A spelling app for your child's own school list - in Australian English

Spelling.Live turns the spelling list your child's school sends home into short daily practice. It was built in the UK, and it teaches the English your child's school uses: when you add your child, choose 🇦🇺 Australian English and everything follows - the spellings we accept, the voice that reads the words, and school years named the way you know them (Foundation onwards).

What it does

• Your school's own list - type it in, or photograph the sheet that came home.
• Ready-made lists - every year level's lists below, in Australian spelling, ready to add in one tap when school hasn't sent a list yet.
• Four ways to practise - choose it, type it, say it and write it, with handwriting checked.
• Paper tests marked from a photo - a real written test, marked in seconds.
• Every mistake diagnosed - the app names the spelling pattern behind it.
• Missed words come back on a spaced schedule until they stick.
• Support for dyslexia and SEN - OpenDyslexic, colour overlays, slower speech and more.
• NAPLAN-ready habits - short, regular practice for the spelling in the Year 3 and Year 5 Conventions of Language test.

Australian spelling follows British forms (colour, favourite, organise), and Spelling.Live reads words aloud in an Australian voice when your child is set to Australian English.

Spelling words by year level

The Australian Curriculum sets out the spelling knowledge expected at each year level but does not publish a single word list, and schools choose their own. These are words commonly taught, grouped by the spelling pattern they practise.

• FoundationAges 5–6
• Year 1Ages 6–7
• Year 2Ages 7–8
• Year 3Ages 8–9
• Year 4Ages 9–10
• Year 5Ages 10–11

Ready-made lists in the app

No list from school yet? Every year level list on this page, is ready-made in Spelling.Live in Australian (British-style) spelling. Set your child to Australian English, open Browse Spelling Lists and add one in a tap. Or let Spelling.Live choose the right list for their year level when you sign up.

For teachers

Teacher accounts get free class tools and 500 credits a month: pupil logins without email addresses, class reports showing the spelling rules behind every mistake, and whole-class paper tests marked from a scan. Already on Google Classroom? Import your class. See Spelling.Live for schools.