Year 3 Spelling

06 September 2013

The spellings this week are all words where you have to drop the ‘e’ at the end of
the word when adding ‘ing’. The children will be tested on the ‘ing’ words in the third column. However, it’s important that they also know the root words (second column) so they understand how the rule works.

05 July 2013

This week the words all end in y. However, when you turn them into a plural, you have to drop the y and add ies.

You do this for any word which has a consonant before the y.

For example, fly becomes flies.

If the word has a vowel before the y, you only add s.

For example, boy becomes boys.

28 April 2013

For the last few weeks of spellings, we will revisit three familiar spelling rules. This week’s spellings combine two of these rules:

double-up for short vowel sounds

and

drop the e for ing

All of the spellings double-up because of short vowel sounds. As for the second rule (drop the e for ing), because the route word of these spellings all have le on the end, when an ing is added the e is dropped.

For example,

wriggle with an ing added becomes wriggling and the e is dropped.

21 June 2013

This week’s spellings are all words which have been used quite often in the children’s writing this week and spelled incorrectly. Unfortunately, many of the words are ‘double up for short vowel sound’ words which, despite the continued practice, are still being spelled incorrectly.

14 June 2013

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful. The suffix ful means ‘full of’. Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end it loses one of its ls. For example, wish and full becomes wishful.

07 June 2013

This week’s spellings are a revisit of words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are still struggling to read these words and / or write them correctly.

It’s the half-term break…

…so there’s no homework or spellings this week.  Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.

17 May 2013

The spellings this week all contain the ending sion. You’ll notice that this ending makes the same ‘shun’ sound as last week’s spellings.

Can you also spot the words which have a double up for a short vowel sound?

10 May 2013

The spellings this week all contain the ending tion, making a ‘shun’ sound.

There are other endings which sound similar but are spelt differently. Can you think of any?

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 17 May.

03 May 2013

We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week. The spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i. The first six words all drop the y for an i when they are changed into plurals. The final four words drop the y for an i when changing the word into an adverb.