I recently responded to a question on the SMART Exchange Forum in reference to good Spelling resources for your SMARTBoard. Since I found myself playing around with SpellingCity for half an hour, I thought it earned it's own blog post.
The SpellingCity site lets teachers easily create their own spelling lists and then students can practice improving their spelling skills online. Here's the description of SpellingCity found on their website:
SpellingCity is a new and innovative interactive educational site that
can help children of all ages improve their spelling skills and expand
their vocabulary. It can also be used by teachers and parents to teach
their students how to spell properly with their own spelling lists.
It's really a remarkable website and the spelling games work extremely well with the SMART Board. While the "Teach" and "Test" areas require the use of a keyboard, the games (with the exception of one) do not and they are very Smartboard friendly!
Even if you're a teacher who doesn't teach Spelling, this is a great site to use to introduce concept words. Please pass this resource along to your fellow teachers, it's a winner!
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Ditto! I love Spelling City also and agree it is a definite winner!
What an awesome site. I wish I had my lists right here to add for the year! I teach with 3 other 2nd grade teachers and I run and prepare(make worksheets) the Spelling Lists for each week – I totally plan on adding this to our weekly lesson! It’s a great thing for kids to do at home or on the computer while I am with guided reading groups.Thanks!
Hi, The Mayor of SpellingCity.com here. I visited a school with Smart Boards a few months ago. They convinced me that our games had to have a full screen option so that they would look great projected on the SmartBoards. We’ve now revised all the games that we can so that they go full screen. In addition, ALL of the games work with mouse clicks and drag n drop now. Lastly, we’ve added some new games so stop by again and see if some of them deserve a new write-up. For instance, our Alphabetize game and MatchIt games are great:
http://www.spellingcity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1135
http://www.spellingcity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1137
Soon, we should have out a killer classroom spelling bee game too.