Vocabulary and Spelling City.com
Target Audience: K-12
Link: http://www.spellingcity.com/
Spelling City was suggested by a number of Utah Coalition for
Educational Technology members as a great site to help children
practice their spelling. To begin, you enter each spelling word, pressing the ENTER or RETURN key after each. If you have more than five words to practice, just press RETURN after the last word, and a new space will appear. If you misspell a word, the program will tell you when you press the test me button, at which time you can re-enter the word correctly.
Pressing the test me button will take you to a test. There’s a
blank for every spelling word, followed by two buttons - say it -
and sentence. Clicking the say it button says the word out loud (turn up the volume on your computer!). Clicking the sentence button uses that word in a complete sentence. Then you type that spelling word in the blank. When you’ve completed the test, the site will show you which ones you missed, and how to spell them correctly. It also lets you print a results page (which the student can hand in to the teacher), and a certificate. Clicking the teach me button lets you go through each word, and the computer will say the word, spell it (both visually and out loud), use it in a sentence, and then say the word again.
Play a game let’s you play a number of different games with your spelling words, including Word Search, Match It!, Hang Mouse, Alphabetize, Unscramble, Audio Word Match, Which Word?, Missing Letter, Sentence Unscramble, and Crossword. It’s like having a substitute teacher helping you with your spelling!
Spelling City was suggested by a number of Utah Coalition for
Educational Technology members as a great site to help children
practice their spelling. To begin, you enter each spelling word, pressing the ENTER or RETURN key after each. If you have more than five words to practice, just press RETURN after the last word, and a new space will appear. If you misspell a word, the program will tell you when you press the test me button, at which time you can re-enter the word correctly.
Pressing the test me button will take you to a test. There’s a
blank for every spelling word, followed by two buttons - say it -
and sentence. Clicking the say it button says the word out loud (turn up the volume on your computer!). Clicking the sentence button uses that word in a complete sentence. Then you type that spelling word in the blank. When you’ve completed the test, the site will show you which ones you missed, and how to spell them correctly. It also lets you print a results page (which the student can hand in to the teacher), and a certificate. Clicking the teach me button lets you go through each word, and the computer will say the word, spell it (both visually and out loud), use it in a sentence, and then say the word again.
Play a game let’s you play a number of different games with your spelling words, including Word Search, Match It!, Hang Mouse, Alphabetize, Unscramble, Audio Word Match, Which Word?, Missing Letter, Sentence Unscramble, and Crossword. It’s like having a substitute teacher helping you with your spelling!
This page last updated May 15, 2018