Use these primary school worksheets to practise and review Year 4 spelling patterns for words from the National Curriculum spelling list. Year 6 spelling words are covered across five challenge sheets, each containing three different types of spelling challenge.

The spelling patterns covered are:

• use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, ir-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
• understand and use the suffix -ation
• add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
• spell homophones and near homophones
• spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
• place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals and in words with irregular plurals
• understand and use the word ‘ous’