Spelling City

The students in my class were using this website, www.spellingcity.com. I found this website to be a great study tool for the students, especially ELL. The user first types in the words and the computer generates the list. You can have the words pronounced and used in sentence. Then their are test at the end and games for the students to play. I think that many times ELL students have a hard time with spelling test because their parents may not know how to say the word in English. I see this in my class with my ELL student. After using this website daily, he is starting to improve on his test because he can hear the words being pronounced when he is studying/learning them at their house.

The game are ones that I found my students enjoying to play. My CT has added this website to their weekly studying of the words and I have found that the students respond very well. They are always excited when it's spelling city time. Compared to how they hate doing their worksheets about the words. I have also seen my students with ADHD focusing more during spelling time and then turning around and increasing their grades.

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