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Spelling practice

Use a short, repeatable spelling routine with your own words. Look carefully, cover the word, write it from memory, and compare the spelling before moving on.

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How to use the spelling practice

  1. Enter the spellings you want to learn. You can keep regional spellings such as colour or color exactly as you need them.
  2. Study the displayed word. Notice a difficult letter sequence and say the word to yourself.
  3. Choose Cover & write, then type the spelling from memory. Check it to see the correct word and your own attempt.
  4. At the end, retry just the missed words or begin the whole list again. Print a look-cover-write-check table for a paper session.

Try a spelling practice example

Load an editable starter list, then change it to suit your lesson.

A small spelling week

because
friend
people
thought
enough
believe

Notice the endings

helpful
careful
hopeful
careless
hopeless
thankful
playful
fearless

Make a mistake useful

When an answer is wrong, pause to compare the two spellings. Which letters changed, disappeared or moved? Study that part before going on. The shorter retry round keeps those words together, with its own score, so a second attempt does not overwrite what happened in the first round.

A spelling check is not a dictation test

This tool shows the word before it is covered; it does not read a word aloud or test an unseen word in context. Add a clue to give the word meaning during the look stage. Use a separate spoken prompt or sentence if you want to test listening and spelling together.

Use paper and screen for the same routine

The printed table has a word column, a writing column, a try-again column and a check box. Fold or cover the first column while writing. Keep sessions manageable for the individual learner. Case and surrounding whitespace do not affect the online check; accents and the entered spelling do.

Questions about spelling practice

Can I retry only the words I missed?

Yes. The completion screen offers a round containing only missed words. The new round has a separate score.

Will my list be saved online?

No. The current list, unfinished edits and lists on My lists stay in this browser. Export a text copy for your own backup; use a share link when you want another person to open the set.

Use this list for the next step

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A LITTLE GUIDANCE

From words to “I’ve got it!”

  1. Add your list. Use 3–24 distinct words with 2–18 Latin letters each. Accents, spaces, hyphens and apostrophes work too.
  2. Give it meaning. Use the word-and-clue fields, or paste entries with a vertical bar: forest | An area covered with trees. Use one entry per line when adding clues.
  3. Create, then explore. All six activities use the same list. Save favourites to My lists on this device. Play view clears the setup away; Reset starts the current game again.
  4. Play, print or share. Print a worksheet or all six activities, with separate answer keys. Shared links reproduce the list and game layout.

Matching uses clues when every word has a different clue. Otherwise, it uses scrambled-letter spelling matches. Equivalent anagram answers are accepted. Bingo uses the largest board your list can fill without repeated words.

 PASS THE POSSIBILITY ON

Good words travel.

This link opens your list and activity in the focused play view. Each person plays on their own device.

The link includes all words and clues, including answers. Share it only with people you intend to see the list.

 A LITTLE LESS SCREEN TIME

Clean worksheets, with room to think. Use your browser’s “Save as PDF” for a digital copy.

 YOUR WORDS, YOUR BUSINESS

A small, simple studio.

Your current list, unfinished edits and lists you choose to save are kept in this browser’s local storage. My lists holds up to 12 lists on this device; it does not sync between devices. We don’t send them to a database or load third-party fonts. Optional Google Analytics loads only after you choose to allow it; change your choice using Analytics settings in the footer.

Share links contain the complete list and clues in the URL fragment. Anyone with the link can read them. Hosting providers may keep ordinary request logs; fragments aren’t part of HTTP requests.

“Clear current list” removes the current list and unfinished edits, then resets to the example. Lists on your shelf stay until you remove them from My lists. It doesn’t delete exported files or links you’ve already shared. Avoid putting personal information in a word list.

 YOUR LITTLE LESSON SHELF

Good lists are worth keeping.

Save up to 12 lists on this device. Use the same title to update a saved list, or a new title to keep a new one.

These lists stay in this browser. Export a text copy to keep a separate backup.