This week’s spellings are a mixture of adjectives and adverbs using the suffixes less and ly.

Group 1: care, careless, carelessly, careful, carefully.

Group 2: care, careless, carelessly, careful, carefully, thoughtful, thoughtfully

Group 3: thoughtful, thoughtfully, thoughtless, thoughtlessly, painful, painfully, fearless, fearlessly

Can you put them into sentences?

Parents – this week, you could also read these sentences out loud and ask your child to write the whole sentence. You might need to read it out to your child a couple of times! Can they remember and write it?

The careless lady dropped her coat into the sea.

The boy was careful when he offered his sweets.

The girl was carefully unwrapping her gift.

This week’s words have a  /sh/ sound spelt with ‘ch’ (mostly French in origin).

Group 1: chef, machine,    chalet, brochure

Group 2: chef, machine, chalet, brochure, machine, parachute

Group 3: chef, machine, chalet, brochure, parachute, champagne, moustache (apologies group 3, I think you have machine twice on your sheet!)

Bitesize games

This week’s spellings have the prefixes sub- and tele-

The prefix sub- means under.

The prefix tele comes from the Greek word meaning ‘at a distance’.

Group 1: subway, submerge, telephone, television

Group 2: subway, submerge, submarine, telephone, television, telescope

Group 3: subway, submerge, submarine, substandard, telephone, television, telescope, telegraph

Challenge: Can you find any other words beginning with sub- and tele-?

The spellings this week have the suffix -ful or -ness added to the root words.

Group 1: playful, cheerful, fitness, illness

Group 2: playful, cheerful, forgetful, successful, fitness, illness, darkness

Group 3: careful, cheerful, successful, painful, thankful, fitness, illness, quietness, darkness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLrK4epzuiA

This week, we are adding the suffix -er

Group 1- angrier, earlier, dirtier, hairier

Group 2 – angrier, earlier, dirtier, hairier, drier

Group 3- angrier, earlier, dirtier, hairier, drier, quicker

This week we are learning about words which have a short ‘i’ spelt ‘y’.

Group 1 -gym, symbol, pyramid. Egypt

Group 2 -gym, symbol, pyramid. myth, mysterious, Egypt

Group 3 -gym, gymnastics, pyramid. myth, mythical, mysterious, Egypt, symbol

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-175.htm

The spellings this week are from the statutory word list.

Group 1: accident, accidentally, actual, actually

Group 2: accident, accidentally, actual, actually, address, answer

Group 3: accident, accidentally, actual, actually, address, answer, appear, arrive

Some strategies to help you this week.

No-Nonsense-Spelling-Strategies-for-parents

SpellingWordList_Y3-4

This week, we are learning about the prefixes mis and re.

Group 1: misread, misbehave, redo, return

Group 2: misread, misbehave, mislead, redo, return, reappear

Group 3: misread, misbehave, mislead, misheard, redo, return, reappear, rebuild

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqqsw6f/articles/zjjxjsg

This week we are learning about the suffixes -er and -est.

Group 1- nicer, nicest, taller, tallest

Group 2 – later, latest, quicker, quickest, brighter, brightest

Group 3 – later, latest, quicker, quickest, brighter, brightest, fresher, freshest

You can have a look at the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibq_bWQDluQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt

This one can be used as a refresher from Year 2.

https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/planning-and-resources/year-2/more-suffixes/violets-vowel-suffixes

Please note that we have one more week on x3 for all so there will be a test next Friday and most children will be moving onto the next one – x4. The children were so keen to do them today and it is obvious they have been learning these at home and out of order. Keep going!