Year 3 Spelling

10 September 2021

This week, we’ve been learning how the ‘ai’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word day, the letters ‘ay’ make the ‘ai’ sound but in the word wait it’s the letters ‘ai’.

To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.

eight             famous              favourite              straight            strange        weight            great           everyday

We’ll test ourselves on Friday 17 September to see how we’ve got on.

For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.

16 July 2021

This week, we’ll continue to recap some common homophones. Homophone are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings.

of                     off                                its                                 it’s

great                 grate                             break                            brake

To keep it fun, practise these spellings in different ways, check out the ‘super spelling strategies’ on this week’s spelling post (go to the Scholes website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4). Children should practise in preparation for a test on Friday 23 July 2021.

Fancy a challenge? Use these words in sentences. Or, create silly sentences using as many of them as you can – can you use them all?

09 July 2021

02 July 2021

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

25 June 2021

This week, we are learning to spell words beginning with the super and sub prefix.

Here are the words we would like you to learn at home. Could you write each word into a sentence?

• subheading
• submarine
• subordinate
• subtitles
• subscribe
• submerge
• supervise
• supermarket
• superpower
• superhuman
• superstar

10 May 2021

Next week, we’ll be recapping our learning about adding suffixes. Complete these activities.

29 April 2021

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.

23 April 2021

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

26 March 2021

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

19 March 2021

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.