Year 4 Spelling

06 July 2012

This week’s spellings are all synonyms for said.

We are learning about news reports at the moment and these spellings will be helpful when writing quotes.

29 June 2012

The suffix we are going to be learning this week is tion.

Some of the time, these suffixes can be added with simply replacing the final t in the route word with tion. For example. correct and correction. However, there are a few exceptions which we’ll go through in the week.

22 June 2012

This week’s spellings all end with the suffix fully.

Last week we looked at the suffix ‘ful’. We can make these words into adverbs by adding ly. Notice how there is now a double l on the end, e.g. wonder + ful + ly = wonderfully

15 June 2012

This week’s spellings all end with the suffix ful.

Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end, it loses one of its ls. For example, wonder and full becomes wonderful.

25 May 2012

This week’s spellings are a mixture of our three main spelling rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits any of the three rules.

18 May 2012

This week’s spellings are all tricky words which have been misspelled in our writing recently.

11 May 2011

This week, our spellings are all superlatives that follow the familiar spelling rule: ‘drop the y for an i’.  For example, funny becomes funniest.

04 May 2012

This week our spellings are all adverbs that follow the familiar spelling rule: double up for short vowel sounds.

27 April 2012

This week in our spellings we are learning how to drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.

By adding ‘ing’ to the end of the verb, we have to drop the ‘e’ from the route word. For example, implore with an ing added becomes imploring.

20 April 2012

This week’s spellings are emotive WOW words that could feature in a persuasive text. Your child will be tested on Friday 25 April.