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Free Spelling Worksheets — All Year Levels

23 free spelling resources. Spelling lists and patterns by year level. Typically taught from Foundation to Year 8.

  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 1: Short 'a' Words

    Ten simple three-letter words with the short 'a' sound, such as cat and hat. Your child traces each word, fills gaps in short sentences,…

    Difficulty
    Getting started
    Time
    10 min
    Questions
    40 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 2: Short 'o' Words

    Ten three-letter words with the short 'o' sound, such as dog and hop. Your child traces each word, completes gap-fill sentences,…

    Difficulty
    Getting started
    Time
    10 min
    Questions
    40 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 1: sh, ch and th Words

    Ten words with the digraphs sh, ch and th, where two letters work together to make one sound. Your child traces the words, fills gaps in…

    Difficulty
    Getting started
    Time
    12 min
    Questions
    40 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 2: Magic 'e' Words

    Ten words where a silent 'e' at the end makes the vowel say its name (cake, bike, hope). Your child traces the words, completes gap-fill…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    12 min
    Questions
    40 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 3: Long 'e' Words (ee and ea)

    Ten words with the long 'e' sound spelt ee or ea, such as tree and read. Your child traces the words, fills gaps in sentences, unscrambles…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    12 min
    Questions
    40 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 1: Adding -ing and -ed

    Twelve verbs with the endings -ing and -ed, including words where the last letter is doubled (running, hopped) or the e is dropped…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    48 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 2: Plurals with -s and -es

    Twelve plural nouns that end in -s or -es. Your child learns when to add -es (after s, x, ch and sh sounds) and when a plain -s is enough,…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    48 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 3: Vowel Teams oa, ai and ay

    Twelve words with the vowel teams oa (boat), ai (rain) and ay (play). Your child learns that ai usually sits in the middle of a word and…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    48 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Homophones: Words That Sound the Same

    Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things. Students practise the sets that cause the…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    19 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 1: Silent Letters (kn, wr, mb)

    Twelve words with a silent letter: the silent k in knee, the silent w in write and the silent b in lamb. Your child writes each word three…

    Difficulty
    Level 1 · Easier
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    48 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 2: Prefixes un-, re- and dis-

    Twelve words built with the prefixes un- (not), re- (again) and dis- (not or opposite). Your child learns that the base word keeps its…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    48 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 3: Changing y to i

    Twelve words that follow the 'change y to i' rule: baby becomes babies, cry becomes cried, happy becomes happily. Your child learns when…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    48 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Tricky Homophones

    Students tackle the homophone pairs that trip up even confident spellers: whose/who's, its/it's, your/you're, weather/whether, and the…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    15 min
    Questions
    20 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 1: Words Ending in -tion

    Fifteen words that end in the suffix -tion, pronounced 'shun', such as station and celebration. Your child writes each word three times,…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 2: Homophones

    Fifteen common homophones: words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things (their, there, they're; here,…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 3: Soft c and Soft g

    Fifteen words where c makes an 's' sound (city, circle) or g makes a 'j' sound (giant, bridge). Your child learns that this usually…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 1: -able and -ible

    Fifteen adjectives ending in -able or -ible, such as comfortable and possible. Your child learns the rule of thumb for choosing between…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 2: Tricky 'ough' Words

    Fifteen words containing the letter string 'ough', which can be pronounced in several different ways (though, through, thought, rough,…

    Difficulty
    Level 3 · Challenge
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 3: Words Ending in -sion

    Fifteen words ending in -sion or -ssion, such as television, decision and permission. Your child learns how these endings differ from…

    Difficulty
    Level 3 · Challenge
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 1: Commonly Misspelt Words

    Fifteen words that Australian students often get wrong, including Australian spellings such as colour, favourite and organise. Your child…

    Difficulty
    Level 3 · Challenge
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 2: Easily Confused Words

    Fifteen words that are often mixed up because they sound alike or almost alike: principal and principle, stationary and stationery, affect…

    Difficulty
    Level 3 · Challenge
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Spelling List

    Spelling List 3: Words Ending in -ous and -ious

    Fifteen adjectives ending in -ous, -ious or -eous, such as dangerous, curious and delicious. Your child learns that -ous means 'full of'…

    Difficulty
    Level 3 · Challenge
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    51 questions
    Answers
    Answers included
  • Worksheet

    Commonly Confused Words (affect/effect, their/there/they're, etc.)

    Students sort out the word pairs and triples that spell-checkers miss and markers notice: affect/effect, their/there/they're, your/you're,…

    Difficulty
    Level 2 · Standard
    Time
    20 min
    Questions
    16 questions
    Answers
    Answers included