Students use sound patterns, syllables and word parts to read and write longer words.
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Year 4 · Conventions of language
Spelling and word knowledge
Use sounds, syllables, letter patterns, word families, prefixes, suffixes and homophones.
100 questions and practical tasks · 10 practice sets
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Set 1
Questions 1–10
multisyllabic spelling
10 questions & tasks → Set 2Questions 11–20
multisyllabic spelling
10 questions & tasks → Set 3Questions 21–30
multisyllabic spelling
10 questions & tasks → Set 4Questions 31–40
prefixes and suffixes
10 questions & tasks → Set 5Questions 41–50
prefixes and suffixes
10 questions & tasks → Set 6Questions 51–60
homophones in context
10 questions & tasks → Set 7Questions 61–70
homophones in context
10 questions & tasks → Set 8Questions 71–80
word families and meaningful parts
10 questions & tasks → Set 9Questions 81–90
word families and meaningful parts · checking spelling patterns · word origins and spelling
10 questions & tasks → Set 10Questions 91–100
word origins and spelling · checking spelling patterns
10 questions & tasks →Curriculum links
These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.
Students use spelling patterns, word families and word parts rather than relying only on memory.
Students practise common words and use sentence meaning to choose between homophones.
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