Printable spelling worksheets

• Spelling practice — write it three times — Twelve words to write out three times each on ruled lines — the oldest spelling exercise there is, on the words phonics stops helping with.
• Missing letters — Eighteen words with two letters taken out of each — never the first, and never two in a row — with the answer key on the page behind.
• ABC order — Fifteen everyday words to put in alphabetical order, printed as a word bank with a numbered ruled line for each, and the ordered list as the key.
• Word shapes — Sixteen words to write into the outline their letters make — a tall box for a letter that reaches the top line, a small one for a letter that does not, and a dropped box for a tail.
• Use it in a sentence — Eight of the hardest sight words, each with two ruled lines to use it in a sentence of the child's own.

• Sight words to write out — The first twelve sight words, each written out three times on ruled lines — the words that turn up most often and are least worth sounding out.
• Sight words to trace — Twelve sight words on ⅝-inch handwriting paper, each traced once in dots and then written on an empty stretch of line.
• Find the sight word — Twelve sight words, each printed beside three words it is easily mistaken for, with the matching one to circle and the key behind.

• Rhyming words — Twelve words, each with four to choose from, and one of the four rhymes with it. The answer key is on the page behind.
• Syllables — Twenty words to break into syllables, from one-beat words up to four, with the count written on a ruled line and the key behind.
• Word families — Twenty-four sums to blend into words — a beginning, an ending, and the word the two make — across fourteen of the commonest word families.
• Prefixes — Eighteen prefixes to add to the front of a word — un-, re-, dis-, pre-, mis- and more — with the new word written on a ruled line.
• Suffixes — Eighteen suffixes to add to the end of a word — -ful, -less, -ness, -ly, -ing, -ed and -er — including the words that change before the ending goes on.
• Plurals — one and more than one — Twenty words to write as more than one, covering every route English takes to a plural: -s, -es, -ies, -ves, and the ones that change shape entirely.
• Contractions — Twelve pairs of words to join to the short form they make, with the apostrophe where the missing letters were — matched up rather than written out.
• Homophones — Twelve sentences with a pair of homophones beside each — their and there, to and two, blue and blew — and a ruled gap for the one that belongs.
• Synonyms — Twelve words to join to a word that means the same — big and large, begin and start, quiet and silent — in two columns with a pencil line between.
• Antonyms — Twelve words, each with four to choose from, and one of the four means the opposite. The answer key prints on the page behind.

A spelling list is not a worksheet, and that is the whole design here: the list is the content and the exercise is a setting. The same twelve words print as a page to write out three times, a page with two letters missing from each word, a page of word shapes to write into, a page to put in ABC order, a page to use each word in a sentence, a page to pick each word out from the words it gets confused with, or a blank test with nothing on it but numbered lines.

Which means Monday and Friday are the same list. The words go in through one box — typed, or pasted off whatever the school sent home, newlines and commas both understood — and every sheet for the week comes off the same list without retyping it once.

Paper cannot say a word out loud, which is the one half of spelling a worksheet has never been able to do. Word Jungle deals the same sight-word lists as flash cards: the word is spoken, then spoken in a sentence, and typed back — which is what makes a homophone answerable at all. A list a parent types in there is a list this shelf can print, and the record book keeps track of which words a child keeps missing, so the next sheet can be exactly those.

The Name: line is printed blank and filled in with a pencil. Nothing is uploaded to make a sheet, no account is needed to print one, and a sheet you send to another family carries the words and the settings you chose and nothing else — see what we don’t collect.