Year 3 Spelling

19 October 2012

We are breaking from the norm this week by only having six spellings. This is because the spellings are a bit trickier than usual.

The spellings are all ‘adding connectives’ which we’ll be using in our writing next week. Most of the spellings have a capital letter and a comma because we will be using them as sentence openers.

(‘Another point is…’ flows better without a comma.)

12 October 2012

We are learning about ed endings this week. This week’s list is made up of words where you have to add ed to the end of the word when changing it to the past tense. Children often hear this ending as a t sound and not ed.

05 October 2012

We are focussing on plurals this week.

Some of the spellings are made into a plural by just adding s. The others you have to add es to make into a plural. You add es if you hear an extra syllable when you make it plural.

Children should learn all ten spellings but will be tested on eight out of the ten on Friday 12 October.

28 September 2012

This week, the spellings are words where you have to drop the y for an i when adding ly.

Children should learn all ten spellings and will be tested on eight out of the ten.

21 September 2012

This week, the spellings are a mixture of the previous two weeks’ ing rules and some words where you just have to add ing to the root word.

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 28 September.

14 September 2012

This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.

This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter. This means that you need to double the final letter when adding ‘ing’.

The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 21 September.

07 September 2012

The spellings this week are all words where you have to drop the ‘e’ at the end of the word when adding ‘ing’.

The chant we use to remember the rule is drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.

The children have ten spellings to learn but will only be tested on eight out of the ten words.

06 July 2012

We’ll be writing instructions in our literacy lessons next week so the spellings are all adverbs which could be used to describe how to do something.

Top tip for writing: You can move the adverb to the start of the sentence with a comma after it to make it an adverb opener. For example:

Stir the porridge gently.

Could become…

Gently, stir the porridge.

29 June 2012

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful which 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.

22 June 2012

This week, we’re returning to words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. The spellings will be tested on Friday 29 June.  Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.