Word Tower

Spelling and vocabulary test prep

Turn this week's spelling list into a game — and a printable practice testVocabulary games for kids, ages 4–12

The school sends a column of words. Paste it into Word Tower, set the test date, and the list becomes a tower your child climbs — every word met before the test — and practice sheets you print at home, ending in a home test you can give before the school test.

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No ads. No sign-up. Progress stays on your device.

The hero stands on a ledge of the brick tower before three doors marked house, apple and book; a picture of an apple above says which word to find. A printed practice sheet titled Word practice: each word to look at, trace along a dotted line and write four times.

Seven steps

How test prep works

From the column of words the school sends home, to the morning of the test.

  1. The list comes home

    Ten words on a sheet in the school bag, or a photo of the board — and a date by which they have to be known.

  2. Paste it into 🎯 Test prep

    A plain list, a table, or “word - translation” lines go straight in. If all you have is a photo of the sheet, a ready request for ChatGPT turns it into words and draws a picture for each.

    The Test prep tab with the ten pasted words: one already has a picture from the library, the others are waiting for theirs.

  3. Set the test date

    The game counts back from it and spreads the new words, so every one is met before the test and familiar words turn into spelling practice.

  4. The child climbs the tower

    The words on the doors are this week's words. A poster shows the word and speaks it; the right door turns the tower to the next ledge, a wrong one stays shut and the word comes back later.

    The tower by the sea with three doors, each carrying a word, and the child in the yellow raincoat on the ledge.

  5. Watch the colours

    Blue for shown, orange for learning, yellow for familiar, green for mastered. Hard words stand out on their own, and the days left before the test are counted for you.

    The parents' page: the test date with the days left, what each colour means, hard words, and every word with its colour.

  6. Print the practice sheets

    “Practice sheets + home test” on the parents’ page turns the same words into paper: look at the word, trace it along the dotted line, then write it four times, with a letter guide at the top.

    A printed practice sheet titled Word practice, with columns to look at each word, trace it and write it four times.

  7. Give the home test

    The last printed pages are the test itself: “Home test”, numbered empty lines for the child, and “How to give the home test” for you, with the same words in a shuffled order to read aloud and tick.

    Two printed pages side by side: numbered empty lines for the child, and the parent's page listing the words in a shuffled order with a tick column.

The child goes to school prepared. Words that were hard come back sooner, words they know return less often, and every tower is built anew.

Beyond the test

What else it does

  • Everyday English words

    Sets of the 10, 50 and 100 most useful words, with pictures, for a first English vocabulary.

  • Sight words to learn to read

    The Dolch lists and the first 300 Fry words. The word is heard, and the child finds how it is written.

  • A page for parents

    See which words are new, learning, familiar or mastered, which ones were hard, and how many days are left before the test.

  • Several children, six languages

    Each child keeps their own words and progress. The game speaks to families in English, French, German, Russian and two kinds of Spanish (Spain and Latin America); outside English, a translation hint helps children who learn English as a new language.

Calm by design

  • The challenge is the words, not the controls: no timers, no jumps to time, gaps are hopped automatically.
  • Walk with the arrow keys, or with big on-screen buttons on a tablet or phone.
  • Falling off a ledge costs nothing — a little submarine brings the hero back to climb again.
  • No ads, no purchases, no tracking. Nothing to sign up for.
The game on a phone: the tower rises out of the sea, with the word banners over the doors and three big arrow buttons — left, up and right — below the screen.

Chrome

In Chrome's side panel, next to homework

The same game runs in Chrome's side panel: one click on the toolbar icon, a tower beside the homework tab, then back to work.

Before you start

Questions parents ask

Does my child need an account?

No. The game works without signing up. Progress stays in the browser on your device.

Can I use our school spelling list?

Yes. Paste the list in Test prep — a plain list, a table or “word - translation” lines — and set the test date. The game spreads the new words so each one is met before the test, and you print practice sheets with a home test at the end.

Which sight word lists are included?

The Dolch lists (Pre-Primer, Primer, grades 1 to 3 and nouns) and the first 300 Fry words.

Can we practise on paper too?

Yes. Print a one-page word list for the fridge, or practice sheets where each word is read, traced along a dotted line and written four times — with a home test on the last page: empty lines for your child and a page for you with the words to read aloud.

Does the game have ads?

No. There are no ads, no in-game purchases and no tracking.

Is it hard to control?

No. The hero walks with the arrow keys or on-screen buttons and hops gaps by itself. The only challenge is remembering the words.

Climb the first tower