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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Spelling Review 3 (Questions)

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This spelling quiz tests elementary school children on a mixture of spellings. These spellings are not in sound groups and so will be the best way to see if a child has remembered these words.

Do you think you know all the spellings? Well, it’s time to test you! All these words have been covered in our Spelling Quizzes but are not in sound groups. Can you spell the missing words?

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1. For this you will need colored ____ and a piece of paper.
[ ] pencals
[ ] pensils
[ ] pencils
[ ] pensuls
2. This little man is a garden ____.
[ ] nome
[ ] knome
[ ] gnome
[ ] nowme
3. Dolphins are the ____ creatures in the world!
[ ] happiest
[ ] happyest
[ ] happyiest
[ ] hapyiest
4. The bird was ____ as it flew around the flower.
[ ] huming
[ ] humin
[ ] hummin
[ ] humming
5. I ____ seen one of these animals before.
[ ] havent
[ ] have'nt
[ ] haven't
[ ] havn't
6. Breaking his arm was a very ____ experience.
[ ] panefall
[ ] painful
[ ] painfal
[ ] painfull
7. They hung my painting in a ____.
[ ] gallery
[ ] gallary
[ ] galary
[ ] galery
8. This is the ____ cat in the whole world!
[ ] sadest
[ ] saddest
[ ] saddist
[ ] sadist
9. I ____ pass that sign if I were you!
[ ] wooldnt
[ ] wouldnt
[ ] wouldn't
[ ] would'nt
10. Your ____ won't get lost in this train ____.
[ ] child and stashun
[ ] child and stasion
[ ] childe and stasion
[ ] child and station
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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Spelling Review 3 (Answers)
1. For this you will need colored ____ and a piece of paper.
[ ] pencals
[ ] pensils
[x] pencils
[ ] pensuls
This spelling pattern looked at the 'il' sound when it made an 'al' sound instead.
2. This little man is a garden ____.
[ ] nome
[ ] knome
[x] gnome
[ ] nowme
This word has a silent 'g'.
3. Dolphins are the ____ creatures in the world!
[x] happiest
[ ] happyest
[ ] happyiest
[ ] hapyiest
If you are changing the root word, like happy, and it ends in a 'y' - we replace the 'y' for an 'i'.
4. The bird was ____ as it flew around the flower.
[ ] huming
[ ] humin
[ ] hummin
[x] humming
It happens to be a hummingbird. The word 'hum' has a short vowel sound, so we need to double the last letter then add 'ing'.
5. I ____ seen one of these animals before.
[ ] havent
[ ] have'nt
[x] haven't
[ ] havn't
The apostrophe replaces the missing 'o'.
6. Breaking his arm was a very ____ experience.
[ ] panefall
[x] painful
[ ] painfal
[ ] painfull
By adding the suffix 'ful' we are saying that he was full of pain!
7. They hung my painting in a ____.
[x] gallery
[ ] gallary
[ ] galary
[ ] galery
You can see plenty of modern art at the Tate Modern in London and admission is free.
8. This is the ____ cat in the whole world!
[ ] sadest
[x] saddest
[ ] saddist
[ ] sadist
We need to add 'd' then 'est' onto the word 'sad'.
9. I ____ pass that sign if I were you!
[ ] wooldnt
[ ] wouldnt
[x] wouldn't
[ ] would'nt
Here we are joining the words would and not together but erasing the 'o'.
10. Your ____ won't get lost in this train ____.
[ ] child and stashun
[ ] child and stasion
[ ] childe and stasion
[x] child and station
The end of station sounds like 'shun' but is spelled 'tion'.