How it works
- Type or paste the spellings, one per line or separated by commas.
- Name the list (for example “Week 5” or “Grade 2 ‑tion words”) so it prints on every page.
- Tick the activities and choose print or cursive.
- 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.
CAPS links
- Grades 1–2Spelling is informal and follows the sounds taught in that week’s phonics.
- Grade 3A more formal spelling programme starts, with occasional informal spelling tests and dictation.
- Alphabet orderIn Grade 3, sorts letters and words into alphabetical order.
CAPS ties spelling to phonics: the week’s spelling words should come from the sounds taught that week. So a Grade 2 list for the oo week might be moon, soon, food, spoon and room.
CAPS also says correct spelling should show in children’s everyday writing, not only in tests. In Grades 1 and 2, use the trace-and-write and letter box pages for the week’s phonics words, and keep the test page for Grade 3, when spelling becomes more formal. Check the words in children’s journals too.
Summarised in our own words from the DBE’s CAPS for English Home Language, Foundation Phase Grades R–3 (2011).
