Year 4 Spellings
Autumn 1 ORANGE
Highlight any you are still finding tricky - keep this copy at home for regular practise.
Practise your spellings regularly but remember it is the rule that is the most important area to learn.
Write them in a sentence so that you can show that you understand how to spell the words, what they mean and the rule that they show.
Can you find any words that follow the same rule? Write them down and bring them in to share.
We will include two words with the same rule but not on the list in the test to check you really know the rule.
Get your parents to test you and remember to play some of the games you have used in class and online .Teach your family how to play.
The words in the second section are a different rule which we want you to make sure you are confident in using.
Year 4
Year 3 Revision –
frequently used
words/Days of the
week
w/c: 12/9/16
(to be tested 21/9)
people
Tuesday
Saturday
Wednesday
–tch words
kitchen
catching
catches
switch
switched
thatch
Rule: Homophones &
near homophones – words
that sound the same but
are spelt differently
with different meanings.
w/c: 19/9/16
(to be tested 28/9)
Rule: Homophones & near
homophones – words that
sound the same but are
spelt differently with
different meanings.
w/c: 26/9/16
(to be tested 5/10)
knew
new
some
sum
-er/-est suffixes
quicker
quickest
grandest
fastest
Fresher
Freshest
of
off
ate
eight
ph/wh words
elephant
dolphin
alphabet
which
where
while
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Rule Consonant ‘le’ syllables
found at the end of words
include:
‘ble’, ‘cle’, ‘fle’, ‘gle’, ‘kle’, ‘ple’.
‘stle’, ‘tle’, ‘zle’.
w/c: 3/10/16
(to be tested 12/10)
kettle
jungle
bubble
castle
oe words/ie words
goes
toe
cried
tried
field
chief
Rule Using the silent ‘e’. Handy
hint: silent ‘e’ makes the vowel say
its name, but keeps quiet and does
not make a sound.
w/c: 10/10/16
(to be tested 19/10)
cape
rat
rate
gape
au words
August
astronaut
author
dinosaur
because
launch
Games to play:
Hangman
Kim’s game ( write out each of the words and then take one away – you then have to spell the missing word) odd one out , write 3 versions of the word you are spelling
and try to identify the correctly spelled version.
Scrabble is a great game for practicing spellings and encouraging more ambitious vocabulary
How many words can you make – eg from condensation (sat, sad, not etc)
Countdown type games with a random choice of letters, make the longest word you can
http://www.spellingcity.com/
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/play.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en01soun-game-syllables-factory
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html#7
Reading regularly and playing word finding games with dictionaries will also extend your knowledge of words and letter patterns. Other ideas for spellings practice and
many other games can be found on the OMS website in the ‘Parents’ section, under the ‘learning resources and support’ page.☺
Word List Year 4
accidentally
calendar
exercise
favourite
guard
interest
material
naughty
ordinary
possess
probably
remember
therefore
through
actually
century
experience
forward
guide
knowledge
medicine
occasion
particular
possession
quarter
sentence
though
various
breathe
eight
experiment
forwards
height
length
mention
occasionally
peculiar
potatoes
recent
separate
although
weight
business
eighth
extreme
grammar
history
library
minute
opposite
position
pressure
reign
strength
thought