Spellings
Here you'll find the weekly spellings for Year 3. Spellings will be set and tested Fridays.
Spellings for 21st July (last spelling test!)
mixture
texture
lecture
puncture
literature
sculpture
fracture
signature
miniature
temperature
Spellings for 14th July
creature
picture
nature
furniture
capture
culture
moisture
future
gesture
structure
Spellings for 7th July
treasure
measure
pleasure
enclosure
closure
leisure
exposure
pressure
composure
fissure
Spellings for 30th June
natural
occasional
actual
accidental
medical
national
capital
vocal
sensational
personal
Spellings for 23rd June
scope
telescope
microscope
horoscope
periscope
inspect
spectator
respect
perspective
spectacles
Spellings for 19th May
woman
wonder
month
govern
brother
another
shovel
above
Monday
discover
Spellings for 12th May
library
February
dictionary
boundary
salary
summary
primary
secondary
ordinary
necessary
Spellings for 5th May
address
busy
business
heart
fruit
breathe
strange
complete
extreme
forwards
Due to some technical issues, these spellings will be for 5th May rather than 28th April so that the children still have the full time to learn them.
Spellings for 31st March
chef
chalet
machine
parachute
chute
dislike
disobey
discover
disappear
disbelieve
Spellings for 24th March
league
plague
rogue
vague
fatigue
unique
antique
mosque
cheque
technique
Spellings for 17th March
bicycle
biplane
bisect
bilingual
biannual
reappear
redecorate
reapply
repay
rebuild
Spellings for 10th March
scheme
chorus
echo
character
ache
chaos
stomach
chemistry
orchestra
technology
Spellings for 10th February
gardener
gardening
limited
limiting
offering
offered
focused
focusing
I have taken off 'benefited' and 'benefiting' as the words are commonly spelt with a double 'tt' in Standard English. I am aware that there are alternate spellings of 'focused' and 'focusing' - although both are accepted in Standard English, if the children use 'ss' or 's' in these spellings, they will be marked as correct.
Spellings for 3rd February
myth
gym
Egypt
pyramid
mystery
hymn
system
symbol
lyric
typical
Spellings for 27th January
believe
appear
often
group
beneath
continue
arrive
women
describe
height
Spellings for 20th January
truly
duly
wholly
fully
daily
publicly
dryly
slyly
shyly
coyly
Spellings for 13th January
basically
frantically
dramatically
magically
tragically
comically
actually
accidentally
occasionally
eventually
Spellings for 9th December
There are no spellings for 2nd December as we have a visitor in all day.
gently
simply
humbly
nobly
horribly
terribly
possibly
incredibly
comfortably
probably
Spellings for 25th November
happily
angrily
lazily
easily
busily
greedily
messily
wearily
cheekily
clumsily
Spellings for 18th November
kindly
quickly
safely
rudely
sweetly
strongly
bravely
secretly
finally
usually
Spellings for 11th November
berry
bury
brake
break
meet
meat
ball
bawl
fair
fare
As these are homophones, children will need to know which word to write. We will go through their meanings in class and I will put them into a sentence during the test itself, but please look at this at home as well.
Spellings for 21st October
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hear
heel
heal
main
mane
male
knot
not
As these are homophones, children will need to know which word to write. We will go through their meanings in class and I will put them into a sentence during the test itself, but please look at this at home as well.
Spellings for 14th October
earth
early
learn
heard
earn
pearl
search
unearth
earl
rehearse
Spellings for 7th October
straight
campaign
contain
brain
faint
waist
claim
praise
complaint
afraid
Spellings for 30th September
hey
they
obey
grey
prey
whey
survey
convey
disobey
purvey
Spellings for 23rd September
eight
eighth
eighty
weight
neighbour
vein
veil
beige
sleigh
freight