Spellings
At Temple Grafton, the children will be following a rigorous programme teaching the key spelling patterns and concepts and the statutory word lists detailed in the National Curriculum.
Each half term we will be sharing with you the spelling patterns and the statutory word lists that your children will be learning.
Class 3
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Spelling Focus |
Example words |
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Revise suffixes: -s, -es, plurals |
house/ houses school /schools bus / buses lunch / lunches baby / babies city / cities |
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Revise suffixes: -ed past tense verbs |
play / played look / looked invent / invented carry / carried fry / fried hurry / hurried drop / dropped bat / batted hug / hugged |
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Revise suffixes from: -er. |
quick /quicker long / longer cold /colder big / bigger hot / hotter thin / thinner happy / happier funny / funnier lucky / luckier |
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Words with the ay sound spelt differently |
ey – they obey ei – vein reign eigh - eight, weight neighbour aigh – straight |
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Words with the sound i but different spelling. |
myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery women busy build pretty
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Words with the sound u but different spelling. |
young, touch, double, trouble, country should would could son, Monday, month, wonder good blood stood flood foot |
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Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que (French in origin) |
league, tongue, rogue, catalogue, plague
boutique, mosque, cheque antique, unique |
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Homophones and near homophones : words that have the same sound but different spellings |
accept/except, affect/effect, ball/bawl, berry/bury, brake/break, fair/fare, grate/great, groan/grown, here/hear, heel/heal/he’ll, knot/not, mail/male, main/mane, meat/meet, medal/meddle, missed/mist, peace/piece, plain/plane, rain/rein/reign, scene/seen, weather/whether, whose/who’s |
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Prefixes: un-. pre-, dis-, mis-, re-. |
undo unhappy unfair preorder, pretend, prehistoric, previous, disappoint, disagree, disobey misbehave, mislead, misspell redo, refresh, return, reappear, redecorate |
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Revise apostrophe for contractions |
can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, I’ll, wasn’t , they’re, we’ll,
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Our focus words from the statutory Y3/4 word list Half term 1 |
actual learn build
group heard often arrive circle |
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Our focus words from the statutory Y3/4 word list Half term 2 |
woman women perhaps pressure promise therefore opposite ordinary |