SpellingCity

Vocabulary Spelling City is designed to support students learning to spell words and use them in sentences. Before using the app, teachers and students should login to the app’s accompanying website (www.spellingcity.com/) and register. Then, when they first login to this app, students and teachers are presented with sample word lists and games, which can be used in elementary, middle, and high schools. Although the word lists are categorized into different topics (e.g., Colors, Sound-Alikes, Space, Largest US States, and SAT Words), the game options stay the same and include games such as Sentence Unscramble, Audio Word Match, and Test-N-Teach, among others. Each game is designed for users to engage words in a different format. Also, by registering on the website, teachers can create their own word lists, and Vocabulary Spelling City will automatically create the games to accompany their list, which are then immediately accessible on the Vocabulary Spelling City app for students.

Instructional Ideas

1. Teachers can add their weekly spelling words to this app’s companion website, which allows students to access the words on the app and complete the different games that use the words. This will allow students to study their spelling words.
2. Teachers can create a “Word Tree” group of words with this app and its companion website. That way, as students come across unfamiliar words when reading a text, they can jot the words down on a piece of paper and hand it to their teacher. Their teacher, in turn, can add the words to the “Word Tree” list. Students can then engage these words using the app’s games during pockets of class time.
3. In preparation for a school-wide spelling bee, teachers can upload potential spelling words to the app’s companion website and allow students to practice their spelling of these words in preparation for the upcoming spelling bee.

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