ball, call,  walk, talk, always, small, wall, fall, altogether

The sound /or/ spelt ‘a’ before l or ll

This week, we are adding -ed, -est, -ing, -er and -y to words with an ‘e’ at the end with a consonant before it.

A root word is the basic form of a word before any parts are changed or added on. We have seen how root words can be changed by adding different suffixes (endings)…

hiking, hiked, hiker, nicer, nicest, shiny, being, shining, scary

We are still working on using dictionaries in class, how does changing the suffix change the meaning of these words?

Can you write sentences that include these words, or more than one word? e.g.

Miss Smith was the nicest teacher in the school, but Mr Brown was even nicer!

Look at the spellings for this week and compare them to last week’s group, what has changed? What has happened to the root word? How has this changed the meaning of the word? Can you use the new version of the word in a sentence?

copying, crying, replying, marrying, carrying, flying, trying, drying, skiing

Happy New Year! We hope you had a great break.

Adding –ed, -er
and –est to a word ending in –y with a consonant before it

copier, copied, happier, happiest, cried, replied, tried, dried, driest

This term, we are learning to use dictionaries and thesauri to support our learning. The following activities could be used to support learning spellings;

• Write your spellings in alphabetical order, sing the ‘ABC’ song to help  you!
• Look your spellings up in a dictionary, write out a definition
• Look your spellings up in a thesaurus, can you write out synonyms for them?