Year 7 NAPLAN Spelling Practice Test 3

A free spelling test with recorded audio and proofreading questions.

30 questions18 audio12 proofreading

Next step Run all 30 questions with your class, one at a time on the big screen. That’s 1 of 30. Run the other 29 with your class, on the big screen.

See the word list

Word list

Choose a word’s icon to preview its question.

Print or save as PDF.

Free access for Australian school staff. Use your school email to get started.

Spelling Boost Year 7

NAPLAN
Practice Test 3

10 of 30 words

1 grown
2 possible
3 breakfast
4 thumbnail
5 dirtier
6 crate
7 miserable
8 fitness
9 thought
10 drought
11 temporary
12 canyon
13 genius
14 precipitation
15 graphic
16 symbols
17 previously
18 sketches
19 awkwardly
20 instrument
21 evaluation
22 symphony
23 antiseptic
24 sponsored
25 exaggerated
26 excitement
27 references
28 emptiness
29 echoes
30 twelfth

+ 20 more words in this test

About this test Preparation, question formats and teacher notes

Before you start

Ask students to number a page from 1 to 30, or print an answer sheet. Open classroom mode before projecting: the word list stays on this page, and you choose when to reveal each answer.

Use the word list to check paper responses. The free player does not collect or mark student work.

Three ways to practise

1–18 · Listen and spell
Play the word and its sentence. Students write the word. Replay as often as needed.
19–24 · Correct the highlighted word
Students write the correct spelling of the highlighted mistake.
25–30 · Find and correct the mistake
Students find the misspelt word in a sentence and write its correct spelling.

From the Spelling Boost NAPLAN Practice collection, using historical NAPLAN spelling content from 2008–2016. Year levels are a guide: preview the words and choose what fits your class. These are practice resources, not complete official papers or standardised assessments.

Enable JavaScript to expand the word list, preview questions, print an answer sheet and use classroom mode. You can listen to the sample above without it.

More practice with Spelling Boost

Listen and spell

Set a task for your class. Students hear each word in a sentence, in an Australian voice, then make their own attempt.
A rematch with clues

A missed word comes back with clues that unlock one at a time: the kind of miss, the spelling rule, then its syllables and parts. The answer comes last.
Coach’s corner
Rematch · your try was “litening”

Letter pattern A spelling pattern is hiding in this word First
igh spells /aɪ/ here The rule, with your word hidden After a try
light · ning Syllables and word parts After two
The word, face down Hold to peek if you still need it

Clues first. The answer last.
Word Explorer

Each word’s sounds, syllables, parts, family and origin in one place, so a tricky spelling connects to words students already know.
What sticks

Words won back in a rematch, and words still right on another task a week later, shown apart.