Year 4 Spellings Spring 2 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.

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 second set of words is a different rule which will be useful to your wider learning.

The last two words come from the list of words that you need to learn in Years 3 and 4 which is in your planner on page 114.

Year 4 Spring 2
Rule:–sion is used if the root word ends in d or se.
w/c: 19/02/18
(to be tested 28/02/18) / Rule: Exceptions: attend – attention, intend – intention.
–cian is used if the root word ends in c or cs.
w/c: 26/02/18
to be tested 07/03/18) / Rule: Words with the /k/
sound spelt ch (Greek in origin)
w/c: 05/03/18
(to be tested 14/03/18) / Rule: Words with the /ʃ/
sound spelt ch (mostly French in
origin)
w/c: 12/03/18
(to be tested 21/03/18)
extend / attention / choreography / champagne
extension / intention / orchestra / chandelier
revise / musician / characterful / machine
revision / mathematician / architectural / brochure
Rule: RWI words / Rule: Science Sound words / Rule: RWI words / Theme words
endure / vibration / trudged / Ironbridge
sanitation / pitch / despondently / invention
seething / volume / stealthily / construction
feat / frequency / refuge / gorge
Year 4 List / Year 4 List / Year 4 List / Year 4 List
interest / length / material / mention
knowledge / library / medicine / minute

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

Reading regularly and playing word finding games with dictionaries will also extend your knowledge of words and letter patterns. Other ideas for spellings practice, many other games and a comprehensive list of all Year 4 spellings can be found on the OMS website in the ‘Parents’ section, under the ‘learning resources and support’ page.

Word List Year 4

accidentally / actually / breathe / business
calendar / century / eight / eighth
exercise / experience / experiment / extreme
favourite / forward / forwards / grammar
guard / guide / height / history
interest / knowledge / length / library
material / medicine / mention / minute
naughty / occasion / occasionally / opposite
ordinary / particular / peculiar / position
possess / possession / potatoes / pressure
probably / quarter / recent / reign
remember / sentence / separate / strength
therefore / though / although / thought
through / various / weight