Spelling and Vocabulary Workbook: English - Year 3

The Excel series of Spelling and Vocabulary Workbooks for Years 3–6 will help primary school students improve their spelling and vocabulary—in English and in other subjects. Each unit has a different theme and focuses on a set of work dealing with words: what they mean and how to spell them. All activities are designed to encourage students to think about and enjoy language, and to give them meaningful practice in using it.

Spelling is all about sounds and how we write them. Spelling is not something to worry about because it is something that can be learned. There are spelling rules and patterns that you can learn. This book will show you some of these patterns and teach you some of these rules. It will even teach you clever tricks to help you remember long words and words that don’t fit the rules.

In this book you will find:

• 15 self-contained units of work, each with a different theme
• Topic spelling lists with 18 words
• Spelling lists focusing on common patterns
• ‘Tricky words’ and tips to remember them
• Practical spelling strategies
• Activities to practise and improve spelling
• Strategies to expand students’ knowledge about words and their meanings, and a variety of practice activities
• Activities which encourage students to use context when reading to develop their word power
• Engaging and relevant writing tasks
• 3 comprehensive spelling review units
• Answers to all questions.