How it works
- Type or paste the spellings, one per line or separated by commas.
- Name the list (for example “Week 5” or “Year 2 ‑tion words”) so it prints on every page.
- Tick the activities and choose print or NZ style handwriting.
- Download one PDF with every activity, then the answer sheets at the back.
Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Children look carefully at the word and say it, cover it by folding along the dashed line, write it from memory, then unfold and check it letter by letter. The sheet gives two tries per word, so a word spelt wrong the first time gets a second go straight away.
A week of spelling practice
One activity a day keeps practice short: tracing and writing on Monday, Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check on Tuesday, the scramble and alphabetical order mid-week, letter boxes as a quiet task, and the test on Friday. Your list is saved in this browser, so next week you only change the words.
In the New Zealand Curriculum
- First 6 monthsSpelling words by breaking them into sounds, plus common words such as I, the and a.
- Year 1Spelling some common tricky words, such as was, of and said.
- Year 2Words with the endings -s, -ed and -ing, and contractions such as I’m and we’re.
- Years 3–5Longer words split into syllables and then sounds, then common homophones in Year 4 and less common ones in Year 5.
The refreshed English curriculum ties spelling closely to phonics: children break a word into sounds before they write it. A junior list built from this week’s sounds, with one or two tricky words, fits that well.
The Ministry’s guides give example words rather than a set national list, so the words come from your school’s own programme.
Summarised in our own words from the New Zealand Curriculum: English, Years 0–6 (2025), and the Ministry of Education’s year-by-year guide for parents and whānau.
