SpellingYears 3–5Common Exception Words

Year 3/4 statutory word list

Spell words from the Y3/4 statutory word list: accident, actual, address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle, breath, breathe, build, busy, calendar, caught, centre, century, certain, circle, complete, consider, continue, decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear, early, earth, eight, enough, exercise, experience, experiment, extreme, famous, favourite, February, forward, fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important, interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material, medicine, mention, minute, natural, naughty, notice, occasion, often, opposite, ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, position, possess, possible, potatoes, pressure, probably, promise, purpose, quarter, question, recent, regular, reign, remember, sentence, separate, special, straight, strange, strength, suppose, surprise, therefore, though, through, various, weight, woman, women

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have a secret code book 📖. The Year 3/4 word list is like a special list of tricky words you need to learn to spell!

  2. 2

    Which word means 'something bad that happens by mistake'?

  3. 3

    Let's spell 'accident' together!

  4. 4

    Build the word 'accident' by dragging the letters into the right order.

  5. 5

    How many 'c's are in 'accident'?

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