1. Information Evening
Year 3 and 4 Spelling

2. National Requirements 2014
National Curriculum 2014

3. How we teach spellings - Y3
1. Teach a rule in discreet lesson
2. The next day we go over the rule
3. Revise the rule from previous week
4. Revise rule from a month a go

4. Y4 lesson Here are 4 ways to make the /shun/ sound -tion –sion –ssion -cian
Make a list of all the words you can think of using this sound and try to group them.

5. -tion
Action
Temptation
Completion
-sion
Tension
Version
Excursion
-ssion
Permission
Obsession
Confession
-cian
Musician
Magician
Electrician
Now can you think of the rule?

6. -tion root word ends in -t or –te, drop e and add tion
-sion root word ends in -s or –se, drop e and add sion
-ssion root word ends in -ss or –mit
-cian root word ends in -c or -s, or –cs where the s is dropped

7. -tion –sion –ssion -cian
Spaced retrieval
Use a word from each group in a sentence
-tion –sion –ssion -cian

8. Year 3 and 4 Word list We also need to spell these words Spelling List
By end of year 3 children need to be able to spell 50% of them to reach the expected standard in writing.
By end of Year 4 ALL OF THEM in order to reach the expected standard in writing.

9. Assessment Requirements Year 3
Spell words with additional prefixes and suffixes, for example- dis/mis/in
Recognise and spell some homophones correctly- see spelling programme of study
Use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary
Spell some words from Year 3 and 4 word list correctly (approx. 50%)
Identify the root in longer words

10. Assessment requirements Year 4
Spell words with additional prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them to root words, for example- ation, ous, ion, ian.
Recognise and spell additional homophones, for example- except and accept, whose and who’s.
Use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary.
Spell correctly word families based on common words, for example- solve, solution, solver.
Spell identified commonly misspelt words from Year 3 and 4 word list

11. Editing After writing Use dictionaries Peers Then we assess!
Summer Term –Focus is on the word list as we have covered all statutory rules