellings they have been set from the previous lists (suffix al, ary and ic).

02 December 2011

This week’s spellings are all words that with the suffix ‘ary’.

25 November 2011

This week’s spellings are all describing words (adjectives) that use the suffix ‘al’.

18 November 2011

Spelling Rule:

This week’s spellings are all describing with the suffix ‘ic’.

11 November 2011

This week’s spellings are all two words that are joined together with a hyphen to form one adjective.

All the adjectives fit with our current literacy learning: promotional writing.  Look out for words like these in adverts and leaflets.

As part of Takeover Day, the children contributed some of these words.