Year 3 and 4 Vocabulary

Grammar
Can your child read the word? Say the
preposition, conjunction, word family,
word? Spell it? Define it? Use it in a
prefix, clause, subordinate clause
sentence?
direct speech, consonant, consonant,
Can they create crosswords,
vowel, inverted commas (or ‘speech
wordsearches and codebreakers?
marks’), determiner, pronoun,
Could you enjoy a game of hangman
possessive pronoun, adverbial
together?

All parents want their Word Patterns

Maths
child to do well in Writing the word in unusual places or
Numbers to one thousand, tenths,
school. One way to help with unusual tools helps with word
hundredths, decimal (places), round (to
nearest), thousand more/less than, your child is to help learning. For example, in big chalk
negative integers, count through zero, them build their letters on the patio or wall; using a
Roman numerals (I to C) vocabulary. On the left paint brush with water on a fence;
Multiplication facts (up to 12x12), you will find some spelling it using pasta letters; writing
division facts, inverse, derive, tricky grammar and with a stick in the mud or sand;
magnetic letters.
Leap year, twelve-hour/twenty-four- maths terms children
hour clock, convert need to learn in Year 3
Greater/less than ninety degrees, and 4. On the right are Make flashcards and stick them around
orientation, co-ordinates, translation, some activities or the house. How many cards can they
quadrant, x-axis, y-axis read in a minute?
games you could play.
Perimeter and area, horizontal, vertical, Your child could take a card and try and
On the next page you
perpendicular and parallel lines, describe the word to you and you must
quadrilaterals, triangles, right angle, will find the National
guess what it is.
acute and obtuse angles, Curriculum spelling list.
Numerator, denominator, unit fraction,
non-unit fraction, compare and order Ten Questions
tenths, equivalent decimals and Don’t forget! Choose a word. Your child then has 10
fractions Play the word games on questions to ask to try and guess what
Chart, bar chart, frequency table, Spellodrome to build the word is. This can be extended to
Carroll diagram, Venn diagram, diagram, vocabulary. twenty questions. The answers must be
Continuous data, line graph answered with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
 Year 3 and 4 Spelling List

accident(ally) disappear interest pressure

actual(ly) early island probably
address earth knowledge promise
answer eight/eighth learn purpose
appear enough length quarter
arrive exercise library question
believe experience material recent
bicycle experiment medicine regular
breath extreme mention reign
breathe famous minute remember
build favourite natural sentence
busy/business February naughty separate
calendar forward(s) notice special
caught fruit occasion(ally) straight
centre grammar often strange
century group opposite strength
certain guard ordinary suppose
circle guide particular surprise
complete heard peculiar therefore
consider heart perhaps though/although
continue height popular thought
decide history position through
describe imagine possess(ion) various
different increase possible weight
difficult important potatoes woman/women