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"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."

"An online tool for practising spelling patterns for primary pupils. Spellings are arranged in over 60 categories."

"Truespel is the World's first "pronunciation guide spelling system" based American English, the world's most important language." Hem, cough.

Free Dictionary is an online English Dictionary that gives you English definitions, synonyms, pronunciation, spelling and more. Free dictionary has Auto Suggestion and Auto Spell Check technology.

Online spelling games for English

This is a great site! Thanks for sharing :)

A fun spelling game where the player has to make words using the letter blocks. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Fun Chrome experiment where users listen to a word and then type or say to input the letters. Three difficulty levels available.

"The teaching of grammar has changed completely in a generation. While formal teaching of spelling and punctuation have been a mainstay of the classroom, just a few decades ago there was very little teaching of grammar. Many pupils formally encountered grammar through the study of other languages. Now SPaG takes up a large part of the primary curriculum, but have secondary colleagues noticed a difference? In this session we are discussion how to improve SPaG skills and usage at all levels of schooling and beyond."

This is a comprehensive flash card study aid site. Make your flashcards to study anything. Add pictures, text and it supports a range of non-alphabetical languages like Chinese and Japanese. You can choose to learn, spell things, test yourself or play games with the information. Browse thousands of sets made by other users without signing in. A free account is required to make your own flashcards. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

grammar and spelling rules, software can also be used off line, links to dictionay, synonyms and translations

A good MFL spelling game. Find as many French, German, Spanish or English words as you can using the 6 letters you are given. Sign in to track progress or press the 'visit' button to just play the games. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects

"Dyslexia is a learning difficulty which affects the ability to adopt the automatic reflexes needed to read and write. Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems encountered by individuals with dyslexia when they read. Little attention, however, has been paid to the mechanisms involved in writing. Sonia Kandel, Professor at the GIPSA-Lab of the Université Grenoble Alpes (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes/Grenoble INP) and her team [1] decided to look at the purely motor aspects of writing in children diagnosed with dyslexia. Their results show that orthographic processing in children with dyslexia is so laborious that it can modify or impair writing skills, despite the absence of dysgraphia in these children. The findings of this study are published in the November 2017 edition of Cognitive Neuropsychology."

This is a site full of fun ESL games to practise and improve English skills. Games including Hangman and a Spelling Bee and there are lots of topics to choose from. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language