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Year 4 Spellings
Active Spellings
Autumn Term
These are the words we learn during our active spelling lesson, they are different to the words the children are sent home for our weekly spellings.
Week 1 (double consonant) | Week 2 (adding ly) | Week 3 (ou) | Week 4 (ch making ‘k’ sound) | Week 5 (‘gue’) |
slammed grabbed suffered regretting wrapping bigger planner shopper forgotten | completely hurriedly wrongly correctly brightly sweetly softly swiftly strangely dearly | astound fountain account mountain amount announce armour bounce bound sound | chemist chemistry chorus mechanic scheme character stomach technology technical technique | intrigue prologue technique analogue monologue epilogue oblique synagogue brogue morgue |
Week 6 (y for ‘I’) | Week 7 (prefix inter) | Week 8 (prefix auto) | Week 9 (adding -ation to make them nouns) | Week 10 (-tion) |
rhyme rhythm syrup symptom symbol physics crystal physical system crypt | interact international interrelated interfere intercept interchange interconnect interrupt intersect intermission | autobiography autography automatic autopilot autoalarm automobile autonomy autocue autofocus autocracy | equation punctuation hesitation population relation relaxation civilisation evacuation fertilisation animation | invention mention hesitation completion communication presentation vibration decoration population distraction |
Common Exception Words for Year 4
Exception words are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual or uncommon way. They are not words for which phonics 'doesn't work', but they may be exceptions to spelling rules, or words which use a particular combination of letters to represent sound patterns in a rare or unique way.
Exception words are also referred to as tricky words or sight words.
Some exception words are used very frequently, which is why children are introduced to them very early on in their phonics learning.
Here is the list of Year 3 & 4 100 words that the children learn when in Year 3 and 4 and are expected to be able to spell by end of the Year 4:
| accident(ally) | disappear | interest | pressure |
| actual(ly) | early | island | probably |
| address | earth | knowledge | promise |
| answer | eight/eighth | learn | purpose |
| appear | enough | length | quarter |
| arrive | exercise | library | question |
| believe | experience | material | recent |
| bicycle | experiment | medicine | regular |
| breath | extreme | mention | reign |
| breathe | famous | minute | remember |
| build | favourite | natural | sentence |
| busy/business | February | naughty | separate |
| calendar | forward(s) | notice | special |
| caught | fruit | occasion(ally) | straight |
| centre | grammar | often | strange |
| century | group | opposite | strength |
| certain | guard | ordinary | suppose |
| circle | guide | particular | surprise |
| complete | heard | peculiar | therefore |
| consider | heart | popular | thought |
| decide | history | position | through |
| describe | imagine | possess(ion) | various |
| different | increase | possible | weight |
| difficult | important | potatoes | woman/women |