SATs Test Spelling Practice - Year 4

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 this Year 4 spelling test are:

• Use more prefixes.
• Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one
• Use the suffix -ly
• Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
• Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
• Spell homophones
• Spell words that are often misspelt
• Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
• Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
• Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
• Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
• Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘e’
• Use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, i-r, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
• Understand and add suffix -ation,
• Add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
• Spell words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt -que
• Spell homophones and near-homophones
• Spell more complex words that are often misspelt for Years 3 and 4
• Spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
• Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals