Looking for an easy-to-use baseline assessment to support teaching Year 3 spellings? Have a look at our Year 3 Spelling Baseline Assessment covering homophones, near homophones and common exception words. This Year 3 spelling assessment pack also includes a teacher guide containing a script and further information including the spelling content domains so you can clearly see the coverage of the assessment and the 6 weeks worth of resources which can be used after this initial assessment.

This baseline assessment covers the following spelling domains:

S39, S40, S48, S49 and S51 Spelling patterns recap

S61 Homophones

S61 Near homophones

S37 Common exception words

You can also find further resource activity packs on our website to support your teaching of the spelling domains covered in this baseline assessment.