Year 3 and 4 Spelling Patterns: Tricky Graphemes
Fill in the tricky Year 3 and 4 graphemes (ch for /k/ and /sh/, -gue, -que, sc, ei, ey, y as /i/) in the DfE example words, with an answer key.
Grade 3 · Spelling worksheet
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Year 3 and 4 Spelling Patterns: Tricky Graphemes (ch, -gue, -que, sc, ei, ey, y)
Fill in the missing letters, then write the whole word. The bracket tells you which spelling is at work.
Word bank
GymChefEchoObeyVeinSceneSchemeTongueUniqueMachineScienceChemistPyramid
- 1.s blank eme (the /k/ sound spelt ch)
- 2.blank emist (the /k/ sound spelt ch)
- 3.e blank o (the /k/ sound spelt ch)
- 4.ma blank ine (the /sh/ sound spelt ch)
- 5.blank ef (the /sh/ sound spelt ch)
- 6.ton blank (-gue or -que)
- 7.uni blank (-gue or -que)
- 8.blank ience (the /s/ sound spelt sc)
- 9.blank ene (the /s/ sound spelt sc)
- 10.g_m (the /i/ sound spelt y)
- 11.p_ramid (the /i/ sound spelt y)
- 12.v blank n (the /ay/ sound spelt ei)
- 13.ob blank (the /ay/ sound spelt ey)
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- DfE, English Appendix 1: Spelling (statutory) — Statutory word lists, spelling rules and example words are reproduced verbatim from the DfE appendix under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Crown copyright).