Year 4 English · The statutory word list and the dictionary · Summary
Year 4 English The statutory word list and the dictionary: summary and key words
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Chapter summary
| Skill | Method |
|---|---|
| Words from accident to certain | accident(ally), actual(ly), address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle, breath, breathe, build, busy/business, calendar, caught, centre, century, certain |
| Words from circle to extreme | circle, complete, consider, continue, decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear, early, earth, eight/eighth, enough, exercise, experience, experiment, extreme |
| Words from famous to important | famous, favourite, February, forward(s), fruit, grammar, group, guard, guide, heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase, important |
| Words from interest to opposite | interest, island, knowledge, learn, length, library, material, medicine, mention, minute, natural, naughty, notice, occasion(ally), often, opposite |
| Words from ordinary to regular | ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, position, possess(ion), possible, potatoes, pressure, probably, promise, purpose, quarter, question, recent, regular |
| Words from reign to women | reign, remember, sentence, separate, special, straight, strange, strength, suppose, surprise, therefore, though/although, thought, through, various, weight, woman/women |
| The dictionary | Alphabetical order by the first, second and third letters. An entry has a headword and a definition. Guide words are the first and last words on a page. |
Can you…?
- I can spell the words on the statutory list, from accident to women
- I can say what each word means, and find its tricky letters
- I can put words in alphabetical order, using the second and third letters when the first letters match
- I can use the guide words, headword and definition in a dictionary
- I can use a dictionary to check the spelling and meaning of a word
Key terms
- statutory word list
- a list of words that pupils in Years 3 and 4 must learn to spell
- alphabetical order
- the order of the letters of the alphabet, from a to z
- dictionary
- a book of words in alphabetical order, with their meanings
- entry
- the information in a dictionary about one word, starting with its headword
- headword
- the word in bold at the start of a dictionary entry
- definition
- what a word means, as given in a dictionary entry
- guide words
- the first and last words on a dictionary page, at the top of the page
- silent letter
- a letter that is written in a word but is not said