Year 4 Spelling Programme
Spelling Programme Year 4 This is a termly weekly spelling list, through which all key phonemes, clusters, digraphs or rules are covered from the National Curriculum September 2014. Key aspects or spelling rules to be focussed on that week, are indicated in brackets. It is suggested that the children are tested at the start of the week. This will give an indication as to which words they are confident with and those that require more attention. These list of words will then be sent home on a Monday evening to be learnt with parents over the remainder of the week, before the children are retested on a Friday. These words must be drawn upon throughout the week in other areas of the curriculum, if they are to be embedded. Autumn Term Week Beg: 14/09/15 (‘e’ sound spelt ‘ea’) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
dead head read bread breath spread health wealth feather weather
Week Beg: 21/09/15 (ask, ast,ass words) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
ask mask flask cast fast last vast disaster pass class glass grass
Week Beg: 28/09/15 (‘ur’ sound spelt ur and ure) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
burn turn curl hurt nurse purse curve burst measure treasure picture adventure
Week Beg: 05/10/15 (double consonants) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
happy rabbit tennis messy silly kitten potter coffee summer grammar
Week Beg: 12/10/15 (silent o , h and c – revision) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
young double trouble country chemist character chorus choir scheme scene scenic scenery science scientific discipline fascinate crescent
Week Beg: 19/10/15 (Prefix – dis, mis, in, im, il,ir, un. Change the meaning of the root word) 1. dislike 2. disobey 3. disagree 4. mislead 5. misbehave 6. misspell 7. inactive 8. incorrect 9. invisible 10. illegal 11. illegible 12. impossible 13. imperfect 14. irregular 15. irresponsible 16. unkind 17. unbelievable
Week Beg: 02/11/15 (Prefix – de, re, pre, non. Change the meaning of the root word)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
deform defraud defrost derail destroy review reform rearrange reorganise repair reply prearrange preparation preoccupied prediction nonsense non-effective non-essential
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Week Beg: 09/11/15 (suffix ly added on to root words. Root word ends y; change y to i then add ly. Root word ends le; change to ly Root word end ic, add ally) weekly monthly actually usually finally daily angrily merrily gently simply basically accidentally occasionally
Exception – words just need to learn
14. duly 15. truly 16. wholly
Week Beg: 16/11/15 (‘tcher’ spelt sure/ture ) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
measure treasure pleasure leisure exposure nature future picture puncture adventure Week Beg: 30/11/15 (‘shun’ sound spelt as tion and ation) question fraction position election section destruction instruction station relation education creation operation
Week Beg: 23/11/15 (‘us’ sound spelt ous, ious, eous) 1. dangerous 2. enormous 3. marvellous 4. jealous 5. anxious 6. curious 7. furious 8. delicious 9. hideous 10. courteous Week Beg: 7/12/15 (‘shun’ spelt sion, ssion, cian at the end of a word) 1. vision 2. revision 3. division 4. tension 5. extension 6. expression 7. discussion 8. confession 9. permission 10. possession 11. musician 12. electrician 13. politician 14. matematician
Spring Term Week Beg: 14/12/15 (Prefix – auto, circ, anti. Each have aparticular meaning: auto – self; circ – round; anti - opposite) 1. autograph 2. automatic 3. autobiography 4. automobile 5. circumference 6. circumnavigate 7. circumstance 8. circle 9. circulation 10. antiseptic 11. anti-clockwise 12. antidote Week Beg: 11/01/15 (Prefix –trans, sub. super Each have aparticular meaning: trans – across; sub – below; super – above) 1. transmit 2. transport 3. transplant 4. submarine 5. subheading 6. subdivide 7. superman 8. supermarket 9. superstar.
Week Beg: 25/01/15 (‘’sh’ sound spelt as ch; ‘k’ sound spelt as que and ‘g’ sound spelt like gue – French origin) 1. chef 2. machine 3. brochure 4. parachute 5. antique 6. boutique 7. cheque 8. unique 9. league 10. tongue 11. rogue 12. catalogue
Week Beg: 04/01/16 (Prefix –tele, bi. Each have aparticular meaning: tele – bridging large distances; bi – two) 1. bicycle 2. bisect 3. bifocals 4. binary 5. telephone 6. television 7. telesocope.
Week Beg: 18/01/15 (Suffix –ship, -hood added to root words)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
membership partnership ownership workmanship championship craftsmanship childhood knighthood motherhood fatherhood neighbourhood falsehood Week Beg: 01/02/15 (‘igh’ words)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
high height mighty mightily tighten lightning flight righteous brightly frightening
Week Beg: 08/02/15 (Prefix a, al, ad, af Each have aparticular meaning: al – all; ad/af – towards; a – on or in) 1. ablaze 2. afloat 3. asleep 4. aground 5. almost 6. already 7. always 8. although 9. adverb 10. adjust 11. advance 12. affection Week Beg: 29/02/15 (plurals for words ending ‘ff’; add s) 1. cliff 2. cliffs 3. puff 4. puffs 5. huff 6. huffs
Week Beg: 22/02/15 (plurals for words ending ‘f’ and ‘fe’ . Change f to v and add es) 1. calf 2. calves 3. half 4. halves 5. loaf 6. loaves 7. knife 8. knives 9. wife 10. wives
Week Beg: 14/03/16 (using apostrophes: before the s; possessive clown’s costume; after the s – plural possessive boys’ football) 1. boy 2. boy’s 3. boys 4. boys’ 5. baby 6. baby’s 7. babies 8. babies’ 9. child 10. child’s 11. children 12. children’s
Week Beg: 21/03/16 (Homophones – need to understand the difference in the meaning of the words
Week Beg: 07/03/16 (on sound ending on and en) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
seven often siren given sudden lesson person skeleton season poision
ate eight brake break piece peace medal meddle mail male heal heel he’ll
Summer Term
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Week Beg: 11/04/16 (Using syllables to spell the beats) balloon before describe perhaps difficult money animals different forward(s) important suddenly regular Week Beg: 25/04/16 (able and ible used at the end of words)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
able table stable vegetable miserable lovable horrible incredible invisible possible responsible sensible Week Beg: 09/05/16 (familier root words) helping helped helper helpful helpfully helpless unhelpful graph paragraph autograph photograph geography biography
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Week Beg: 18/04/16 (words ending iv spelt ive) excessive aggressive decisive exclusive expensive competitive motive active attractive captive deceptive inquisitive
Week Beg: 03/05/16 (unstressed vowels e.g. interesting often said ‘intresting’) 1. family 2. different 3. generally 4. marvellous 5. gererous 6. interesting 7. miserable 8. boundary 9. factory 10. separate
Week Beg: 16/05/16 (dictionary work) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
letter order noun verb adjective adverb article homophone antonym synonym definition first last between
15. alphabet
Week Beg: 23/05/16 (tricky words) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
appear breathe consider difficult early enough experience favourite guard guide minute strange Week Beg: 13/06/16 (tricky words) arrive believe remember suppose thought through weight straight earth learn busy business Week Beg: 27/06/16 (revision/recap)
Week Beg: 06/06/16 (tricky words) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
notice opposite particular peculiar popular calendar increase interest promise purpose experiment extreme Week Beg: 20/06/16 (tricky words)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
build continue fruit group heard heart historu imagine island potatoes probably ordinary Week Beg: 04/07/16 (revision/recap)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Look Say Cover Write Check Please use the checksheet below to help your child learn their weekly spellings. If they are secure and can spell the words on three separate occasions, then please work with them each day only on the words they are having difficulties with.
Word
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday