Spelling Maestro listens with them, watches the patterns they miss, and brings the right words back at the right moment — until they can spell it, define it, AND use it.
Most spelling apps test once and forget. Spelling Maestro keeps a per-student box for every word, and only retires a word when your child has cleared three different layers of understanding.
Every word, sentence, and definition is pre-recorded with a calm Australian voice — slightly slower than normal speech so emerging readers can hear each phoneme clearly. Audio is delivered via CDN so the play button never makes them wait.
Words your child gets right move up a box and disappear for longer. Words they miss come back tomorrow. Each session blends 40% due-review, 30% struggling words, and 30% fresh words — so weak words always come back at the right moment without overwhelm.
Once a word is well-known, your child sees four sentences — only one uses the word correctly. The wrong ones bait classic homophone confusions (their/there, accept/except) and out-of-context misuse, taking your child past recognition and into confident application.
Every word follows the same five-step rhythm. The whole loop usually takes under a minute per word.
Tap play and hear the word in a clear Australian voice.
Type letter by letter into the slot inputs. Replay or grab a hint anytime.
See the word, syllables, IPA, definition, and an example sentence.
Once a word is well-known, pick the sentence that uses it correctly.
Write it on paper and try to use it in conversation. We track that too.
Each year band has its own curated word bank. Foundation–Year 6 leans on age-appropriate everyday English; Year 7–Year 12 introduces academic and VCE-grade vocabulary.
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Spelling Maestro is SubjectCoach's adaptive online spelling tool for Australian students from Foundation through Year 12. It uses a natural Australian voice (Charlotte) to dictate each word, accepts the spelling letter-by-letter, and adapts which words come back next based on a Leitner-style mastery box system.
Spelling Maestro currently covers more than 3,800 active spelling words across thirteen year bands (Foundation through Year 12). Each word includes a kid-friendly definition, an example sentence, a part-of-speech tag, four-option meaning multiple-choice distractors, and pre-recorded Australian-accent audio for the word, the example sentence, and the definition.
A regular spelling test only checks whether a child can write a word correctly once. Spelling Maestro tests three deeper layers: the spelling itself (Leitner box), the meaning of the word (multiple-choice quick check), and the usage of the word in a sentence (Mastery Blast Radius). A word only counts as fully mastered when a student passes all three layers.
The Mastery Blast Radius is a usage test that triggers automatically once a child has spelled a word correctly several times and passed the meaning multiple-choice question. The child sees four sentences that all use the word, but only one uses it correctly. It targets common misuses — homophone confusions like there/their and accept/except, plus wrong-context substitutions — so children move from recognition to confident application.
Each student's words sit in one of six Leitner boxes, with review intervals of 0, 1, 3, 7, 21, and 60 days. A correct first-try answer moves the word up one box; a wrong answer moves it down one. Each practice session draws roughly forty percent due review words, thirty percent struggling words, and thirty percent fresh words from the student's year band, so weak words come back at the right moment without overwhelming the child.
Spelling Maestro supports Foundation, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, and Year 12. Foundation through Year 6 vocabulary is age-appropriate everyday English (sight words, decodable words, common nouns and verbs); Year 7 through Year 12 introduces more sophisticated academic vocabulary suitable for VCE and equivalent senior-secondary study.
Yes. Tutors, parents, and schools can assign Spelling Maestro practice through the standard SubjectCoach assignments flow. Parents can also build their own custom spelling lists from words they choose. Every attempt, multiple-choice answer, and usage-test outcome is logged, so adults can see exactly which words a student knows, which they're struggling with, and which they've genuinely mastered.
Spelling Maestro plays audio at 95 percent of normal speed by default and slows further to 85 percent for retry attempts. Slightly slowed dictation gives a child enough time to hear each phoneme without making the audio sound unnatural — a published-research-backed sweet spot for emerging readers and English-as-additional-language learners.
Yes. Writing a newly-learned word on paper with its example sentence, then trying to use it in conversation the next day, is one of the strongest single boosts to long-term retention. Spelling Maestro nudges this behaviour after every Mastery Blast Radius success and shows a "Yesterday's Words" panel on the welcome screen so children can mark which words they've actually used in real life.
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