Year 4 · Conventions of language

Spelling and word knowledge

Use sounds, syllables, letter patterns, word families, prefixes, suffixes and homophones.

20 questions and practical tasks · 2 practice sets · filtered to VC2E4LY05

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Set 1

Questions 1–10

homophones in context

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Questions 11–20

homophones in context

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Curriculum links

These activities map to the following Victorian Curriculum English Version 2.0 Level 4 content descriptions.

VC2E4LY05

Students practise common words and use sentence meaning to choose between homophones.

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