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Terms and year groups follow the National Curriculum in England: English programmes of study (Appendix 1 spelling, including the statutory word lists; Appendix 2 vocabulary, grammar and punctuation). Reading questions follow the content domains and question styles of the Standards and Testing Agency’s key stage 1 and key stage 2 English reading test frameworks.

Word classes are labelled automatically and a few will be wrong. Treat the mistakes as a discussion point. This page uses no AI: everything is worked out by rules and word lists built into the page.

Meanings and word histories come from a dictionary built into the page, made from Simple English Wiktionary and Wiktionary using data from kaikki.org, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Rare words that aren’t built in can be looked up online when the page is on a website; only that single word is sent, never the text.

The pure phonics sounds were made in advance with the free Piper speech engine and its British “Cori” voice, which was trained on public-domain LibriVox recordings. They are computer-made, so check them against your phonics scheme.