Spelling Word Lists (age 9+)
Your child can spell harder list words like necessary and immediately. They use memory tricks to lock in the tricky parts.
In curriculum terms
Spell words from the statutory word list for Years 5 and 6, including words with irregular or uncommon spelling patterns that must be learned individually
Ages are typical, not deadlines — follow your child’s pace. How to help at home →
How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
Can your child spell the challenging words on their school's Year 5 and 6 word list — like "accommodate," "conscience," or "prejudice" — from memory when writing?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
recognise and know how to write most high-frequency words including some homophones
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.