Spelling Scheme - Year 3

Overview

Autumn Term 1A

1. The /ay/ sound spelt ei. 
2. The /ay/ sound spelt ey.
3. Homophones and near-homophones 1.
4. Homophones and near-homophones 2.
5. *The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y. (Year 2 revision).
6. *Double consonants.

Consolidation.

Autumn Term 1B

1. Suffix -ly. 
2. Suffix -ly where the root word ends in y.
3. Adverbs with the suffix -ly where the root word ends in le.
4. Adverbs with the suffix -ly where the root word ends in ic .
5. Adverbs with the suffix -ly exceptions & consolidation.

Year 3, autumn term, spelling assessment.

Spring Term 2A

1. The prefix dis–.
2. The prefix mis–. 
3. The prefix re-.
4. Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
5. *Split digraph i-e with a short & long vowel sound (Year 1 revision).
6. The /n/ sound spelt kn and gn at the beginning of words. (Year 2 revision).

Consolidation.

Spring Term 2B

1. The /k/ sound spelt ch. 
2. The /sh/ sound spelt ch.
3. Words ending with the /g/& /k/ sound spelt gue and que.
4. The /s/ sound spelt sc
5. The /i/ sound spelt y.
6. The /u/ sound spelt ou.

Year 3, spring term, spelling assessment.

Summer Term 3A

1. *Words containing the letter string ough. 
2. *Days of the Week & Seasons.
3. *Months of the Year
4. *Time & Place
5. *Cross curricular.
6. *Direction Dimension & Amount.

Consolidation.

Summer Term 3B

1. *The vowel digraph ea and trigraph ear.
2. *Word family – sol. 
3. *Word families – dec, cent, milli & micro.
4. *Conjunctions
5. *Prepositions
6. *Long /ee/ sound spelt y at the end of words.

Year 3, summer term, spelling assessment.

Year 3 - Term 1A

Week 1

Words with the /ay/ sound spelt ei

1. vein
2. weigh 
3. eight
4. neighbour
5. eighth
6. reign
7. weight
8. freight
9. reins
10. veil
11. beige

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Week 2

Words with the /ay/ sound spelt ey.

1. they
2. obey
3. prey 
4. grey
5. survey
6. disobey
7. convey
8. hey

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Week 3

Homophones and near-homophones 1.

1. accept/except 
2. affect/effect
3. ball/bawl
4. berry/bury
5. brake/break
6. fair/fare
7. grate/great
8. groan/grown
9. here/hear
10. heel/heal/hell
11. knot/not

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Week 4

Homophones and near-homophones 2.

1. mail/male
2. main/mane
3. meat/meet
4. medal/meddle 
5. missed/mist
6. peace/piece
7. plain/plane
8. rain/rein/reign
9. scene/seen
10. weather/whether
11. whose/who’s

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Week 5

*The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y (year 2 revision).

1. bicycle
2. centre 
3. century
4. certain
5. circle
6. decide
7. exercise
8. experience
9. medicine
10. notice
11. recent
12. sentence

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Week 6

*Double consonants.

1. accident
2. address
3. appear
4. arrive
5. business
6. different 
7. difficult
8. disappear
9. grammar
10. occasion
11. opposite
12. possess
13. possible
14. pressure
15. suppose

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Year 3 - Term 1B

Week 1

Suffix -ly.

1. sadly 
2. completely
3. usually
4. finally
5. comically
6. quickly
7. quietly
8. kindly
9. gently
10. bravely
11. actually
12. occasionally

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Week 2

Suffix -ly where the root word ends in a y.

1. happily
2. angrily 
3. greedily
4. luckily
5. easily
6. sleepily
7. lazily
8. noisily
9. wearily

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Week 3

Adverbs with the suffix -ly where the root word ends in le.

  1. gently
  2. simply
  3. humbly
  4. nobly
  5. probably
  6. horribly
  7. illegibly
  8. impossibly
  9. incredibly
  10. possibly
  11. terribly
  12. sensibly
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Week 4

Adverbs with the suffix -ly where the root word ends in ic.

1. basically
2. frantically
3. dramatically
4. comically 
5. critically
6. cryptically
7. heroically
8. romantically
9. numerically
10. energetically

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Week 5

Adverbs with the suffix -ly exceptions & consolidation.

1. truly
2. duly
3. wholly 
4. sadly
5. usually
6. finally
7. happily
8. angrily
9. greedily
10. gently
11. simply
12. humbly
13. basically
14. frantically
15. dramatically

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Year 3 - Term 2A

Week 1

The prefix dis–.

1. disappoint
2. disagree 
3. disobey
4. disappear
5. disbelieve
6. discover
7. disease
8. distrust
9. disable
10. disrepair
11. discount
12. disrespectful

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Week 2

The prefix mis–.

1. misbehave
2. mislead
3. misspell 
4. misjudge
5. misfortune
6. misinform
7. misconduct
8. mistake
9. mistreat
10. misuse
11. misplace
12. misprint

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Week 3

The prefix re-

1. redo 
2. refresh
3. return
4. reappear
5. redecorate
6. rebuild
7. reposition
8. reject
9. reduce
10. reflect
11. rearrange
12. revert

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Week 4

Adding suffixes beginning with a vowel to words of more than one syllable.

1. gardening
2. gardener
3. limiting 
4. limited
5. limitation
6. happening
7. forgetting
8. forgotten
9. beginning
10. beginner
11. prefer
12. preferred

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Week 5

*Split Digraph i-e with a shot & long vowel sound (Year 1 revision).

1. arrive 
2. decide
3. describe
4. guide
5. surprise
6. favourite
7. imagine
8. promise

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Week 6

*The /n/ sound spelt kn and gn at the beginning of words. (Year 2 revision.)

1. knock
2. know
3. knee 
4. knowledge
5. knowledgeable
6. knew
7. knife
8. gnat
9. gnaw
10. sign
11. gnome
12. design

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Year 3 - Term 2B

Week 1

The /k/ sound spelt ch.

  1. scheme
  2. chorus
  3. chemist
  4. echo
  5. character
  6. orchid
  7. mechanic
  8. ache
  9. anchor
  10. chaos
  11. monarch

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Week 2

The /sh/ sound spelt ch.

  1. chef
  2. chalet
  3. machine
  4. brochure
  5. parachute
  6. chute
  7. champagne
  8. ricochet
  9. moustache

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Week 3

Words ending with the /g/ & /k/ sound spelt gue and que.

  1. league
  2. tongue
  3. vague
  4. fatigue
  5. intrigue
  6. rogue
  7. antique
  8. unique
  9. technique
  10. mosque
  11. cheque
  12. critique

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Week 4

The /s/ sound spelt sc.

1. science
2. scene
3. discipline 
4. fascinate
5. crescent
6. scissors
7. muscle
8. scenery
9. ascent
10. descent

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Week 5

The /i/ sound spelt y.

  1. myth
  2. gym
  3. Egypt
  4. pyramid
  5. mystery
  6. physical
  7. symbol
  8. system
  9. oxygen
  10. physics
  11. typical
  12. crystal

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Week 6

The /u/ sound spelt ou.

1. young
2. touch
3. double
4. trouble 
5. country
6. group
7. cousin
8. couple
9. courage
10. nourish

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Year 3 - Term 3A

Week 1

*Words containing the letter string ough.

1. enough
2. though
3. although 
4. thought
5. through
6. rough
7. cough
8. sought
9. bought
10. tough

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Week 2

Months of the Year.

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April 
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

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Week 3

Days of the Week & Seasons.

1. Monday
2. Tuesday 
3. Wednesday
4. Thursday
5. Friday
6. Saturday
7. Sunday
8. Week
9. Summer
10. Winter
11. Spring
12. Autumn

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Week 4

*Time

1. second 
2. minute
3. hour
4. day
5. month
6. week
7. year
8. date
9. early
10. late
11. time
12. often
11. calendar

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Week 5

*Cross-curricular

1. answer
2. question 
3. purpose
4. therefore
5. experiment
6. heart
7. history
8. fruit
9. earth
10. island
11. material
12. science

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Week 6

*Direction Dimension & Amount

1. place
2. position 
3. forward
4. backward
5. length
6. increase
7. decrease
8. weight
9. quarter
10. half
11. whole
12. opposite

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Year 3 - Term 3B

Week 1

*The vowel digraph ea and trigraph ear.

1. dream
2. each
3. read (present tense) 
4. breathe
5. head
6. read (past tense)
7. instead
8. breath
9. earth
10. heard
11. learn
12. early

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Week 2

*Word family –sol.

1. solve
2. solution
3. solver 
4. dissolve
5. insoluble
6. resolute
7. resolutions
8. resolve
9. absolute
10. solvent

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Week 3

*Word families – dec, cent, milli, & micro.

1. decade
2. decagon
3. decathlon
4. century 
5. centimetre
6. centigrade
7. millipede
8. millimetre
9. million
10. microscope
11. micrometre
12. micro-organism

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Week 4

*Conjunctions.

1. when
2. before
3. after 
4. while
5. so
6. because
7. than
8. since
9. once
10. until
11. which
12. rather

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Week 5

*Prepositions.

1. above
2. around 
3. before
4. below
5. after
6. during
7. from
8. in
9. than
10. on
11. over
12. under

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Week 6

*Long /ee/ sound spelt y at the end of words.

1. berry
2. bury 
3. busy
4. early
5. February
6. history
7. library
8. naughty
9. ordinary
10. probably
11. forty
12. category

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