NAPLAN - 50 spelling words

The National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual exam taken by students in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9 in Australia. Here are 50 spelling words that have appeared in previous NAPLAN exams, organised by year level.

The NAPLAN assessments play a crucial role in evaluating students' literacy and numeracy skills across various year levels.

As part of the literacy component, students are required to demonstrate their proficiency in spelling by accurately spelling words with varying degrees of complexity. The inclusion of such words aims to reflect the diverse vocabulary encountered in everyday language and academic contexts.

The inclusion of spelling words in the assessments underscores the significance of language skills in fostering effective communication and comprehension, essential for success in various academic and professional pursuits.

Year 3:

1. Adventure

2. Beautiful

3. Celebrate

4. Disappear

5. Exciting

6. Famous

7. Genuine

8. Hospital

9. Interesting

10. Jealous

11. Knowledge

12. Laughed

13. Mountain

14. Necessary

15. Opposite

16. Particular

17. Quickly

18. Restaurant

19. Shining

20. Terrible

21. Unhappy

22. Vacation

23. Wonderful

24. Yesterday

25. Zealous

Year 5:

1. Appropriate

2. Brilliant

3. Challenge

4. Dilemma

5. Environment

6. Flammable

7. Government

8. Hesitate

9. Interrupt

10. Jeopardy

11. Knowledgeable

12. Leisure

13. Mischievous

14. Nuisance

15. Occasion

16. Perceive

17. Quantity

18. Responsible

19. Sufficient

20. Tension

21. Unusual

22. Vicious

23. Wavelength

24. Xenophobia

25. Yielding

Year 7:

1. Accommodation

2. Benefit

3. Consequence

4. Deceive

5. Embarrassment

6. Financial

7. Guaranteed

8. Hierarchy

9. Intuition

10. Judiciary

11. Kilometre

12. Laboratory

13. Misunderstood

14. Narrative

15. Occurrence

16. Particularly

17. Quantitative

18. Resolution

19. Superfluous

20. Technological

21. Unprecedented

22. Vengeful

23. Withdrawal

24. Xenophobic

25. Yearning

Year 9:

1. Accomplishment

2. Beneficiary

3. Conscientious

4. Distinguish

5. Embellishment

6. Financially

7. Hypothetical

8. Judiciary

9. Kinesthetic

10. Leukemia

11. Metamorphosis

12. Notwithstanding

13. Obsequious

14. Prejudice

15. Quantifiable

16. Relinquish

17. Superlative

18. Trigonometry

19. Utopian

20. Vindictive

21. Whimsical

22. Xerophyte

23. Youthful

24. Zenith

25. Zucchini

If some of the words seem unfamiliar, get the child to look up the definition, write it down in a notebook and write a sentence to confirm their understanding of that word.