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SpellingCity.com has: - Over 42,000 spelling words and ten learning games! - A REAL person who says each word and sentence. - Free home pages for teachers and parents to save lists. - How To Videos to explain to teachers and parents how to use SpellingCity.com. - A free forum and newsletter with more vocabulary and spelling resources! - Ten spelling and vocabulary games to play online or to print. - Free printables for handwriting practice with your saved lists. - A Resources Section which highlights features and existing lists for Dolch words, compound words, sound-alikes (their, there, they're), contractions, possessives, and more. After taking the online spelling test, students can print out a report, retake the entire test, or get tested only on spelling words that they got wrong the first time. TeachMe spells and displays the word in ways that stimulate memory for visual and verbal learners. Printable Games include WordSearch, UnScramble, WhichWord?, Sentence UnScramble and MissingLetter. Printable Handwriting Worksheets for combined spelling and handwriting practice can be created from any saved list (this feature only works if the list is saved). Choices includes three sizes of lines, capitals or small letters, script or cursive, and with directional arrows on or off. How cool is that?

All you have to do is type in the list of words and bam! at least 10 games are generated for the students! It also teaches and tests the students on the words. You can save the lists as a teacher and have students search for your lists or you can have students input their own lists without saving them.

A superb resource where teachers can sign in and input spelling lists for pupils to learn by playing games. Give pupils the link and they don't need to sign in to use it. Site only recognises US spelling when generating example sentences, but you can input your own easily. Free option should be enough for most users, but 'paid for' option is available. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A great spelling resource from the Oxford English Dictionary. Listen to words and try to spell them at three levels of difficulty. Choose between British and US spelling. Play full screen at http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/media/spelling-bee-2011/SpellingContest.swf http://j.mp/HBnIw6 http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A well designed flash spelling challenge. In round one players must identify the correct spelling. In round two they must choice the wrong spelling and gain a bonus if they can spell it correctly. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

"A strategy to support pupils improve their spelling strategies, by circling words which they think require attention. The Standards & Testing Agency have in some ways made the marking of spellings more problematic than it's ever been. They state quite clearly, that individual spellings should no longer be pointed out to children if you wish to mark it as an independent piece. This, coupled with Ofsted's move away from heavy amounts of marking needing to be seen in books, could make the marking of spelling seem tricky."

Links to Reading Street Spelling and Vocabulary, MacMillan/McGraw Hill Spelling, Abeka Spelling, Harcourt Spelling, Essential Vocabulary, Journeys and Treasures, and Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary are also listed here.

One of the five components of The Daily Five is Word Work. Word Work is a time when students focus on spelling and vocabulary development, often using visual and kinesthetic methods. One of the activities students can do that is both visual and kinesthetic is Salt Dough Spelling.

A spelling game for older students. Listen to the audio and spell. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A good English spelling puzzle where players are given a object to try to spell. The game has two difficulty levels. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

An interesting spelling game for younger children where you spin a wheel to spell the name of an object. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A flash spelling game where players need to run around a 3D environment collecting letters to spell a word. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Free Grammar and Spell Checker Everywhere. Effortless. Seamless. It just works.

This is an intelligent spelling and grammar checker which sits in the background in Office and your browser until you need it. It constantly looks for examples of your sentence on the internet and decides whether it is correct and gives alternatives. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

To accommodate differences, Vocabulary and SpellingCity had added several lists of British spelling words and their corresponding US words.

Go fishing for correct spellings with this good spelling game. USe your fishing rod to choose the correct word. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A wonderful picture site where designers must spell the items they want to include in their picture. If you can't spell it, you can't have it! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A superb site for a global spelling event where player can practise their spelling and compete against others from around the world. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Includes a handy top 10 tips for teaching spelling

Never grade another spelling test again! Let SpellingCity do it for you!

A good crossword spelling game. Work out where the letters go in multiple positions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

This is a fun spelling game for younger students. Jump around this platform game collecting letters in the correct order to spell words. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Succinct, informative article by James Harbeck summarising six efforts to change English spelling. Range from the classicists of the Renaissance to the Chicago Tribune. Includes successful and unsuccesful changes, and traces several words back and forth.