Year 3
Spelling
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I can use y to spell the / ɪ / sound in the middle of words.
I can use ou to spell the short /u/ sound.
I know and can use the spelling rules for adding –ly to the end of adjectives to make adverbs.
I can spell some words ending –sure and –ture.
I can spell some words with a soft ch, as in chef.
I can use sc to spell the /s/ sound correctly in some words.
I know the spellings ei, eigh and ey and can choose the correct one to use in a range of words.
I can use apostrophes for possession with plural words.
I can spell a growing range of homophones and near homophones.
I can spell all of the year three tricky words.
Address, answer, appear, arrive, bicycle, build, caught, centre, century, circle, early, earth, eight, famous, forward, fruit,
group, guard, guide, heard, heart, history, learn, minute, often, busy, February, height, length, island, natural, notice,
popular, position, possible, potatoes, promise, question, regular, reign, remember, sentence, special, straight, strange,
surprise, woman, women.