The step after matching a word to a picture: instead of choosing the word, the child writes it. Letter boxes on the gentler settings show how many sounds to listen for; the challenge setting takes them away.
Grade 1 · medium
Name each picture. Write one letter in each box.
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Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.
Three and four letter words, with a box per letter.
Up to six letters, still with boxes.
Up to eight letters on a plain line, with nothing to count.
Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.
One box per letter is a small scaffold that does a lot of work. It tells the child how many sounds to look for, which stops the common early error of writing kt for cat and being satisfied with it. The empty middle box is a question they now have to answer.
It also makes the sheet self-checking in a rough way — a word that does not fill its boxes is not finished.
A spelling sheet with the word written at the top is a copying exercise. Using a picture as the prompt means the child has to generate the word from the sound in their own head, which is what spelling actually is.
It is the same reason the phonics sheets on this site use drawings: the prompt has to be readable by a child who cannot read.
A spelling test is read aloud by an adult. This one a child can do alone, because the picture is the prompt.
Counting boxes is a real support. Removing them is the difference between filling in a word and spelling one.
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