Spelling

24 January 2020

17 January 2020

Suffixes: ant/ance, ent/ence

Complete the words with the correct suffix.

• violence
• toler__
• confid__
• conveni__
• attend__
• assit__
• hesit__
• innoc__
• resid__
• depend__
  Write a sentence using as many words from above as you can.

17 January 2020

This week in spellings we have been recapping the alternative phonemes for oa and oo. (We studied these last term.) This week, practise each word by using pyramid write.

Think about each spelling as you write it.

oa sound                      oo sound                      Tricky words

although                       drew                             could

notice                           choose                         should

throw                            peculiar                         people

potatoes                       approve                        even

10 January 2020

This week in spellings, we have been recapping the long vowel sound for ai, ee and i. (We studied these sounds last term.)

For this week’s homework, practise each word by using rainbow write.

Write out the word correctly. Write over it in a different colour. Then repeat with two other colours. Think about the spelling as you write it.

ai sound                     ee sound                   ie sound

favourite                     believe                       exercise

straight                       breathe                      bicycle

weight                        complete                    decide

06 December 2019

Focus : the short vowel sound a e i o u

This week we have been looking at the short vowel sounds. We have been paying particular attention to the double consonants that follow them. The following list of words it to be learnt for a test next week.

Make sure you write them more than once. You could do rainbow words, sentences, speedwriting or pyramid words to help you learn them.

accident
address
appear
arrive
different
difficult
grammar
occasion
opposite
possess
possible

29 November 2019

ible and able word endings

What’s the rule?

When we cannot identify a root word, we most commonly add ible, eg legible. When you can identify the root word this means that you are able to, therefore we add able. Eg forgivable means you are able to forgive.

Sort these word beginnings to the correct ible or able ending. Add more examples if you can think of any.

leg___

value______

invinc______

terr______

ador_____

dispos______

ed___

horr_____

break______

enjoy_____

respect_____

agree_______

29 November 2019

Focus : homophones

This week, we have been consolidating our learning on homophones (same sound different spelling). Your task this week is to write a list of ten sentences which contain some of the following homophones.

which, witch, here, hear, their, there, they’re, were, where, wear

However, you must have a mixture of correct and incorrect uses of them. We will then figure out which are correct and which are incorrect as a class.

22 November 2019

Friday 22 November

Focus : homophones

This week, we have been learning about homophones (same sound different spelling). We have been focusing on the ones that we must know in year 3 and 4. Below is a passage containing lots of mistakes using the wrong homophones. You task is to rewrite it using the correct homophone spellings.

Witch of you can here the which cackling over their. There rude creatures. If she comes hear, there will be trouble. They wouldn’t like it if we went to there cave and they could hear us cackling whilst their trying to work.

08 November 2019

Re-write these words so they become plural (more than one).

What do you need to add: s, es, ves or ies?