📅 Daily Practice
A mixed set from your chosen word list — words you're less sure of come up more often.
📄 Past Papers
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About the Year 6 spelling test
The spelling test is Paper 2 of the KS2 grammar, punctuation and spelling SATs. The teacher reads 20 sentences aloud, each with a word missing, and the child writes the missing word. Each correct spelling is worth 1 mark.
Which words should Year 6 know?
The national curriculum has two statutory word lists: 100 words for Years 3 and 4, and 100 words for Years 5 and 6. Words like accommodate, necessary, rhythm and yacht are on them. You can see all 200 statutory spelling words on one page, and search or print them.
How the practice works
Practice here uses Look, Cover, Write, Check. You see the word in a sentence, hide it, then write it from memory. Words you get wrong come back more often, and a word won't repeat until at least 50 others have been practised.
Tips for tricky words
- Find the word inside the word: there's "a rat" in separate and "science" in conscience.
- Say it as it's spelt: Feb-ru-ary, Wed-nes-day.
- Little and often: five words a day beats fifty the night before.
Ready for a full practice run? Try the free SATs mock papers, which have answer booklets, or the real government papers on the past papers page.