Spelling
This list is from the National Curriculum and the expectation is that all children will be able to read, understand and spell these words, using them correctly in their written work. Some of these words are decodable and others will be 'tricky' words which cannot be sounded out and just need to be learnt.
Year 3 & 4 Statutory word list:
accident | century | experiment | interest | particular | remember |
accidentally | certain | extreme | island | peculiar | sentence |
actual | circle | famous | knowledge | perhaps | separate |
actually | complete | favourite | learn | popular | special |
address | consider | February | length | position | straight |
answer | continue | forward(s) | library | possess | strange |
appear | decide | fruit | material | possession | strength |
arrive | describe | grammar | medicine | possible | suppose |
believe | different | group | mention | potatoes | surprise |
bicycle | difficult | guard | minute | pressure | therefore |
breath | disappear | guide | natural | probably | though |
breathe | early | heard | naughty | promise | although |
build | earth | heart | notice | purpose | thought |
busy | eight | height | occasion | quarter | through |
business | eighth | history | occasionally | question | various |
calendar | enough | imagine | often | recent | weight |
caught | exercise | increase | opposite | regular | woman |
centre | experience | important | ordinary | reign | women |
Additionally, each cycle will include words that contain specific phonemes, prefixes and suffixes. Lists will be sent home in students' Blue Spelling books, with a view to learning them well before they are tested on the Friday of the following week. Spellings can also be practised on Spelling Shed, using the student's login.
AutumnTest 116.09.22 | joyous | dangerous | poisonous | nervous | famous |
foundation | alteration | information | sensation | observation | |
Test 230.09.22 | young | touch | rough | trouble | country |
internet | interact | interfere | interrupt | international | |
Test 314.10.22 | treasure | enclosure | pleasure | measurement | leisurely |
scene | science | muscle | scissors | scented | |
Test 431.10.22 | accident | actual | address | answer | appear |
arrive | believe | bicycle | breath | breathe | |
Test 514.11.22 | firstly | squirted | thirty | thirteen | circle |
haunt | August | caught | naughty | naughtily | |
Test 625.11.22 | centre | century | certain | decide | exercise |
| experience | medicine | notice | recent | sentence |
