Year 3 Spring Spelling Resources
Year 3 Spring Spelling Resources
Develop confident spellers with our Year 3 Spring spelling resources, fully aligned with the National Curriculum and part of the Mrs Mactivity SPaG scheme. These weekly packs cover prefixes, suffixes and key spelling patterns designed to extend pupils’ vocabulary and word knowledge throughout the spring term.
Each pack includes a spelling list, Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheet and dictation passage to support regular classroom spelling practice and independent learning.
What Year 3 covers in Spring
The Year 3 Spring spelling strand introduces common prefixes and suffixes alongside words from the statutory list. Pupils explore word meanings and spelling patterns to strengthen their spelling accuracy and vocabulary. Weekly focuses include:
- Prefixes: super-, sub-, auto-, anti-, inter-
- Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, and re-
- Suffixes: -ly and -ally
- Words with the ch sound (scheme, chef, machine)
- Words ending in gue and que (league, antique, plaque)
- Year 3 and 4 statutory word list (calendar, February, grammar, history)
Teachers can use these weekly lists to introduce, practise and review spelling patterns. For full coverage of spelling, punctuation and grammar from Year 1 to Year 6, explore the complete SPaG scheme.
