SATs Test Spelling Practice - Year 5

This pack contains 6 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 in the Year 5 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’
• 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 word endings which sound like ‘shus’ spelt -cious or -tious
• Spell word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial
• Spell words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/ -ency
• Spell words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly
• Spell words containing the letter-string ‘ough’
• Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters
• Spell some of the Year 5 and 6 words correctly
• Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c