English Year 3 Phonic & Word Knowledge

Recognise most high-frequency words, know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, and know some homophones and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word

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  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4

    English Unit: Dreaming Soldiers: Book Study

    This unit is based around the text, Dreaming Soldiers. The text presents a variety of themes that have been addressed throughout the unit’s...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Prefixes and Suffixes

    This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students to know how to use common prefixes and suffixes, as well as genera...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Helpful Homophones

    This unit plan has been created to support students to recognise and spell single- syllabic homophones. The unit comes complete with an enga...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    The Emu and the Jabiru – Fix the Sentence

    The Emu and the Jabiru – Fix the Sentence presentation is an engaging literacy activity that helps students identify and correct errors in p...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Prefixes and Suffixes - Presentation

    This comprehensive presentation has been created to guide students through what base words, prefixes and suffixes are. It then focuses on sp...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Helpful Homophones - Presentation

    This engaging and useful presentation has been created to support students to recognise and spell single- syllabic homophones. It includes m...

  • Presentation Year: 2 3

    Fabulous Affixes - Presentation

    This presentation is an excellent way to introduce prefixes, base words and suffixes to your class. The progressive presentation provides ex...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Add -ous to Make Adjectives - Grammar Poster

    This bright and clear grammar poster helps students understand how to add the suffix –ous to nouns to create adjectives. The suffix –ous mea...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Prefix Practice Worksheet - re- or un-

    The Prefix Practice Worksheet - re- or un- focuses on helping students choose between the prefixes re- and un- to form meaningful new words....

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Prefix Practice Worksheet - pre-

    The Prefix Practice Worksheet - pre- introduces students to the prefix pre-, helping them build vocabulary and understand how prefixes chang...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Prefix Practice Worksheet - mis-

    The Prefix Practice Worksheet - mis- introduces students to the prefix mis-, focusing on how it alters the meaning of familiar base words.St...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Prefix Practice Worksheet - dis-

    The Prefix Practice Worksheet - dis- introduces students to the prefix dis-, helping them explore how it changes the meaning of base words.S...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    My Spelling Tracker

    The Spelling Tracking Chart is a student-friendly tool designed to help learners set, track, and reflect on their spelling goals across a 10...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophones Matching Cards

    This engaging resource is designed to help Year 3 and 4 students master homophones in a fun and interactive way. The pack includes matching...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Suffix Skyscraper

    This engaging resource encourages students to explore and apply suffixes creatively. With a hands-on approach, students construct a "suffix...

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Prefix Palace

    This engaging Prefix Palace Craftivity helps students reinforce their understanding of prefixes by constructing a visually appealing palace....

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Reading Multisyllabic Words

    This bright and colourful poster is a valuable reference tool for students and teachers in primary school classrooms. It provides a step-by-...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Prefix and Suffix Posters

    These vibrant posters showcase common prefixes and suffixes, featuring clear explanations and visual aids to help students grasp their meani...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Prefix and Suffix Assessment

    This formative assessment is designed to be used to assess your students’ ability to use spelling generalisations to add  prefixes and suffi...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Super Suffixes- Quiz

    This quiz is a great way for students to demonstrate their understanding of spelling generalisations used when adding suffixes to base words...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Plural Party

    Consolidate knowledge of suffixes with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on the suffixes. Studen...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Spaced Out Suffixes

    Consolidate knowledge of suffixes with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on suffixes, where they...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Superhero Suffixes- -er, -est

    Consolidate knowledge of suffixes with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on the suffixes. Studen...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Superhero Suffixes- -ed, -ing

    Consolidate knowledge of suffixes with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on the suffixes. Studen...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Pirate Prefixes

    Consolidate knowledge of prefixes with this fun, no prep game! Students work their way around the gameboard, landing on prefixes, where they...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Prefix and Suffix Flashcards and Puzzles

    This activity is part of a larger unit of work for Year 3- Prefixes and Suffixes. These handy picture cards are a great visual tool to he...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Plurals- Four-in-a-Row- Year 3

    Are you looking for a fun way to teach plural spelling generalisations to your class? Use this fun and engaging worksheet to reinforce what...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Suffix- Four-in-a-Row- Year 3

    Are you looking for a fun way to teach suffixes to your class? Use this fun and engaging worksheet to reinforce what suffixes and base words...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Colour me- Suffixes- Year 3

    Are you looking for a fun way to teach suffixes to your class? Use these fun and engaging worksheets to reinforce what suffixes and base wor...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Punny Prefixes

    Are you looking for a fun way to teach prefixes to your class? Use this fun and engaging worksheet to reinforce what prefixes and base words...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Prefix- Four-in-a-Row- Year 3

    Are you looking for a fun way to teach prefixes to your class? Use this fun and engaging worksheet to reinforce what prefixes and base words...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Colour me- Prefixes- Year 3

    Are you looking for a fun way to teach prefixes to your class? Use these fun and engaging worksheets to reinforce what prefixes and base wor...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Prefix and Suffix Mats

    These worksheets have been created to use with students when exploring prefixes and suffixes. They contain sections where students will writ...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Plural Spelling Rules

    This colourful visual display has been created to aid students in the spelling generalisations associated with changing singular nouns to pl...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Suffix Spelling Rules

    This colourful visual display has been created to aid students in their spelling of words when adding common suffixes to them. Perfect as a...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Prefixes and Suffix - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference for base words, pre...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophone Quiz

    This quiz will help you assess your student's ability to draw on meaning and context to spell single syllabus homophones. It has been create...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones Helicopters

    This engaging worksheet encourages students to draw on meaning and context to spell single-syllable homophones. They read the text and find...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Hidden Homophones

    This engaging worksheet encourages students to draw on meaning and context to spell single-syllable homophones. Students read each word arou...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones with Henry

    This engaging worksheet encourages students to match the corresponding homophones and add in the missing letters. The worksheet focuses on s...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Helpful Homophones - Student Bookmark

    These handy bookmarks can be given to students to stick into their books and help them spell commonly used homophones. A great reference poi...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Week

    Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Word of the Day

    Put this display up in your classroom for daily reference. A great way to encourage spelling and vocabulary knowledge in your students.  

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Magic Morphemes

    This assessment worksheet is a comprehensive resource to assess student learning in the Year 2 Fabulous Affixes Unit. This task requires stu...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Fabulous Affixes Quiz

    This quiz will test your students’ knowledge on prefixes, base words and suffixes. It contains 10 questions based on the content taught thro...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Morpheme Machine

    These worksheets are a great brainstorming activity for students to develop word banks based on prefixes and suffixes. Each ‘morpheme machin...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Solve the Suffix

    This worksheet is a great hands on task to get students familiar with suffixes and how they work. Complete the passages by adding the correc...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Puzzling Prefixes

    This worksheet is a great hands on task to get students familiar with prefixes and how they work. Cut out the puzzle pieces and match the pr...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Morphemes - Student Reference Card

    Print these reference cards for your students so they can easily refer back to the key concepts of morphemes. Each card provides examples of...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Highlighting Homophones

    Highlighting Homophones

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophones in Hawaii

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use and identify some commonly used homophones. This Hawaiian themed activity sheet...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Haunting Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use a variety of commonly used homophones. The worksheet has two sides with a number...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophone of the Week

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use and identify some commonly used homophones.  This ‘Homophone of the Week’ can ea...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Where, Wear or We’? - Handy Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use the homophones, we’re, where and wear, correctly. It provides a brief explanatio...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    There, Their Or They’re? - Handy Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use the homophones, their, there and they’re, correctly. It provides a brief explana...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    There, They’re and Their Homophone Poster

    This handy poster assists students to use the correct there, they’re or their homophone in their writing! Display this in your class and use...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Lunar Holiday Homophones Worksheet

    A Chinese New Year themed worksheet, created for students to practice and consolidate their knowledge of homophones.

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones

    A colourful poster explains what a homophone is with some examples.  The poster will support the discussion surrounding the understanding...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Homophones - there, they're, their

    A colourful homophones poster explains their, there and they’re with an example of visuals and sentences to support understanding.  The p...

  • Worksheet Year: 3

    Inflectional Endings Game

    Make learning about inflectional endings fun and engaging with this interactive game. Students will practice adding different inflectional e...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Inflectional Endings

    Deepen students' understanding of inflectional endings with this resource. It provides explanations, examples, and practice activities to re...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Your or You're? - Handy Homophones

    This handy worksheet supports students when learning to use the homophones, your and you’re correctly. It provides a brief explanation, exam...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Where OR We're - Homophones

    In this worksheet, students are required to differentiate between the homophones, where and we're.

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Their OR They're - Homophones

    In this worksheet, students are required to differentiate between the homophones, their and they're.

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Homophone Hunter

    Students will match homophones to the matching image as they move around the game board. 

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Article Attraction - a or an

    As students move around the board, they will be required to specify whether the correct article used in front of a particular noun should be...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Terrific Tenses

    'Terrific Tenses' provide definitions of past, present and future tense.

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Plural Noun Snowmen

    In this fun and engaging activity, students will recognise how to make a plural from nouns with a variety of word endings.

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 6

    Homonyms

    Enhance students' language skills and vocabulary with this comprehensive resource on homonyms.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +1

    Common Suffixes Posters

    Students will learn how suffixes affect meaning. They can also explore Greek roots and use suffixes to spell new words.

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

    Common Prefixes Posters

    Students will learn how prefixes affect meaning. They can also explore Greek roots and use prefixes to spell new words and they can build mo...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Sight Word Splat - Dolch Grade 3

    This game is lots of fun and works with the first set of Dolch Grade 3 sight words. It is an exciting game that motivates students of all ag...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3

    Spelling Studio Game - Dolch Word List

    This spelling game is designed to be printed on A3 paper and used in conjunction with our sets of Dolch Flash Cards.   Students will h...

  • Resource Year: 3

    First Second and Third Wordlist Bingo - Class Set

    Made by request, this is a whole class set of 26 bingo cards using the Dolch First, Second and Third Wordlists. Additionally, this set can b...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Dolch Grade 3 Flashcards

    This is the fifth list of words Edward W. Dolch put together comprising 220 commonly used words estimated to comprise approximately 50 - 75%...

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