Year 4 Spelling

Friday 13th January 2023

This week’s spellings to practise:

• why
• light
• night
• try
• fright

OR

• bicycle
• decide
• describe
• exercise
• guide
• height
• surprise
• increase

The right spellings for your child to practice are detailed on their homework sheet.

Friday 2nd December 2022

This week, please practise words where we use the sound ‘oo’. This sound can be spelled in several different ways:

Friday 25th November 2022

This week’s spellings focus on adding er and est suffixes – a string of letters that go at the end of a word:

Friday 11th November 2022

Be sure to practise your spellings a little bit each day! Little and often is better than cramming your practice in on Friday morning before school..!

• continue
• peculiar
• popular
• regular
• particular
• queue
• knew
• rescue
• amuse
• venue
• issue
• conclude

…or you may have been given a separate spelling list. These words are:

• because
• every
• with
• many
• busy
• could
• should
• would

04 November 2022

This week, we’re thinking about homophones – words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

We need children in Year 4 to not only know how to spell these words but to also have the skill of knowing which word is the right one to use at the right time!

hear/here

break/brake

heel/heal/he’ll

berry/bury

whether/weather

buy/bye/by

there/their/they’re

to/too/two

where/wear/were

who’s/whose

Friday 14th October 2022

This week, are spellings are homophones – words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things. Your child needs to know which word is the correct version when given a sentence with a homophone in!

Why not check out this short animation alongside your child when practising spellings each day.

there/their/they’re

to/two/too

eight/ate

bored/board

stairs/stares

waist/waste

write/right

knight/night

your/you’re

break/brake

Friday 07 October 2022

There have been two sets of spellings handed out this week. Your child will have been given the correct spellings for them to learn.

This week, our spellings focus on dropping the y for i when adding ed and keeping the y for ing. Make sure you spot the different suffix, too!

worry – worried

carry – carried

happy – happiness

ugly – ugliness

creepy – creepiest

funny – funniest

sorry – sorriest

reply – replying

copy – copying

marry – marrying

OR

This week, our spellings focus on words we sometimes spell incorrectly in our writing:

with

what

said

which

where

why

could

should

would

who

Friday 30th September 2022

This week, our spellings focus on double consonants:

appear

different

difficult

possible

trapped

happening

opposite

arrive

hopping

clapped

Year 4: Friday 23rd September 2022

This week, our spellings focus on the ee sound. There’s lots of ways to spell the ee sound so it’ll be good practice to check we know the right ee sound to use!

breathe

complete

appear

extreme

increase

money

chimney

people

busy

quickly

Year 3 Spellings 23rd September 2022

Next week, we are focusing on the ee/ea grapheme.

believe

read

complete

appear

money

people

busy

quickly