using the possessive apostrophe with regular and irregular plurals, for example, the children’s lunch, the girls’ shoes spelling more words with suffixes and other endings, including words ending -ation, -ly, -sure, -ture, -sion, -ion, -ous, -tion, This brilliant spelling words list provides 200 common words for use in multiple lessons and situations! Keep words on display: Make a bright, engaging and informative display in the classroom. Words that are in a child’s environment will be received as passive input, which over time will transfer to active knowledge. Children should also develop their knowledge of common exception words in year 3 and 4 - words that don't follow regular spelling rules. Use this Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words Word Mat to support children learning them. The words are presented alphabetically in a clear and easy-to-understand way.

Throughout year 3 and 4, there are various requirements that teachers will guide their lessons by and what pupils should achieve. Some of these statutory requirements include: Some of the words in this statutory spellings word mat are “accident,” “disappear,” “forwards,” “occasionally,” and “therefore.” There are over a hundred words on the sheet.If you'd like more resources about Year 3-4 spellings, you can try these display posters. Other Word Search Printable Sheets

If you’re after more spelling test words to use with your Year 3 and 4 students, we recommend this Year 3 and 4 Common Exceptions Words Mat to help your children get to grips with the spellings of common exception words.This resource is available in a variety of versions, so no matter what you choose to use it for, we've got the right style, size and format for you. Test - These spelling test words for Year 3 and 4 students feature the common exception words for students in lower Key Stage Two. You can use this resource both in the classroom and at home. If your child is struggling with a spelling list they have been asked to learn, here are a few ideas to help: This handy high frequency words sheet features 100 different high frequency words, it's perfect for your English lessons.

Use prepositions to talk about time, place and cause, for example, ‘We met at 2pm’ (time), ‘The school was next to the shops’ (place) or ‘We ran home because of the rain’ (cause) Use over-pronunciation. So for Wednesday, encourage children to say Wed-nes-day as they write. There are lots of words which feature sounds that aren’t always pronounced clearly (such as words ending in -ed), and over-emphasising these while spelling them out can help fix the spelling in your child’s memory. Use the present perfect form of verbs, for example, ‘Bella has lost her keys’ or ‘I have lived in London for fifteen years’ to talk about events that started in the past and are still happening Having mastered the Year 1 and 2 spelling lists, 7-year-olds entering Year 3 will find they have a whole new mountain to climb! There's nothing to worry about, though - you can support them every step of the way. You can find the full list of Year 3 spelling words in this Statutory Spelling Years 3 and 4 Word Mat but, for now, here are a few examples: If you’d like to have a go at creating your own resources, Twinkl-style, head over Twinkl Create and make something special to aid your children’s learning!

For more general support and guidance on year 3 spelling words in the national curriculum, try these LKS2 Spelling Rules Display Posters. Bright and colourful to engage children and liven up your classroom, the posters feature a variety of spelling rules, patterns, prefixes, vocabulary and more that'll be helpful to your year 3 and 4 learners. Fantastic word search printable sheets to challenge your children on their knowledge of the words they should recognise in Year 3 and Year 4. 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