Spellings Year 4
Based on Support for Spelling and the National Curriculum 2014
Support for spelling is a fantastic programme which is available to view online and has some great ideas which support the teaching of spelling in schools.
Support for Spelling Objectives |
NC 2014 links |
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Autumn Term 1 |
To distinguish between the spelling and meaning of Homophones.
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Key Words history, grammar, century, increase, pressure, position, naughty, notice Statutory expectations to cover accept/except, affect/effect, ball/bawl, berry/bury, brake/break, fair/fare, grate/great, groan/grown, heel/heal/he’ll, knot/not, mail/male, main/mane, meat/meet, medal/meddle, missed/mist, peace/piece, plain/plane, rain/rein/reign, scene/seen, weather/whether, whose/who’s |
NB. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently. |
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Autumn Term 2
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To investigate collect and classify spelling patterns relating to the formation of plurals. OUT |
Key Words describe breathe, breath, calendar, forward(s), height, promise, straight, remember Statutory expectations to cover Use of the French ‘gue’ and ‘que’ New NC with examples League, tongue, antique, unique Statutory expectations to cover Use of the Latin words where the ‘s’ sound is spelt ‘sc’ New NC with examples Science, scene, discipline, fascinate, crescent, scent. Statutory expectations to cover Words with –sure or – ture endings New NC with examples Measure, treasure, pleasure, enclosure, creatures, furniture, picture, nature, adventure. |
NB. Beware words which sound similar but have (t)ch endings (eg. teacher, catcher, richer, stretcher) |
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Spring 1 |
To investigate and learn to spell words with common letter strings. OUT |
Key Words accident(ally), occasion(ally), centre, difficult, mention, ordinary, purpose, special, extreme Statutory expectations to cover Use of the letter string ‘ch’ New NC with examples Greek - scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character French – chef, chalet, machine, brochure |
NB. ‘ch’ – with greek origin sounds ‘c’ whereas if they have French origin sounds ‘sh’ |
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Spring 2 |
To understand how suffixes change the function of words. OUT |
Key Words Famous, various
No obvious root – tremendous, enormous, jealous. Ending in ‘our’ – humorous, glamorous, vigorous, Keeping the final ‘e’ – courageous, outrageous, Further examples – serious, obvious, curious, hideous, spontaneous, courteous. |
NB – Usual rules apply for obvious root words. Rule - If word ends in ‘our’ it is changed to ‘or’ before ‘ous’ is added. |
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Summer 1 |
To understand the use of the apostrophe in contracted forms of words. Word examples don’t, aren’t, can’t, hadn’t, doesn’t, couldn’t, I’d (for I had and I would), you’re, they’re, I’ve, you’ll, I’ll, he’ll, I’m, you’ve. |
Key Words Island, knowledge, medicine, possess/possession, strange, suppose, Statutory expectations to cover Possessive form of apostrophe |
NB. Rule – apostrophe replaces missing letters. ‘It’s’ meaning it is or has. |
NB. Rule – The apostrophe is placed after the plural form of the word. ‘s’ is not added if the word already ends in ‘s’ but is added if it does not, as with many irregular verbs (eg. children) Rule – single proper nouns ending in ‘s’ do add an ‘s’ (eg. Cyprus’s population) |
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Summer 2 |
To revise and investigate links between meaning and spelling when using affixes. (Affixes – general term for prefixes or suffixes) Auto – means self or own Example words: Autograph, autobiography, automatic, automobile. |
Key Words Revise ALL words from the year Statutory expectations to cover Use of prefixes. ‘Auto’ and ‘Sub’ New NC examples autograph, autobiography, subheading, subdivide, submerge, submarine. Statutory expectations to cover Use of suffixes -ation, - tion, - sion, -ssion, -cian -ation is added to verbs to form nouns (information, adoration, sensation, preparation, admiration) The following are strictly speaking –ion, but the root word determines their ending. - tion used if the root words ends ‘t’ or –‘te’ (invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion) - sion – is used is the root word ends in ‘d’ or ‘se’ (expansion, extension, comprehension, tension, division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision,) - ssion – is used if the root word ends in ‘ss’ or ‘mit’ (expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission) - cian – is used if the root words ends in ‘c’ or ‘cs’ (musician, electrician, magician, politician, mathematician) |
NB – Objective from support for spelling but the coverage of specific prefixes/ suffixes have changed to match new curriculum requirements. Overlap – auto Affix – the general term for a prefix or a suffix. It is placed at the beginning or end of a root work to change its meaning. It cannot stand alone |
NB – For an extension you could also cover - inter meaning between or among, - anti means against, |