Word work – year 3 Phonic Phase 7 MTP FOR NON SPAG WEEKS
Term 1
Year 3
Spelling tests
Week 2
Adding ing to verbs – no extra doubling
Week 3
suffix -ing 2 no extra doubling
suffix -ing 3 no doubling
Week 4:
Where a word only adds ing e.g. walk – walking
Rule: the word ends with 2 consonants.
Week4
Adding ing to verbs http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm
Word shark: suffix -ing 1doubling
Week 3:
Where a word ends with a short vowel followed by a constant e.g. swim – becomes swimming
Week5
Adding ing to verbs by dropping the e & revision
suffix -ing 4 drop e
suffix -ing 5
suffix -ing mixed
suffix -ed mixed
Where word ends in an ‘e’ drop the ‘e’ to add ing e.g. brake - braking
Week 6
Yr 3 W19 – common vocab concluding speech (speech tags) e.g. said, replied, asked (link to dialogue
in literacy)
Week 7
Yr 3/ 4 W3 building from other words with similar patterns and meanings e.g. love (lovely, loved,
lovable)
1. happy 2. talk 3. care 4. freeze 5. act 6. medic
Yr 3 / 4 W6 – spelling by analogy with other known words e.g. light, fright
Week8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
le spelling pattern
Word shark: -le 1
-le 2
-le 3
-stle -cle
le spelling pattern
Word shark: -le exceptions 1
-le exceptions 2
Common prefixes un de dis re pre
Word shark: prefix re- de- pre
Common prefixes un de dis re pre
Word shark: prefix re- de- pre
Yr 3 W11 – generate new words from root words – antonyms e.g. happy/unhappy or appear /
disappear
Week 14
Word shark: using rhyme
Term 2
Week 1
Year 3
Week 2
Common suffixes http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm
Word shark:- suffix -ly adj to adverb
suffix -ful noun to adj
suffix -ful -less
suffix -less
Adding er, then est http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm
Word shark: suffix -er -est 1 comparatives
suffix -er -est 2 comparatives
suffix -er -est 3 comparatives
Adding er, est, ish work shark
suffix -er -est -ish mixed comparatives
Week 3
W8 Adding er, est, ish work shark
suffix -er -est -ish mixed comparatives
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Compound Words
Work shark: compound words
high frequency compound words
W12 to recognise and generate compound words, e.g playground, airport, shoelace, underneath; and
to use this knowledge to support their spelling; (Spelling bank p.12)
Adding s to nouns
Work shark: plurals
W9 to investigate and identify basic rules for changing the spelling of nouns when s is added;
Words with silent letters http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm
Work shark: wr- silent w
kn- gn- silent k,g
mb silent b
silent l
W10 to investigate, spell and read words with silent letters, e.g. knee, gnat, wrinkle; (Spelling bank
p.11)
W24 – to explore opposites, e.g. upper/lower, rude/polite
Suffix y
Word shark: suffix -y
suffix y drop e
suffix er, est, y mixed
Apostrophes to shorten words
W15 to use the apostrophe to spell shortened forms of words, e.g. don’t, can’t. (Spelling bank p.15)
http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm
Word shark:- root word to new
short forms 1
short forms 2
short forms 3
short forms 4
W18 to infer the meaning of unknown words from context and generate a range of possible meanings,
e.g. for the word 'ochre' in a particular sentence, discuss which is the most likely meaning and why;
W7 to practise new spellings regularly by ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ strategy;
W13 to collect new words from reading and work in other subjects and create ways of categorising
and logging them, e.g. personal dictionaries, glossaries;
Term 3
Year 3
Week 1
Week 2
W9 prefixes mis, non
Week 3
Week 4
S19 speech tags
Week 5
Week 5 – W10 use prefixes generate new words – root words.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/wordbuilding/prefixes/index.shtml
Word shark:- root word to new
W6 Syllables
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/soundandspell/syllables/index.shtml
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
W9 prefixes ex, co, anti
W13 – synonyms in dialogue
W8 short words within longer words
Homophones – sound the same – spelt and mean different things e.g. write, right, rite W14
http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm
Confusing words e.g. of / off, to / too, its / it’s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/recognising/confusingwords/index.shtml
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
W15 dictionaries – words with multiple meanings. Homonyms – same spelling or pronunciation but
different meaning.
Homographs – same spelling different meaning, pronunciation may be different. Calf cattle, calf leg,
pole metal, North Pole, lead people, lead pencil, polish table, Polish people.
W11 – short forms – contractions / apostrophes to shorten words
http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm
W16 common expressions e.g. ways of expressing surprise, apology, greeting, warning, thanking,
refusing