Teaching pack: Spellings for year 3

If you’re teaching year 3, Spellings for year 3 could be just what you need.

The pack is divided into six terms of six weeks. Each week focuses on a different spelling rule and features two differentiated spelling lists, a worksheet and a challenge. The pack also includes ideas for spelling games and useful templates.

What’s included?

• Divided into six terms of six weeks, each focusing on a different rule
• Weekly differentiated spelling lists and worksheets
• Spelling templates and suggestions for games

What’s inside?
Introduction (page 4)

Term 1, week 1 – words ending with -el/-il/-al (pages 5-8)
T1, week 2 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 1) (pages 9-13)
T1, wk 3 – adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words of more than one syllable (part 2) (pages 14-17)
T1, wk 4 – words that contain y as a vowel (pages 18-20)
T1, wk 5 – homophones (pages 21-24)
T1, wk 6 – common exception words from year 2 (pages 25-27)

T2, wk 1 — words containing -dg/-dge (revision from year 2) (pages 28-31)
T2, wk 2 — words containing -ou (pages 32-35)
T2, wk 3 — words beginning with dis- (pages 36-39)
T2, wk 4 — words ending in -ation (pages 40-43)
T2, wk 5 — word families (pages 44-46)
T2, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 1 (pages 47-49)

T3, wk 1 — words beginning with gn-/kn- (revision from year 2) (pages 50-52)
T3, wk 2 — words beginning with in- (pages 53-56)
T3, wk 3 — words ending in -ly (part 1) (pages 57-60)
T3, wk 4 — words ending in -sion (pages 61-63)
T3, wk 5 — homophones (pages 64-66)
T3, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 2 (pages 67-70)

T4, wk 1 — words ending in -ness/-ment (revision from year 2) (pages 71-74)
T4, wk 2 — words beginning with il- and ir- (pages 75-79)
T4, wk 3 — words ending with -sure/-ture (pages 80-82)
T4, wk 4 — words ending in -ous (pages 83-87)
T4, wk 5 — word families (pages 88-91)
T4, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 3 (pages 92-96)

T5, wk 1 — compound words (revision from year 2)(pages 97-101)
T5, wk 2 — words ending in -ly (part 2) (pages 102-106)
T5, wk 3 — words beginning with im- (pages 107-109)
T5, wk 4 — words containing ch that sound like hard c (pages 110-112)
T5, wk 5 — words that are homophones (pages 113-116)
T5, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 4 (pages 117-120)

T6, wk 1 — words ending in -less/-ful (revision from year 2) (pages 121-124)
T6, wk 2 — words beginning with re- (pages 125-127)
T6, wk 3 — words containing sc that sound like s (pages 128-132)
T6, wk 4 — words containing eigh that rhyme with ay (pages 133-135)
T6, wk 5 — word families (pages 138-140)
T6, wk 6 — year 3/4 word list 5 (pages 141-143)

Spelling games (pages 144-146)

Look/Say/Cover/Write/Check template (page 147)

Word of the week template (page 148)

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