Year 4 Spellings
Autumn 1 PURPLE
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 linked to our learning and you will use these in your everyday work.
Year 4
Year 3 Revision –
frequently used
words/Days of the
week
w/c: 12/9/16
(to be tested 21/9)
Autumn 1
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)
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)
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)
Sunday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
court
caught
allowed
aloud
stationary
stationery
their
they’re
spectacle
whistle
drizzle
principle
courage
captivate
circulate
hibernate
ReadWriteInc words
Rainforest words
Science words
Science words
Other curriculum words
incessantly
exasperated
trepidation
despondent
curiosity
misleading
habitat
deforestation
indigenous
biodiversity
environment
camouflage
prediction
investigation
conclusion
crustacean
vertebrate
invertebrate
predator
consumer
producer
carnivore
herbivore
omnivore
Christianity
notation
responsibility
tolerance
sequence
algorithm
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