Year 4 Spellings
Autumn Term 1 Gold Group
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.
The words in gold will follow different rules but are words we would like you to make sure you are confident spelling.
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.
Year 4
Rule One Homophones and
near-homophones
w/c 14/09/15
(to be tested 21/09/15)
Rule Two Homophones
and near-homophones
continued
w/c 21/09/15
(to be tested 28/09/15)
Autumn 1
Rule Three Consonant ‘le’ syllables found
at the end of words include:‘ble’, ‘cle’,
‘fle’, ‘gle’, ‘kle’, ‘ple’. ‘stle’, ‘tle’, ‘zle’.
w/c 28/09/15
(to be tested 05/10/15)
Rule Four Handy hint: ‘Magic’ Mrs ‘e’
makes the vowel say its name, but she
keeps quiet and does not make a sound.
w/c 05/10/15
(to be tested 12/10/15)
Rule Five ‘Magic’ Mrs ‘e’ continued
w/c 12/10/15
(to be tested 19/10/15)
no
to
bubble
cape
come
know
too
handle
cube
came
new
two
table
fire
goes
knew
there
jungle
hire
rescue
think
their
dream
verb
threw
sunk
carrot
meant
person
cried
these
complete
each
afraid
tried
catch
thunder
instead
tube
field
catches
quicker
grandest
rule
chief
kitchen
fresher
jumped
coach
right
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
http://www.spellingcity.com/
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/play.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en01soun-game-syllables-factory
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html#7
Reading regularly and playing word finding games with dictionaries will also extend your knowledge of words
and letter patterns . The more you practice the better you will become 
The list of additional high frequency words that we will be learning about in Year 4 can be found inside your
planners.