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These 4th grade worksheets with fill-in crossword puzzles provide excellent spelling practice for your students. Why? Because students must spell each word correctly in order to complete the puzzle.

Whether your students are working at home or at school, we think you'll agree that these spelling worksheets are a worthwhile learning activity!

4th Grade Worksheets

We've used words primarily from our list of fourth grade spelling words in creating these worksheets.

#1 - Tricky Word Endings Fill-In Puzzle

Printable version of puzzle with word list
Answer key

4th grade worksheets - crossword diagram

Students must place each word from this word list into the puzzle. They'll use the number of the letters in each word, along with the letters that are already placed in the puzzle, as clues.

Suggest that your students use pencils. While it looks like some words can go in more than one place in the puzzle, there is only one solution in which every word fits.

5-letter words: color, honor, often

6-letter words: beggar, button, center, common, cotton, crayon, dinner, doctor, drawer, happen, mirror, season, soften

7-letter words: neither, whether, written

8-letter words: neighbor

#2 AL - EL - IL - LE Words Fill-In Puzzle

This puzzle works the same way. Fourth grade spelling practice can be fun!

Printable version of puzzle with word list
Answer key

These 4th grade worksheets provide fun spelling practice for important skills. Students will need to be careful with tricky word endings to complete this fill in.

5-letter words: apple, camel, final, loyal, medal, table, total, towel, uncle

6-letter words: animal, battle, bubble, gentle, middle, nickel, normal, pencil, simple

7-letter words: special

8-letter words: squirrel

Another benefit of using these fill-in crosswords? Students will know right away if they've completed the puzzles correctly, so you won't have to spend much time evaluating their work.

More 4th Grade Worksheets

Grade 4 Worksheets : Three Part Puzzler for fun spelling practice!

NEW! Three Part Puzzler - Students must reconstruct 12 familiar words, syllable by syllable, one from each of three columns, in this challenging page.

Compound Confusions! - This woodpecker introduces your students to a great compound word challenge!

Mystery In the Attic Spelling Worksheet: Kids read a humorous story about a mysterious attic as they choose correctly/incorrectly spelled words.

Free Spelling Worksheets - Can You Spell Well?: If students correctly identify the misspelled words, they'll shade the page to reveal in interesting word.

Wacky Packages - Kids will look at some wacky packages and try to find all the misspelled words.

It Pays to Spell Kids will get some great spelling practice, along with some computational practice which never hurts, right? These reusable pages work with almost any spelling words!

For more fun spelling practice, try our AnyWord Spelling Practice Series. In these three eBooks, you'll find word play worksheets, writing prompts and partner games and activities that work with almost any list of spelling words!

Fourth Grade Writing Prompts

I've written two sets of engaging writing prompts, aligned with our 4th grade spelling word list. Use these stimulating prompts anytime throughout the year for fun spelling and writing practice!

Set #1 Why is you dad carrying all your books at school? Who's the famous bus driver? What's so scary about the grocery bag? Your fourth graders can let their imaginations run wild as they respond to these plus 9 more prompts.

Set #2 Students will explain why there's a camel at the window, why their little brother keeps disappearing, and more. Fun, stimulating fourth grade writing prompts!

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