Word Labs is a browser-based structured literacy platform for Years 2–6, built by a practising NSW primary teacher. It gives your students 13 evidence-based activities across phonics, morphology and spelling, and your teachers a real-time dashboard plus 321 ready-to-project teaching slide decks — all aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus.
Students practise. Teachers teach, monitor, and intervene. Same data flows between them in real time — no exports, no extra admin.
Students practise phonological, orthographic, and morphological knowledge through 13 gamified activities — Morpheme Builder, Breakdown Blitz, Phoneme Splitter, Syllable Splitter, Sound Sorter, Meaning Match-Up, Mission Mode, Root Lab, Word Spectrum, The Refinery, Homophone Hunter, Flashcards, and Speed Builder. Each activity targets a specific skill that transfers directly to spelling accuracy and reading comprehension.
See the full activity list →
A real-time dashboard with accuracy heatmaps, intervention flags, and individual student profiles. 321 ready-to-project teaching slide decks, 9 printable worksheet generators, per-student differentiation (Extension, Support, Low-stim, and EALD modes across 48 languages), and a Spelling Check-In dictation tool — all designed to fit into a single structured spelling block.
These are 3 of 321 teaching decks. Sign in for the full library plus 9 worksheet generators.
Word Labs is designed by a practising NSW primary teacher to meet the compliance, data sovereignty, and syllabus alignment requirements of Australian primary schools.
All student data is stored in Australia, in Supabase's Sydney data centre (ap-southeast-2). No student data ever leaves the country. Privacy Act 1988 compliant, aligned to the Australian Privacy Principles and the NSW PPIP Act.
Directly mapped to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus Stage 2 and Stage 3 spelling outcomes, the Australian Curriculum v9.0, and the NSW Literacy Continuum. Built around explicit instruction and structured literacy research.
Word Labs is designed, built, and maintained by Nicholas Deeney, a practising NSW public primary school teacher. Not a retrofit of a commercial product — every activity reflects what works in a real classroom.
Everything your IT and leadership teams need to review Word Labs — seven compliance documents bundled into one ZIP.
📦 Download the pack (ZIP, ~2.2 MB)Or download individually: Data Handling Agreement Security Architecture Incident Response Plan Privacy Policy Terms of Service Parent Privacy Summary Teacher Guide
Individual teachers get free access during our early adoption program. Whole-school pricing is quoted per school so you only pay for what you need.
Individual teacher
For teachers who want to try Word Labs in their own classroom.
Whole school
For schools that want dashboard access for every teacher and pay via one invoice.