Mrs Mason and Mrs Colthart To spell words using common rules Plurals—change y to i and add es butterfly—butterflies fairy—fairies When adding ing double the consonant chat—chatting bat—batting wrap—wrapping Commonly misspelt words: mistake heard bicycle breakable today library special Learn them carefully! Mrs Davies and Mr Fern Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ sound spelt –que (French in origin) league tongue catalogue dialogue rogue antique unique boutique picturesque mosque Commonly misspelt words: mistake heard bicycle breakable library special Mrs Roberts Common errors flies boxes knot lamb heard library brought bicycle special breakable Learn them carefully! Mrs Emery
Practise all your spelling rules up to page 20 in your little red log book. We will have a quiz next week.
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Over the next few weeks we are learning about fables in English. Look at this website: http://www.taleswithmorals.com/ Read 2-3 fables and answer the following. You can write or type your answers. Which fable did you enjoy the most and why? Who were the characters? What were they like? Describe them! What is the moral of the fable and what does this mean? Show your work to your teacher when you have finished
8.5.17 Mrs Davies and Mr Fern The ending sounding like zz is always spelt –sure. The ending sounding like t/ch is often spelt –ture, but check that the word is not a root word ending in (t)ch with an er ending – e.g. teacher, catcher, richer, stretcher. treasure pleasure enclosure posture miniature creature literature temperature stretcher teacher. Investigating -le endings 8.5.17 Mrs Roberts little rumble cradle bottle apple table middle candle gentle whistle Oddbod: every Mrs Colthart A suffix is a letter of group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning. Learn to spell the words that are underlined. mysterious - mysteriously wonderful - wonderfully success - successful thought - thoughtless When the root word ends with –y, it changes to –ily, –iful or –less. angry - angrily funny - funnily beauty - beautiful penny - penniless When you add –ly to a word ending in –le, the suffix replaces –le. humble - humbly crumble - crumbly Mrs Emery Year 3 spelling: The ‘u’ sound spelt o and the ‘or’ sound spelt ar after w. Mother, brother, other, nothing, Monday, towards, swarm, reward, warm. Challenge: find a word in the English language that has no vowels (a,e,i,o,u) or a y! Mrs Mason
Sight words knot enough different Endings worry -worried bumpy -bumpier break—breakable fly—flies Double consonant rabbit Contracted words she’d |
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