Year 3/4 Spellings

Within our spelling lessons, we will be teaching the children a specific sound or rule each week; these rules will be tested in our Friday spelling tests. We would like the children to learn a minimum of five words from that rule but we will also ask the children 5 ‘new’ words where they can apply what they have learnt. Below are the words that we would like the children to learn each week.

Year 3 / Year 4 / Spelling Test
Week 1: 19.09.16 / i: y middle
The /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words
Words:
myth
gym
symbol
typical
system / Suffixes: Doubling consonants
If the last syllable of a word ends with one consonant letter, which has just one vowel letter before it, the final consonant letter is doubled before the suffix is added.
Words:
forgetting
beginning
preferred
travelling
cancelled / 23.09.16
Week 2: 26.09.16 / u: ou
The /ʌ/ (u) sound spelt ou
Words:
young
touch
double
young
enough / Prefixes: sub (meaning ‘under’) and inter (meaning ‘between’ or ‘among’)
Words:
submerge
subheading
subspecies
interrupt
interject
intervene / 30.09.16
Week 3: 03.10.16 / k: ch
Words with the /k/ sound spelt ch
Words:
chord
chemist
choir
chemical
technology / Prefixes: super (meaning ‘above’), anti (meaning ‘above’).
Words:
supervision
supersonic
supermarket
antisocial
antibiotic
anticlockwise / 07/10/16
Week 4: 10.10.16 / sh: ch
Words with the /ʃ/ (sh) sound spelt ch
Words:
chef
chalet
machine
brochure
moustache / Prefixes: auto (meaning ‘self’ or ‘own’) and in (can mean both ‘not’ and ‘in’/‘into’. In the words given here it means ‘not’).
Words:
autograph
autobiography
automatic
inaccurate
inaccessible
inconsiderate / 14.10.16
Week 5: 17.10.16 / g: gue
Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue
Words:
league
colleague
catalogue
plague
vague / Prefixes: il (before a root word starting with l, in– becomes il) and im (before a root word starting with m or p, in– becomes im–.)
Words:
illegal
illogical
illegible
imbalance
immature
immoral / 21.10.16
Week 6: 24.10.16 / No Spelling Test