NZCER Spelling Lists
Spelling List 1
a / I / it / the / wasand / in / my / to / we
Spelling List 2
at / had / of / that / upbut / he / on / then / went
for / is / she / there / when
got / me / so / they / you
Spelling List 3
about / be / go / into / ourafter / because / going / just / out
all / came / have / like / said
are / day / her / mum / some
as / down / his / not / were
back / get / home / one / with
Spelling List 4
again / do / next / people / timean / first / night / put / took
around / food / no / ran / two
big / from / now / saw / us
by / good / off / school / very
can / has / old / see / what
come / him / only / started / well
could / house / or / their / will
dad / if / other / them / would
did / little / over / this / your
Spelling List 5
am / door / last / once / throughanother / everyone / left / play / told
away / family / long / really / too
bed / five / looked / room / walked
been / found / made / something / want
before / friend / man / still / way
best / fun / more / thing / where
brother / heard / morning / think / which
called / here / name / thought / who
car / know / never / three / year
Spelling List 6
also / cool / eyes / head / jumpalways / dark / fell / hit / knew
asked / decided / felt / how / later
black / dog / find / inside / life
boy / eat / four / it’s / live
bus / end / gave / its / lot
cat / even / getting / I’ll / lunch
coming / every / great / I’m / make
minutes / place / sister / top / water
most / ready / sleep / town / while
much / ride / suddenly / tree / why
nice / right / take / turned / window
opened / run / tell / until / woke
outside / say / ten / wanted / yes
Spelling List 7
any / each / ground / money / soonbaby / ever / guard / mother / stay
bad / everything / hand / myself / stop
ball / face / happened / new / swimming
being / fast / happy / parents / tea
bit / father / help / picked / than
boat / few / hole / playing / tried
bought / finally / hot / presents / under
camp / finished / hour / road / wait
dead / game / let / side / work
died / girl / look / small / won
doing / gone / many / sometimes / world
HNS Spelling List 8
aloud / eight / interesting / read / stoppedanimals / engine / January / remember / summer
August / escape / judge / round / sure
autumn / exercise / jumped / safety / surprise
better / February / light / sailor / then
book / film / marae / sat / these
calendar / first / men / Saturday / tired
caught / give / might / scissors / today
children / half / Mr / Mrs / sea / usually
destroy / hear / must / should / weekend
city / hoping / peace / since / writing
diary / hungry / piece / spring / yesterday
HNS Spelling List 9
allowed / dictionary / friends / nearly / they’reAtlantic / didn’t / front / New Zealand / threw
Auckland / different / fruit / Pacific / tomorrow
Australia / disappeared / grabbed / Police / video
awhile / doesn’t / Hamilton / present / wasn’t
believe / dollars / having / probably / watch
breakfast / don’t / holidays / quiet / we’re
brought / English / hopped / scared / weight
cannon / everybody / hospital / second / Wellington
caught / everyday / instead / sincerely / weren’t
centre / everywhere / language / someone / whole
chocolate / excited / lightning / special / won’t
clothes / favourite / luckily / stopped / wonderful
couldn’t / field / minute / straight / you’re
HNS Spelling List 10
addition / country / fraction / landscape / promiseadventure / courage / garage / lawyer / protection
alphabet / cultivate / geography / manage / representative
Antarctica / decided / government / material / route
attack / defence / grammar / minister / secret
barrier / democracy / graph / ministry / senior
beautiful / disappear / honour / natural / separate
capital / edge / imagination / nature / separating
central / education / imagine / neighbour / stomach
climate / election / instruction / paragraph / subtraction
compare / encourage / journey / Parliament / technical
compete / enrichment / juice / passenger / technology
computer / environment / junior / path / vegetation
construction / experience / justice / position / wholesale
Extension List 1
acceptance / conductor / future / observe / scheduleache / consequence / guitar / opportunity / scheme
agreement / continent / horizon / opposition / serious
analysis / council / illustrate / organisation / settlement
application / court / immediately / permanent / similar
ascend / criticise / inspiration / photograph / social
associate / criticism / instructor / physical / source
association / cultural / intelligent / pieces / strategy
atmosphere / curious / introduce / poverty / success
audience / definite / introduction / precious / successful
automatic / delicious / knowledge / principal / suitable
brilliant / descend / major / principle / surgery
business / dissolve / majority / problem / surround
campaign / ethnic / manageable / quality / thoughtful
celebrate / existence / manufacture / quantity / thoughtfulness
certificate / experiment / Maori / receipt / tough
circular / extensive / moisture / receive / traffic
coalition / extraordinary / motivation / recognise / trouble
compliment / foreign / navigate / reign / university
conclusion / forty / observation / responsibility / wealth