Play Word Garden
🌻 Garden 1 · 0 of 4 flowers
Tap letters to make a word, then tap Plant it.
Your word shows here
About This Game
A handful of letters, and every real word made from them grows a flower. Fill the garden to grow the next one. It is calm, there is no timer, and a hint is always there.
Top Tip
Look for short words first, then add a letter: rat, rats, star.
Skills You Are Practising
- Spelling
- Building words from letters
- Vocabulary
- Letter patterns
In the real world
Spotting words inside words helps with reading new, longer words.
For parents & teachers
- Ask what a word means once it is planted.
- Show how adding s or e changes a word: plan, plane, planes.
- Play together and take turns finding words.
Who it suits: Easy suits ages 6–8 with 4 letters. Medium suits ages 8–10 with 5 or 6 letters. Hard suits ages 10–12 with 7 or 8 letters.
Australian Curriculum v9.0
This game practises these content descriptions. Tap a code to see its full wording and other games for it.
- AC9EFLY13 (Foundation English) use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell words
- AC9E1LY13 (Year 1 English) spell one- and two-syllable words with common letter patterns
- AC9E2LY11 (Year 2 English) use knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to read and write words whose spelling is not completely predictable from their sounds, including high-frequency words
- AC9E3LY11 (Year 3 English) use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter) relationships and less common letter patterns to spell words
- AC9E4LY10 (Year 4 English) understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns, including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphological word families, common prefixes and suffixes, and word origins, to spell more complex words
- AC9E5LY09 (Year 5 English) build and spell new words from knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations
- AC9E6LY09 (Year 6 English) use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words