Year 3 Spelling

25 September 2020

This week, please learn the following spellings ready to be tested on Friday 02 October. There are many ways to practise these, for example:

• Rainbow write (write them in many different colours)
• Speed write (how many times can you write a word in a minute)
• Pyramid write (write one letter, then two, then three etc till you’ve written the whole word)
• Look, cover, write

18 September 2020

Spelling Challenge:

This week’s spellings are below. This week, practise them ready for a test on Friday 25 September.

class

grass

pass

great

break

many

money

11 September 2020

Spelling Challenge:

This week’s spellings are below. This week, practise them ready for a test on Friday 18 September.

could            should          would           (ould – oh you lucky duck)

old                cold              gold,

who              whole

were             where

Friday 06 March

This week we have been focusing on the suffixes –ful and –less

Take the root word and rewrite it by adding one of the suffixes –ful and –less to make a adjective.

Can you find any more words with –ful and –less as suffixes?

Friday 28 February

This week we have been focusing on apostrophes of ownership. Eg: The children’s shoes were wet.

We have also practised some of the Y3/4 spelling list.

For homework this week, you need to learn these spellings from the Y3/4 spelling list.

Use the Look, cover, say, write, check method to learn these words.

07 February 2020

This week we have been looking at prefixes auto- and tele-. These prefixes change the meaning of the root word.

auto – means self

tele – means distant

To learn these spellings, which method are you going to use?

• Pyramid write
• Rainbow write
• Look, cover, say, write, check.

Can you find any more words with auto or tele as a prefix?

Spelling list

24 January 2020

This week we have been learning to use apostrophes for contractions. Don’t forget to put the apostrophe in the correct place! You wouldn’t want to get it wrong. Let’s be smart about it!

I’ll don’t you’re couldn’t

haven’t wouldn’t shouldn’t hasn’t

they’re aren’t let’s

hadn’t she’s he’s

Can you use each of these words in a sentence? Can you think of any more examples?

17 January 2020

This week in spellings we have been recapping the alternative phonemes for oa and oo. (We studied these last term.) This week, practise each word by using pyramid write.

Think about each spelling as you write it.

oa sound                      oo sound                      Tricky words

although                       drew                             could

notice                           choose                         should

throw                            peculiar                         people

potatoes                       approve                        even

10 January 2020

This week in spellings, we have been recapping the long vowel sound for ai, ee and i. (We studied these sounds last term.)

For this week’s homework, practise each word by using rainbow write.

Write out the word correctly. Write over it in a different colour. Then repeat with two other colours. Think about the spelling as you write it.

ai sound                     ee sound                   ie sound

favourite                     believe                       exercise

straight                       breathe                      bicycle

weight                        complete                    decide

06 December 2019

Focus : the short vowel sound a e i o u

This week we have been looking at the short vowel sounds. We have been paying particular attention to the double consonants that follow them. The following list of words it to be learnt for a test next week.

Make sure you write them more than once. You could do rainbow words, sentences, speedwriting or pyramid words to help you learn them.

accident
address
appear
arrive
different
difficult
grammar
occasion
opposite
possess
possible