Common Exception Words
Homophones
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Careful consideration to teach and learn Year 3/4 Common Exception Words across the year. See National Curriculum for further examples of words applied to spelling rules including exceptions to the rule. |
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Autumn 1
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Recap Year 2 spelling work -tion –ness –full (phase 6) (attention to adding suffixes) Possessive apostrophes in singular and plural words
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Recap Year 3 ‘gue’ - Tounge and Unique ‘eigh’ - eight ‘a’ - obey -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian (invention, division, expression, musician) rain, rein, reign, whose, who’s, weather, whether |
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Recap Year 2 spelling work -ly –less –ment -ed –ing (phase 6) -ee spelt -y (busy, business) split digraphs (arrive, complete, decide, describe, extreme, guide, surprise) |
tion and sion suffixes (mention, occasion, position, possession, question) including exceptions to the rule |
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Autumn 2
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Year 2 Recap Homophones -i spelt with a –y (myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery)
not, knot, male, mail, medal, meddle, here, hear, heel, heal, he’ll |
Suffix: -ation (information, adoration, sensation)
where, wear, where, were
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words with unstressed vowels: different, favourite, February, interest, library, ordinary, separate |
s spelt c before e, i and y (bicycle, centre, century, certain, circle, decide, exercise, experience, medicine, notice, recent) |
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Spring 1
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Suffix: -ly (sadly, completely, finally) including exceptions to the rule
accept, except, affect, effect, ball, bawl, berry, bury
-sure and -ture word endings (measure, creature) |
plain, plane, seen, scene
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n spelt kn: (knowledge, knowledgeable)
-ly and -ally suffix (accidentally, actually, occasionally, probably) |
ous endings (famous, various)
answer, build, calendar, consider, continue |
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Spring 2
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-u spelt -ou (young, double)
Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, in-, il- (undo, disobey, misbehave, inactive, illegal)
break, brake, fair, fare, great, grate, groan, grown |
Prefixes: inter-, anti-, auto-, super-, -anti (interactive, antisocial, autograph, supermarket, antiseptic)
weight, wait, eight, ate
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Prefixes: -dis, -re (disappear, disbelieve, rebuild, reposition)
The same words without prefixes (appear, believe, build, position) |
early, earth, experiment, group, guard, forward, forwards, fruit, heard, heart, history, imagine, important, increase, island |
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Summer 1
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-ay spelt –ei, -eigh, -ey (vein, weigh, obey)
Suffixes beginning with vowels added to multi syllable words: -en, -ing, -er, -ed (forgotten, forgetting, beginner, preferred) |
Long i spelt y in initial and medial positions of word (myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery)
Prefixes: -inter-, re-, ir-, im- (interact, redo, irregular, immature) |
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ay spelt ei (eight, eighth, reign, weight)
igh spelt ei (height) |
learn, length, material, minute, natural, often, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, potatoes, promise, purpose |
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Summer 2 |
Prefix: sub- (subdivide, submerge)
main, mane, meat, meet, missed, mist piece, peace |
k spelt –ch (scheme, chorus, chemist) s spelt –ch (chef, chalet, machine) g spelt –gue (league, tongue) k spelt –que (antique, unique) |
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Words with double consonants: address, appear, arrive, different, difficult, disappear, grammar, occasion, opposite, pressure, suppose |
quarter, regular, remember, sentence, special, straight, strange, strength, surprise, therefore, woman, women |
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