SATs Test Spelling Practice - Year 3

This pack contains six SATs-style spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support.

The spelling patterns covered on the Year 3 spelling test are:

• Use more prefixes.
• Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
  *Use the suffix -ly
• Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
• Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’ e.g. division, decision
• Spell homophones
• Spell words that are often misspelt (English Appendix 1)
• Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words e.g. myth, gym
• Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
• Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’ e.g. scheme, school, echo
• Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’ e.g. chef, machine
• Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’ e.g. eight, they