More homophones this week! It is really important that when talking about the words, the children explain their meaning. You could ask them to verbally put the word into a sentence themselves to see if they know the difference.

Group 1: tale, tail, prey, pray

Group 2: tale, tail, prey, pray, aloud, allowed, board, bored

Group 3: tale, tail, prey, pray, aloud, allowed, board, bored, past, passed

Homophones

This week, we are looking at homophones.

What are homophones? Homophones are words which are spelt and pronounced the same but have different meanings. It is really important that the children learn the meaning and spell the right word when you give the definition or put the word into a sentence.

Group 1: maid, made, great, grate

Group 2:  maid, made, great, grate,  plain, plane, break, brake

Group 3: maid, made, great, grate,  plain, plane, break, brake, sail, sale

Homophones game

This week’s words have the long A sound /ay/ spelled ei

Group 1 – vein, weigh, weight, eight

Group 2- reins, reigns, vein, weigh, weight, eight, sleigh

Group 3- reins, reigns, vein, veil, weigh, weight, eight, eighty, sleigh

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-35.htm

This week’s spellings are apostrophes for contraction. A contracted word (or contraction) is a short word created by putting two words together and dropping one or more of the letters.

Group 1: I’m, he’s, we’re, they’re

Group 2: I’m, he’s, we’re, doesn’t, can’t, they’re

Group 3: doesn’t, can’t, couldn’t, won’t, don’t, isn’t, we’ve, I’m, it’s, they’re

If you are learning them with your child, please ensure they use a capital I for I’m.

Here are some extra activities if you wish to do them with your child.

bbc – contractions

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The spellings this week are adding the suffix ‘ing’ to verbs. Each group has more words than they usually have but we think they will know how to spell most of them.

If you wish to do extra learning at home, here are links to some activities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7OhZrP_fF4

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/ing

Year 3 – hoping, coming, liking, running, skipping, putting, clapping, reading, sleeping.

Year 4 – hoping, smiling, liking, coming, running, skipping, clapping, putting, forgetting, beginning, standing, jumping.

This week’s words are from the statutory word list. Many of our children are learning the words for the tests which is great but not remembering them in their writing. We are talking about different ways to remember some of these tricky words. This involves making up phrases to help. These can help some children.

Group 1: enough, peculiar, pressure, recent, suppose

Groups 2 and 3: enough, peculiar, pressure, recent, suppose, particular, important

This week’s words have the prefixes re- (meaning again or back) and sub- (meaning under).

Group 1: redo, recover, rebuild, subway, submarine

Group 2: redo, recover, rebuild, reappear, subway, submarine, submerge

Group 3: redo, recover, rebuild, reappear, subway, submarine, submerge, subordinate

Here are some extras for this week –

accident, bicycle, certain, different

Here are some games on prefixes from the BBC site.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8mxrwx/articles/z9hjwxs

This week we are looking at the prefix  dis  (meaning not)

Group 1 – discover, dislike, dishonest, disinfect, disown

Group 2 – discover, dislike, dishonest, disinfect, disown, dishearten, disappear

Group 1 – discover, dislike, dishonest, disinfect, disown, dishearten, disappear, discount

This video clip recaps the use of prefixes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-wonderful-words-prefixes/zknd7nb

This weeks’ words start with the prefix Un

Group 1: undo, unfinished, unattached, unlocked, unnatural

Group 2: undo, unfinished, unattached, unlocked, unnatural, unload, unacceptable

Group 3: undo, unfinished, unattached, unlocked, unnatural, unload, unacceptable,

unable

Here is a short clip to explain how the prefix is used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfEUgf2Enpk