Spelling app

[Newuser75]

Does anyone know if there is an app that you can get on your phone without paying a huge subscription where you can input your child's spellings? Thanks.

Spelling tutor has worked wonders for my kid

Spelling shed is very good

Write them out.
Less unneeded screen time, plus handwriting/formation practice.

They do write them out. I was just looking for another way to practice in addition. My kids actually have very little screen time so I'd be happy with 5 minutes on a spelling app every couple of days.
I kind of wish I'd never asked now 🙈

To all the folks being sarky about pen and paper, research has consistently shown that presenting spellings in a multi sensory way is far more effective than 'just writing them down on paper'.

Thank you!

Exactly. Plus for children with dyslexia, look-cover-write is notorious for not working.

my child thrives with spelling tutor because it allows her to learn spellings in the context of sentences, it also helps her reiterate her punctuation.

No! In my scheme, pen and paper is a reminder for the adult who calls out the word.
The child then spells it back out loud in a multi-sensory fashion.
Passes the time on car journeys too.

Obviously in addition to reading books.
The call and response method could be used for particularly problematic words.

There are many who would struggle with this because they don't have a good visual memory.

Then it is spelled out aurally for the child to repeat.

I guess if they can't connect the name of a letter to its shape on the page, there are deeper problems afoot.

That's why you need to engage all the senses, to encourage and develop the child's phonic knowledge.

Paper and pen??? Pfft. I insist on a slate a piece of chalk.

Well let's agree to disagree.

I am old and I recall the utter joy of everything pinging into place when I was about four. I even recall the story book I was reading at the time. I could not only read this story about King Midas, but in my head!

I suppose time will tell with the phonics experiment but I am regularly appalled (in a multi sensory way) by the utterly basic spelling errors Î see, hear (and yes, feel, as I grind my teeth ) all the time these days. Even from relatively well educated professionals.

It's just so very depressing.

As this is a thread about spelling... You practise your spelling, not practice (assuming you're in the UK).

Practice is the noun.

I hear you OP. I've wanted one of these because they can practice for a test and then get 20/20 and then ask them again 2 weeks later and they have forgotten them...so would use an app to build up their own dictionary and can tested on more and more of the words that they should know about. I have far better things that I can do with them than continuously test the spellings that they should know...but I am ok with saying 'go do 5 mins on the spelling app before we do X'.

However did we survive in a world without apps

Parents weren't that invested in their children's school work and you learned by rote when at school until you got it or the teacher threw something at you unlike today.

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Oh, it's just as well I don't do spelling tests anymore!

Squeebles is great. You can record the spoken word and then repeat it to help the child remember. For example “beautiful” “B. E. A. U. tiful”. My DC are dyslexic so breaking down the word or tips to remember the word were necessary.

My kid's school uses Emile which she loves. Not sure about home use though.