Author: Mr Wilks

The spellings this week are all words from the Year 3,4 National Curriculum spelling list. Click here for a link to the National Curriculum Spelling Appendix (the Y3,4 list of words is on page 16).

accidentally

believe

calendar

decide

disappear

experiment

imagine

favourite

Next week, we’re learning about apostrophes for possession. There isn’t a list of words to learn. Instead, your child has a task to complete.

The spellings this week all contain the or phoneme. This phoneme can be spelled in lots of different ways. We’re focusing on or, aw, au, augh, ough.

caught

forward

history

important

naughty

ordinary

quarter

thought

awful

drawn

This week, we are learning about words that end in sure. Here is the list of words that you need to learn.

treasure

pleasure

measure

enclosure

closure

assure

reassure

leisure

pressure

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.

We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?

Watch out for words that don’t make sense! There is space to add four of your own root words.

This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).

Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!

This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.

Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?

 e.g. The root word of completely is complete.

 Spelling list:

• accidentally
• completely
• closely
• frantically
• particularly
• occasionally
• separately
• basically
• probably
• surprisingly

This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.