Spellings for term 1.1
Spellings – Half Term 6
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
- alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
- homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
- alternative graphemes: sc
- spelling patterns: que
- alternative graphemes: u spelled ou
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| he’ll | scenery | bicycle | mosque | enough |
| heel | decide | possession | direction | mission |
| describe | plain | height | surprise | fascinate |
| league | plane | scissors | increase | magician |
| exercise | fatigue | groan | unique | country |
| guide | confusion | grown | rain | science |
| passion | tongue | fraction | rein | rogue |
| picturesque | politician | optician | reign | rough |
Half Term 4
Year 3,4
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: ai, ee, ie
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
- adding suffixes: ed, ing, er, est, ly, ful, less, ness
- adding suffixes: ful, less
- apostrophes for contraction and possession
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| favourite | clumsy (er/est/ly) | break | fruit (ful/less) | son |
| grate | straight | brake | shouldn’t | sun |
| great | isn’t | believe | wouldn’t | don’t |
| begin (ing/er) | doubt (ful/less) | build (ing/er) | complete | didn’t |
| describe | heart (less) | haven’t | busy (er/est/ed/ing) | increase |
| thought (ful,less) | bicycle | surprise | increase | thank (ful/less) |
| eight | appear | separate (ly,ed,ing) | weight(less, ness) | one |
| ate | rest (ful/less) | achieve | wait | won |
Year 3 and 4 spellings
Year 3,4
Half-term 1
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative ways for writing the ‘ay’ sound
- alternative ways for writing the ‘ee’ sound
- ‘double up for a short vowel sound’
- ‘drop the e for ing’
- ‘drop the y for an i’
- adding the suffixes ed, ing
- homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently)
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below:
famous believe accident breathe answer
library passion notice were possess
century address favourite appear here
their weight complete ordinary wear
straight they’re surprise busy increase
session possible there hear where
suppose mission eighth extreme occasion
fraction different attention learn possession
Spellings 23.06.20203
decide increase
describe
exercise height
surprise beautiful
Spellings 9.6.23
Next week, we will be practising spellings with the tion suffix.
station
caption
emotion
nutrition
fraction
question
Spellings 19th May 2023
though
through
thought
straight
special
strange
strength
separate
remember
Spellings 05.05.2023
Next week, the children will be tested on synonyms for said. This will help us as we are going to be writing a narrative using direct speech:
shouted
called
replied
exclaimed
yelled
whispered
whimpered
cried
Spellings 28.04.23
We will be practicing the sion/tion/cian grapheme:
explosion
mission
direction
attention
fraction
magician
optician
Spellings 21.04.2023
This week, we are focusing on contractions:
can’t
don’t
won’t
haven’t
shouldn’t
mustn’t
wouldn’t
isn’t