Year 3/4 Spellings 2018/19 Parents, Please find below 32 spelling sets for this academic year. Each set of words is designed for the children to practise a particular spelling rule or pattern which they will have looked at in school that week. Try to emphasise these rules and patterns at home rather than simply learning the words for a test. Some sets of spellings are intended as revision, for example homophones or adding ed endings. Whilst they may appear to be simple spellings, they are common spelling errors that children make in their writing and they need to practise applying the rules and using these words in context. Please note, spellings will come home on a Monday and will be tested the following Friday. Thank you for your continued support with spelling at home! Miss Davison
Set 1 homophones/ near homophones to/ two/ too of/ off their/ there/ they re wear/ where/ were/ we re are/ our here/ hear Set 2 homophones/ near homophones blue/ blew meet/ meat main/mane knight/ night knot/ not great/ grate fair/ fare your/ you re Set 3 homophones/ near homophones heel/ heal/ he ll mail/ male scene/ seen berry/ bury weather/ whether break/ brake groan/ grown
Set 4 homophones/ near homophones missed/ mist plain/ plane peace/ piece rain/ rein/ reign meddle/ medal accept/ except affect/ effect Set 5 plurals of words ending in y fly - flies try - tries reply - replies copy - copies baby - babies carry - carries cry - cries hurry - hurries dry - dries story - stories Set 6 rules for adding ed walk - walked groan - groaned phone - phoned change - changed worry - worried copy - copied carry - carried shop - shopped drop - dropped bat - batted
Set 7 rules for adding ing fall - falling walk - walking talk - talking change - changing hope - hoping drive - driving wave - waving shop - shopping hop - hopping drip - dripping Set 8 rules for adding er and est long - longer nice - nicer happy - happier funny - funnier big - bigger hard - hardest late - latest close - closest crazy - craziest hot - hottest Set 9 apostrophes for contractions revision don t won t didn t wouldn t couldn t shouldn t can t isn t haven t hasn t
Set 10 apostrophes for possession No spelling words or test this week. Please practise using the possessive apostrophe, including names ending in s e.g. Harry s coat Jess bag Sally s dog The rabbit s carrot James hat Set 11 apostrophes for possession (plurals) No spelling words or test this week. Please practise using the possessive apostrophe for plural words e.g. the girls hockey team the teachers car park a dads rugby club the children s party the women s toilets Set 12 uh sound spelt ou touch young tough rough double trouble couple country cousin
Set 13 i sound spelt y gym myth pyramid mystery Egypt bicycle symbol crystal mystery system Set 14 ay sound spellings prey grey obey reins weight vein straight weigh eight they Set 15 un dis and mis prefixes unhappy unwell unkind disorganised disagree disarm disobey misunderstand misspell misbehave
Set 16 ful and less suffixes playful hopeful colourful harmful careful hopeless harmless colourless painless careless Set 17 ness and ment suffixes fairness happiness kindness sadness silliness foolishness enjoyment employment statement movement Set 18 sure endings measure treasure pleasure leisure closure enclosure unsure ensure
Set 19 ture endings capture creature vulture mixture texture picture adventure feature fracture sculpture Set 20 sion endings erosion invasion revision explosion vision conclusion persuasion decision confusion division Set 21 tion endings station fiction motion section nation mention action position solution potion
Set 22 cian endings musician electrician magician politician mathematician beautician technician optician Set 23 adding ly to words ending in y heavy - heavily lucky - luckily ready - readily moody - moodily busy - busily easy - easily wary - warily tidy - tidily noisy - noisily lazy - lazily Set 24 ally endings gentle - gently simple - simply noble - nobly feeble - feebly music - musically historic - historically dramatic - dramatically frantic - frantically automatic - automatically drastic - drastically
Set 25 ous endings poisonous dangerous mountainous famous various hideous enormous jealous obvious serious Set 26 que and gue endings league tongue antique unique mosque vague cheque rogue fatigue Set 27 sh sound spelt ch brochure champagne chef fuchsia machine parachute chalet chauffeur moustache chandelier
Set 28 k sound spelt ch ache anchor chemical mechanic orchestra school stomach technology orchid chameleon Set 29 s sound spelt sc science scene discipline fascinate crescent descent scenery descend scissors Set 30 in and im prefixes incomplete inactive incorrect informal impatient impossible invisible inaccurate imperfect immoral
Set 31 il and ir prefixes irregular illegal irresponsible illogical irresistible irreparable irreplaceable irresolvable irreversible Set 32 prefixes submarine submerge interact international supermarket superman antiseptic antisocial autobiography autograph