The UDL Educational Technology Guide 2019-2020: Technology for Special Education

John F. O'Sullivan

Section 19 Learn to Spelling

 

There are a number of ways to teach spelling. I want to make a few suggestions. When you are teaching spelling to young children, you have to teach phonics and the parts of a word. You can find lists of the most commonly used 100 words. Every child should know how to spell all of those words. Memorizing letters within a word can be a mundane task. Anytime that you find a way to make this task more interesting or better target common words that is a win. I recommend looking at the options below. 


Scholar - Spelling Bee Quiz

This app teaches you to spell commonly misspelled words. It gets into similar words. The ratings are excellent and well deserved. This is a difficult subject to address. This app will help you improve your spelling if you take the time to use it.  

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scholar-spelling-bee-quiz/id1308540467


Spelling Training

This website allows you to make a list of spelling words or import one to study. This is a nice twist to the traditional way of learning spelling. 

https://www.spellingtraining.com/


Spelling Notebook

You can create a list of spelling words to practice. This app helps teach spelling.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spelling-notebook/id461225509?mt=8


Simplex Spelling Phonics - Rhyming With CVC Words

This is a very good spelling app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simplex-spelling-phonics-rhyming/id580762950?mt=8&ign- 

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Website: http://www.pyxwise.com/ssphonicscvc.html 


Little Stars - Word Wizard

This is a highly rated game that teaches spelling. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-stars-word-wizard/id521736568?mt=8


Wonster Words Learning

This app teaches phonics and spelling. The app also gets great reviews.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wonster-words-learning/id881119321


Ultimate English Spelling Quiz

Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.damtechdesigns.quiz.spelling&hl=en 

Windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/ultimate-english-spelling-quiz/9nblggh1r9ns 

 

American Wordspeller

Instead of looking a word up in the dictionary, you can use this app. Spelling rules do not apply. You can spell a word phonetically, and the app can find it. This is an app for those with poor spelling that needs to look up a word.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-wordspeller/id397617771?mt=8 


Spell Board

This app creates fun activities to help you learn custom spelling lists.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spellboard/id390290951?mt=8 

Website: http://www.palasoftware.com/SpellBoard.html 


YouTube.com

You can find videos of the most common 100 words and countless videos on phonics. When I show videos to students, they just focus or listen better. As much as I want to think of myself as being interesting YouTube.com tends to be more engaging interesting to my students.

https://www.youtube.com/




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