Year 3 Spelling

23 February 2018

At the midpoint in the year, this week’s spelling activity is to revise all the spelling rules and lists that we have learnt so far.

• Can you show your words in a creative way?
• Can you write them in your own sentences?
• Can you write your words in a paragraph or short story?
• Can you create a poster to show the spelling rules we’ve covered so far?

Children should revise the rules in preparation for a test on Friday 02 March. (We’ll discuss our revision on Thursday 01 March to formulate a list for the following day.)

26 January 2018

This week’s spelling list is formed with words that have the suffix -ful. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! Think about the root word and how the suffix changes the meaning.

• Can you show your words in a creative way?
• Can you write them in your own sentences?
• Can you order them alphabetically?

19 January 2018

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation. You need to find words that contain the ‘sh’ sound that’s spelt ‘ch‘. For example: in chef and machine.

• How many different words can you find?
• Can you spot any patterns?
• Can you show your words in a creative way?
• Can you write your words in your own sentences?

You need to learn these patterns in preparation for a test on Friday 26 January.

12 January 2018

05 January 2018

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation. You need to find words that contain the ‘g’ sound that’s spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt with ‘que’. For example: in catalogue and antique.

• How many different words can you find?
• Can you spot any patterns?
• Can you show your words in a creative way?
• Can you write your words in your own sentences?

You need to learn these patterns in preparation for a test on Thursday 11 January.

01 December 2017

This week’s spelling list is words that contain a long ‘a’ sound. We used our investigation from last week to inform our list. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out!

• Can you show your words in a creative way?
• Can you write them in your own sentences?

Children should learn these spellings in preparation for a test on Monday 11 December.

24 November 2017

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation about words with a long ‘a’ sound. For example: ei in vein or aigh in straight.

• How many different ways can you find?
• Can you spot any patterns?
• Can you show your words in a creative way?

We’ll discuss our investigation on Thursday 30 November.

17 November 2017

This week’s spelling list is all about homophones: words that sound the same but have different spellings. We voted for the ones that we find most difficult, using our investigation from last week.

• Can you show the meaning of each word in a creative way?
• Can you write a sentence that contains both?

There will be a spelling test on Friday 24 November.

10 November 2017

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation about homophones. You need to find words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. For example: to break / to brake.

• Can you use your words in your own sentences?
• Can you find their definitions?
• Can you show your words in a creative way?

We’ll discuss our investigation on Thursday 16 November.

03 November 2017

This week’s spellings are from the Year 3 High Frequency Word list. In class, we had a vote to decide which words we found the most difficult to spell. This has formed our spelling list for this week and should help children spelling these words consistently correctly in future!

There will be a spelling test on Friday 10 November.