Spelling

Children all learn differently and there is no ONE perfect method for learning spellings! Some like the Look Say Cover Write Check method and you could use the template below if you wanted to give this a try at home.

For checking on Monday 4th December:

For our final spelling test of 2023, we will be looking at adverbs that are exceptions to the rules. (We have fewer spellings than usual as the coming weeks will be incredibly  busy and Y3 have songs and dances to practise!)
 

• truly
• fully
• daily
• publicly
• shyly

For checking on Monday 27th November:

For the remainder of the term, we will be creating adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, the root word is more than one syllable and ends with -y. To make the adverb, the -y is replaced with an -i before the suffix -ly is added.

• happily
• angrily
• lazily
• easily
• busily
• greedily
• messily
• wearily
• cheekily
• clumsily

For checking on Monday 13th November:

For the next two weeks, we will be learning homophones and near homophones.

• berry
• bury
• break
• brake
• meet
• meat
• ball
• bawl
• fair
• fare

For checking on Monday 6th November:

For the next two weeks, we will be learning homophones and near homophones.

• here
• hear
• heel
• heal
• main
• mane
• mail
• male
• knot
• not

For checking after half term on Monday 30th October:

We are learning words with the /ur/ sound spelt with 'ear'.

• earth
• early
• earn
• earl
• learn
• search
• heard
• pearl
• unearth
• rehearse

For checking on Monday 16th October:

We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ai'.

• contain
• brain
• claim
• faint
• waist
• praise
• complaint
• afraid

BONUS SPELLINGS! (Remember the CAPITAL LETTERS)

- Caitlin

- Daisy

For checking on Monday 9th October:

We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ey'.

• hey
• they
• obey
• grey
• prey
• whey
• survey
• disobey

For checking on Monday 2nd October:

We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ei' or 'eigh'.

• eight
• eighty
• weight
• neighbour
• sleigh
• vein
• veil
• beige

For checking on Monday 8th January:

We are continuing to create adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, the root word ends with -le. To make the adverb, the -le is replaced with the suffix -ly.

• gently
• simply
• humbly
• nobly
• horribly
• terribly
• possibly
• incredibly
• comfortably
• probably