Spellzone is non-patronising, and is adaptable for all abilities including those with dyslexia.
Keep students on track with little intervention.
Students can improve their spelling as the Spellzone course teaches all the English spelling rules in a logical order, with clear explanations at each stage. This enables students to work independently in school, in their own homes or on the go.
Teachers have found that the ability to use Spellzone at home reinforces learning and makes it popular with parents who are keen to support their son or daughter's school work.
Evaluate your students' spelling ability and provide individual learning pathways.
The Spelling Ability Test provides a baseline Spellzone Score and creates a personal Course Pathway for each student based on their result.
Course Pathways may comprise of Spellzone Starter and Main Course units. All work is checked instantly and the Spellzone Scores and Course Pathways are updated according to progress made.
Comprehensive teaching in all English spelling rules.
The Spellzone Starter Course is an entry level resource provided to help learners including primary pupils, older students who are still struggling with basic spelling concepts, and lower level users of English such as EAL and ESOL students.
The Spellzone Main Course units assume that users that can spell phonically simple words with short vowel sounds and hard consonants (for example, run, sit, stand, jump).
The Spellzone courses follow a logical pattern and all teaching points are clearly explained; where a spelling rule exists, the course teaches it and where there are no rules to help, we give ideas for learning and remembering difficult words.
Many users find that Spellzone helps their pronunciation as well as their spelling, because the words are grouped by their sound, for example:
Ready-made resources to save you time.
There are 1000s of pre-loaded word lists available to save you time including Spellzone course, user-created and curriculum lists. All can be used as they are or adapted to your specific needs.
Create custom spelling lists for your subject or project
You can create your own simple or very technical word lists to help your students to improve their spelling in your subject, exam preparation or projects.
ALL word lists can be used with interactive spelling tests, spelling activities and games, printed as worksheets and translated into 92 languages - useful for ESL learners.
Free resources
Spellzone classroom resources are free to download. You can use them on your school website and share them with your colleagues.
Plan and set classroom and homework tasks in advance
All Spellzone course units and word lists can quickly be set as classroom or homework tasks.
Start dates and deadlines can be set in advance enabling multi-task setting.
Demonstrate results and provide reports on students' progress
All student activity, level of engagement and results can be monitored and evaluated for assessment purposes. Reports can be download at any time.
Use Spellzone across year groups and departments
Spellzone can be used in all school departments and can be easily managed by teaching assistants as no previous experience of teaching English spelling is required. Students can be placed into multiple classes and classes can be assigned to multiple members of staff.
All staff can create word lists for their subject, project or exam preparation and set these as classroom or homework tasks for the whole class or individual students.
Who uses Spellzone?
Spellzone is widely used in:
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Further information
For more detailed information on the Spellzone teaching content please see: Questions and answers for teachers and tutors.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for our students! I'm sure Spellzone will be invaluable in helping them to improve their spellings and therefore improve the quality of their writing in all subject areas!"
Teacher, High School, UK