Department of Education resources
A range of learning resources can be found on the Department of Education’s NSW Student learning library. These are accessible for teachers, parents and carers, and students and can be used in the classroom or at home to develop confidence with spelling in Stage 1 students.
The learning sequences for Year 2 English would be particularly useful for future Premier's Spelling Bee participants.
External spelling resources, games and podcasts
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- ABC Education Spelling resources. From short, interactive games to fascinating articles and podcasts on all things spelling.
- ABC Spell Block Academy. Especially for younger children, kindergarten to year 3. Game and quizzes you can tailor to suit a particular stage or curriculum area.
- Arkadium Australia. Free online puzzles and word games, spelling and literacy-focused.
- Crossword and Anagram Solver is a tool for using at home to practise spelling and learn new vocabulary.
- Games Games. From simple to complex, games and puzzles from a UK website. Broad curriculum areas including many spelling games.
- Macquarie Dictionary podcasts for children. Our official wordlist supplier, the site has many articles and podcasts exploring language. Engaging information for the serious student of linguistics.
- Ozspeller. Gradeable oral spelling games, years 1 to 8.
- Premier's Sporting Challenge Spelling Fitness Circuit. From the thinking, while moving series, this is a short video demonstration of an active spelling game. There are further links to literacy-based physical games on the PSC pages.
- Spelfabet free games. Good selection of educational games, including entries from ABC and BBC. Useful games and links - especially to BBC UK sites.
- Spell words well. Contains free games with gradeable and printable worksheets. The site can be student-driven and has useful information for parents and teachers.
Spelling tips
These 10 spelling tips from Susan Butler, previous editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, will help teachers, contestants and their parents with some trickier spelling aspects. Macquarie Dictionary is the official word list supplier for the Premier's Spelling Bee.
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