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Type this week's spelling words, separated by commas or each on its own line. Each word gets a row: a solid model, two dotted copies, then space to write it without looking.

Pick a built-in list, or choose My own words and type them below.

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Letter style

US school print is upright ball-and-stick print. Sloped print is an Australian school hand.

Guide lines
Show stroke arrows

On the solid letters, a numbered dot shows where each stroke starts and an arrow shows which way it goes. US school print and cursive only: sloped print has no arrows.

Paper
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  • US Letter or A4

The name is never saved on this site's server. This browser remembers the first name and size so the sheet is ready next time.

Class set

One copy for every student: type the first names and get one PDF, with each name on that student's own pages. Every student's pages use the same settings.

Class lists are used only to draw the pages and are never saved.

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This is the sheet as it prints. Change any option and it updates.

Where the built-in lists come from

The built-in lists come from Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller (1920), a public-domain American speller. Its first grade list has 150 words in fifteen lessons of ten; the three 1st grade lists here are lessons 1 to 5, 6 to 10 and 11 to 15. No public-domain kindergarten speller was found, so the kindergarten list is the book's first four lessons: forty short, common words such as is, and, can and dog. One spelling is modernized: to-day is shown as today.

Three examples

  • A spelling worksheet with short words, each with a model, two dotted copies and space to write.
    The kindergarten list in US school print.
  • A spelling worksheet for the words cat, hat, sat, mat, bat and rat with a name at the top.
    Typed words with commas, and a first name on the Name line.
  • A spelling worksheet in sloped print.
    1st grade lessons 6 to 10 in sloped print on A4 paper.

Questions and answers

Where do the built-in spelling lists come from?

From Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller for Grades One to Eight, by Ernest Horn and Ernest J. Ashbaugh (1920), read from Project Gutenberg. It is in the public domain in the United States. The book says each first grade word was found in letters people wrote and in most first grade readers of its time.

Is the kindergarten list from a kindergarten speller?

No. The speller starts at first grade, and no public-domain kindergarten list was found. The kindergarten list here is the speller's first four lessons. Schools choose their own lists, so type the class list if it is different.

How many words can I type?

Up to 600 characters and 60 words. Each word takes one row, and the PDF adds pages as needed, up to ten.

Can I print the same list for a whole class?

Yes. Type up to 30 first names under Class set. Each student gets the list with their own first name on the Name line, all in one PDF.

Is the word list saved anywhere?

Typed words are used only to draw the sheet and are not saved or logged on this site's server. A sheet made from a built-in list with no name may be kept in the server's cache, because it is the same for everyone.

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