Exception Words

English: Year 3 & 4 National Curriculum, topic 1.1.2

Reading Exception Words

You have learned lots of different spelling and phonics rules. But sometimes, words don't follow these rules and don't sound as you would expect them to. You should know how to read these words, even though they don't follow normal spelling rules...

Accident

Accident

Bicycle

Bicycle

Experiment

Experiment

Knowledge

Knowledge

Medicine

Medicine

Separate

Separate

Test yourself on Exception Words

  • Which word should go in the gap?

    He was in a car ____.

  • How do we spell the word in the picture?

  • Which words are spelt correctly?

  • How do we spell the word that goes in the gap?

    I did not mean to break that. It was an ____.

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