Teachers, If you are using Spelling City and Vocabulary.co.il regularly in your classrooms, you may want also include the features of these sites in your homework assignments as well. Here are a few creative ideas for integrating the games and activities on these sites into your home-based assignments: Embed individual Spelling City lists into your [...]

Triple A Words.  Have you ever thought about them?  In my opinion, they are often some of the most difficult words to spell.  Probably because they don’t always follow traditional rules of English (which are hardly traditional, and made to be broken, it would seem). But words with three A’s in them are some of [...]

If you already use SpellingCity as a tool with your students or children, then I’m preaching to the choir, but if you don’t…you should definitely check it out! SpellingCity is a free spelling practice program online that lets you input your own lists, or use ones already on the site.  Then students can practice their [...]

If you ask my youngest son, spelling tests are far, far scarier than anything that Hollywood’s best horror writers can dish out.  A couple of years ago, I could track the onset of his chronic stomach aches to the exact moment the next spelling or vocabulary test was announced.  Having struggled with phonics his whole [...]