How it works
- Type or paste the spellings, one per line or separated by commas.
- Name the list (for example “Week 5” or “Year 2 ‑tion words”) so it prints on every page.
- Tick the activities and choose print, pre-cursive or joined handwriting.
- 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.
Curriculum links in England
- Year 1Children spell the days of the week, name the letters of the alphabet in order and write simple sentences dictated by the teacher.
- Year 2Spelling covers patterns such as -tion, contractions, the possessive apostrophe and homophones.
- Years 3–4Pupils spell commonly misspelt words from the statutory list and use a dictionary to check spellings.
- Years 5–6A second statutory list of 100 words, with silent letters and endings such as -cious and -able.
The DfE writing framework (2025) recommends dictation alongside word practice: once a list is learned, read out a short sentence that uses the words and have pupils write it. It also warns that a weekly test on its own can show what was learned for the test rather than what children use in their writing, so revisit earlier lists too.
Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check isn’t named in the curriculum, but it is a long-standing routine in many English primary schools.
Summarised in our own words from the National Curriculum in England: English programmes of study, English Appendix 1: Spelling and the DfE writing framework.
