Literacy Year 3 Term 1

Look, Cover, Write, Check Spelling Activities for NLS Medium Frequency Wordlists (Years 4 and 5). Word Level Objectives: to practise new spellings regularly by "look, say, cover, write, check" strategy; to read and spell correctly the words in Appendix List 2.

National Literacy Strategy Year 3 Term 1

Word Level Work: Spelling conventions and rules

• Adding ing to verbs 1:
  Word Level Objective 8: How the spellings of verbs alter when ing is added. (Typical verbs)

• Adding ing to verbs 2:
  Word Level Objective 8: How the spellings of verbs alter when ing is added. (Verbs ending in e)

• Adding ing to verbs 3:
  Word Level Objective 8: How the spellings of verbs alter when ing is added. (Verbs with short vowels)

• Adding ing to verbs 4:
  Word Level Objective 8: How the spellings of verbs alter when ing is added. (A mixture of the rules in exercises 1 to 3)

• Common Prefixes:
  Word Level Objective 10: recognise and spell common prefixes and how these influence word meanings.

• Antonyms:
  Word Level Objective 11: use knowledge of prefixes to generate new words from root words, especially antonyms.