Common Exception Words Set 4 Year 3 and Year 4

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Put your spelling knowledge to the test with this interactive Common Exception Words Set 4 Year 3 and Year 4 activity. Select the correct spelling of each word from the options to complete the sentences. Be careful… the spellings might sound the same, but there is only one correct option! Can you answer them all correctly?

Teacher Specific Information

This Common Exception Words Set 4 Year 3 and Year 4 activity aims to challenge pupils’ knowledge of the spellings of common exception words by providing ten sentences with a missing word from each. Common misconceptions are addressed in each of the spellings and the correct spelling of the missing word is selected from the options available. All words in this game have been taken from English Appendix 1: Spelling Word list – years 3 and 4. This game covers the Year 3/4 objective to learn the spellings of specific words.

The words used in this activity are:
eight

eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
famous
February
forward

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National Curriculum Objectives

Reading – Word Reading
read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word