Spelling Bee - Power Up your Spelling.
Superpowers with the ICAS Spelling Bee!
Show Off Your Spelling Superpowers with the ICAS Spelling Bee!
The ICAS Spelling Bee is more than just a competition — it’s a stepping stone in a student’s literacy journey, supporting growth from the formative years through to Year 10. Spelling plays a vital role in developing strong reading and writing skills, expanding vocabulary, and fostering clear, confident communication. These foundational abilities are essential not only in the classroom but throughout life.
As students progress through school, the ICAS Spelling Bee offers age-appropriate challenges that grow with them. It’s an exciting way to build academic confidence, celebrate language, and develop lifelong skills in a fun, engaging format. Whether students are just beginning to explore words or preparing for their future careers, this competition helps them shine — one letter at a time
Skills Assessed in the ICAS Spelling Bee
Dictation
ICAS Spelling Bee tests a variety of different kinds of words organised by the four types of spelling knowledge. Within each type, Spelling Bee test papers will contain some words that are easy to spell for students at the year level, some that are of medium difficulty and some that are quite challenging. Some examples of the range of difficulty of words tested include:
- grammatical words (e.g. that, above, themselves)
- homophones and commonly confused words (e.g. past/passed, quite/quiet, stationary/stationery)
- vowel/consonant trigraphs (e.g. pair, frighten, courageous)
- confusion between single and double consonants (e.g. happy, disease, accommodation)
- adding multiple affixes (e.g. unkindly, usefully, insignificance)
- foreign words (e.g. pizza, garage, bazaar).
Please note that the ICAS Spelling Bee assessment requires earphones and the Janison Replay application.
