Spelling Word Lists (age 7+)
Spell words from the statutory word list for Years 3 and 4, including commonly misspelt words that do not follow regular patterns
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Can your child spell the tricky words on their school's Year 3 and 4 word list — like "enough," "believe," or "separate" — from memory when writing?
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solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
spell one- and two-syllable words with common letter patterns
use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
understand how to apply knowledge of common base words, prefixes, suffixes and generalisations for adding a suffix to a base word to read and comprehend new multimorphemic words
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.