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Spelling: Practice Questions with Answers

Curriculum: SpellingGrades: 1–3Questions: 12Mode: Practice

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1. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. dawg
  2. god
  3. dogg
  4. dog
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Answer: D. dog
Dog has a short o sound spelled with just the letter o, followed by g. Sounding out each letter helps you spell short words correctly.

2. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. suun
  2. sunn
  3. sun
  4. son
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Answer: C. sun
Sun has a short u sound, spelled with one u, and ends with a single n. Short vowel words usually use just one vowel letter.

3. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. haat
  2. hat
  3. hatt
  4. het
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Answer: B. hat
Hat has a short a sound spelled with one a, and it ends with a single t. This matches the pattern of most short vowel words.

4. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. fis
  2. fish
  3. fsh
  4. fihs
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Answer: B. fish
Fish uses the letters s and h together to make one new sound, called a digraph. The letters sh always stay together and make the "shhh" sound.

5. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. ship
  2. shipp
  3. shp
  4. siip
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Answer: A. ship
Ship starts with the sh digraph, which makes the "shhh" sound, followed by the short i sound and a single p.

6. Which word means more than one cat?

  1. cates
  2. catz
  3. catss
  4. cats
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Answer: D. cats
To show more than one of most nouns, you simply add the letter s to the end of the word, so cat becomes cats.

7. Which word means more than one dog?

  1. dogs
  2. dogz
  3. doggs
  4. dosg
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Answer: A. dogs
Dogs is spelled by adding s to the end of dog, which is how most words show that there is more than one.

8. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. chp
  2. cip
  3. shp
  4. chip
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Answer: D. chip
Chip begins with the ch digraph, which makes one sound like the start of "choo-choo," and it needs a vowel to hear the short i sound.

9. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. reed
  2. red
  3. rad
  4. redd
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Answer: B. red
Red has a short e sound spelled with one e, and it ends with a single d, following the pattern of short vowel words.

10. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. top
  2. tup
  3. tap
  4. topp
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Answer: A. top
Top has a short o sound in the middle, spelled with the letter o, between the letters t and p.

11. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. bugg
  2. buug
  3. big
  4. bug
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Answer: D. bug
Bug has a short u sound spelled with one u, matching the sound you hear in the middle of the word.

12. Which word is spelled correctly?

  1. wich
  2. wsih
  3. wish
  4. wsh
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Answer: C. wish
Wish uses the sh digraph at the end to make the "shhh" sound, with a vowel i in the middle so the word can be read aloud.
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