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Dec. 11, 2008

Great Spelling Website & It's FREE!

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Learn to spell it right at Spelling City!

I just ran across a really great site called SpellingCity.com over at Pioneer Woman's blog and spent the last half hour playing around with it and I am really impressed! Right away when you hit their homepage it lets you enter in your child's spelling words and from there you can let it test them. The program actually 'says' the word out loud for them and there is also the option of having the word used in a sentence. Once the test is complete they then have the option to have it teach them any misspelled words or use all of them in some fun learning games :) The beauty of this site is that it is completely FREE and you can create a free teacher's account where you can create your own word lists and save them so that each time you use the site your word lists are ready to go. If you don't have lists that you are using for spelling already there is also a handy page just chock full of spelling lists for grades 1-7 that you can use and there's even a forum if you want to ask for spelling help :)

UPDATE: We have now been using this site for a couple of weeks and it is a big hit with K! He no longer whines about spelling tests and happily types away at the keyboard :) There is just something more fun about typing instead of handwriting *grin*. I love that I can let him go at it by himself now and can carry on teaching L instead of spending an hour coaxing him into completing each word list! A bonus for both of us :)

Go check it out! You won't be disappointed.

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Jan. 10, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Molytail

I've looked at that site before - it *is* pretty cool. We've tried a few formal spelling programs (like megawords) and they didn't work very well....might give this a try!

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