Most parents know their child is using spelling.live, but they don't always know how it's going. Are they practising regularly? Which words keep tripping them up? Are they actually using the harder modes like handwriting, or just clicking through the easy multiple-choice questions?
Progress reports answer all of that — delivered directly to your inbox, written in plain English, without you having to log in and dig through data.
What's in each report
Every report covers the full picture of how your child practised during the week (or month, if you prefer):
- Sessions and active days — how many times they sat down to practise, and how many different days they showed up
- Words practised and accuracy — total attempts with an overall percentage correct
- Tricky words — the specific words they missed most, so you know exactly where to focus
- Practice modes — a breakdown of accuracy across Pick It, Voice, and Write It modes
- Bonus games — whether they played the spelling race game and how many sessions that was
- New word lists — any lists you added during the period, so you can see if they've been practising the ones you set
- AI Spelling Coach usage — whether they used the coach to get help on specific words
Why practice mode matters
Not all spelling practice is equally challenging. spelling.live has three distinct practice modes, and a child's accuracy across them tells you a lot:
| Mode | What the child does | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| 🎯 Pick It | Selects the correct spelling from four options | Recognition — lower cognitive load |
| 🎤 Voice | Says the word aloud; AI checks the spelling | Recall — harder than picking |
| ✏️ Write It | Writes the word by hand; AI vision checks letter formation | Production — closest to a real test |
A child who scores 95% on Pick It but 60% on Write It is recognising words they can't yet produce from memory — exactly the gap that matters on a Friday morning spelling test. Seeing the mode breakdown in the weekly report helps you spot this and nudge them towards more writing practice.
The AI-written summary
The numbers are useful, but the part most parents find valuable is the short paragraph at the top of each report. It's written fresh each week by the same AI that powers the spelling coach — it reads the stats, notices what changed, and writes a warm, specific summary.
A strong week sounds different from a quiet one. If your child logged five sessions and improved their accuracy, the email says so specifically. If it was a slow week, it gently acknowledges that without making anyone feel guilty. The tone adjusts to what actually happened.
Tricky words get woven in naturally. If "necessary" has been missed three times this week, the AI mentions it and might suggest using the coach to get a mnemonic for it.
Weekly or monthly — your choice
Weekly reports arrive every Friday, covering the past seven days. Monthly reports arrive on the first of each month, covering the past four weeks — useful if you don't want a weekly check-in but still want to know how a term is going.
You can switch frequency or unsubscribe at any time. Every email has an unsubscribe link in the footer, and settings are available in your account.
Turning reports on
Progress reports are available to all parents with a spelling.live account. To enable them, go to your account settings and choose weekly or monthly. The first report arrives on the next Friday (for weekly) or first of the month (for monthly) after your child has had at least one active practice session in the window.