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Humanities (History / geography)
Spelling
Year 4 National Curriculum requirements
Pupils should be taught to
- develop a range of personal strategies for learning new and irregular words*
- develop a range of personal strategies for spelling at the point of composition*
- develop a range of strategies for checking and proofreading spellings after writing*
- use further prefixes and suffixes and understand how to add them (English Appendix 1)
- spell further homophones
- spell words that are often misspelt (English Appendix 1)
- place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals
- (for example, girls’, boys’) and in words with irregular plurals (for example, children’s)
- use the first two or three letters of a word to check its spelling in a dictionary
- write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words
- and punctuation taught so far
- Proofread for spelling errors.
Statutory word list for Years 3 and 4
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accident(ally) actual(ly) address answer appear arrive believe bicycle breath breathe build busy/business calendar caught centre century certain circle complete consider continue decide describe different (Phase 5) difficult disappear |
early earth eight (h)/eighth enough exercise experience experiment extreme famous favourite February forward(s) fruit grammar group guard guide heard(h) heart height history imagine increase important interest island |
knowledge learn length library material medicine mention minute natural naughty notice occasion(ally) often opposite ordinary particular peculiar perhaps popular position possess(ion) possible potatoes pressure probably promise |
quarter question recent regular reign (h) remember sentence separate special straight strange strength suppose surprise therefore though/although thought through (Phase 5) (h) various weight (h) woman/women |