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Year 3 Spelling Rules. By the end of Year 1 most children will have been exposed to and learnt up to the end of Phase 5 in phonics. The spelling and ‘sound’ knowledge learnt up to Phase 5 continues to be a solid foundation which children should use to help with their spelling.
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By the end of Year 1 most children will have been exposed to and learnt up to the end of Phase 5 in phonics. The spelling and ‘sound’ knowledge learnt up to Phase 5 continues to be a solid foundation which children should use to help with their spelling.
During Year 2 and 3 children will: • Continue to use phonics to segment and blend words for reading and spelling. • Learn some spelling rules and patterns which occur frequently in the English language. • Learn some exceptions to the spelling rules.
Phonic terminology • Phoneme – a single unit of sound • Grapheme – the written representation of a sound (letters) • Digraph – 2 letters making one sound • Trigraph – 3 letters making one sound
Vowels and consonants • There are 26 letters in the alphabet – 5 of these are vowels, 21 of these are consonants. • Some digraphs make ‘vowel sounds’ such as /ai/ay/ae/a _ e/ • The letter y can also make a vowel sound though the letter itself is a consonant.
Word endings • -le is the most common way of making the /l/ sound at the end of a word e.g. table, middle • -el is a less common spelling of /l/ at the end of a word and usually follows an m,n,r,s,v or w e.g. tunnel, travel • -al this is not a common spelling. It can be used as a suffix to create an adjective e.g. natural, or for some occasional nouns • -ilis a very rare spelling and it is better for these words to be learnt in isolation e.g. pencil, fossil, nostril
Suffixes • Children learn how to add a suffix to a word by looking at the root word and following a spelling pattern. • Root word – a word that has no prefix or suffix attached.
Vowel Suffixes -ing an action or process (continuous) -ed past tense -est most -er more/a person that does an action -y adjective (characterizing)
Consonant Suffixes -ful full of -ness noun -ly adverb -less without -ment action or result
Vowel suffixes ingedester y The letter y acts as a vowel by making the /ee/ sound at the end of a word. If the root word has a short vowel sound there must be 2 consonants before a vowel suffix can be added. e.g. swim swimming drink drinking Exception to the rule – x is never doubled e.g. mix mixer
Vowel suffixes ingedester y The letter y acts as a vowel by making the /ee/ sound at the end of a word. If the root word has a long vowel sound no change needs to be made to the root word before adding the suffix e.g. coach coaching dream dreaming
Vowel suffixes ingedester y The letter y acts as a vowel by making the /ee/ sound at the end of a word. If the root word ends with the letter e then the e must be dropped before adding the suffixes e.g. bake baking like liked
Consonant suffixes -ful -ness -less -ly -ment If a suffix starts with a consonant it is usually added on with no change to the root word. e.g. enjoy enjoyment sad sadness Exceptions – argument If the root word has 2+ syllables and ends with a consonant followed by a y then the y is changed to an I e.g. happy happiness