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| doorwayonline.org.uk/doorwayspeller.html | A spelling tool for younger children. Although, you cannot add your own lists which makes the tool limited for classroom use. |
| spellingcity.com | A superb resource where teachers can sign in and input spelling lists for pupils to learn by playing games. Give pupils the link and they don’t need to sign in to use it. Site only recognises US spelling when generating example sentences, but you can input your own easily. Free option should be enough for most users, but ‘paid for’ option is available. |
| amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html | A lovely flash based resource to help with learning spellings by testing ten words by look/cover/check. It has word banks, but you can also input your own which makes this really useful. |
| spinandspell.com | An interesting spelling game for younger children where you spin a wheel to spell the name of an object. |
| mrthorne.com | A set of great phonics videos and other resources can be found at Mr Thorne Does Phonics. A great resource for Early Years and KS1. |
| theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling | A fun poster about common incorrect spelling. And if you ever wanted to see a panda vomit – here’s your chance! |
| timesspellingbee.co.uk/Training/SpellingBee.aspx | Spelling Bee is a well designed resource from the Times Newspaper (UK) for students from Key Stages 1-4. Practises spelling and has real time spelling competitions. The free sign up is not required to play the games, but opens up more features it you are logged in. |
| quizicon.com/100-Most-Common-English-Words-Quiz.html | A quiz where you type in the words which you think are the 100 most common English words. |
| letters-and-sounds.com | A great phonics site with lots of resources, games and ideas to use with your class. |
| teacherled.com/resources/wordcirc/wordcircload.html | A good spelling/logical thinking whiteboard resource where you have to spell a word with the letters you are given. |
| worldspellingday.com | A great yearly event to promote spelling in your school. Games and website are brilliant. A must try site. |
| csfsoftware.co.uk/Letters/WordsGame.exe | Download a great piece of software based on the numbers game from TV’s Countdown. |
| wordia.com | Wordia is a great project where lots of famous people and members of the community upload videos about a word. These include British politician, Nick Clegg and writer, Michael Rosen. Great for building vocabulary. |
| bigbrownbear.co.uk/magneticletters | An online magnetic letters board with big letters and buttons for young learners and an easy to interface. |
| joytube.com/wordy | A fun spelling game where the player has to make words using the letter blocks. |
| joytube.com/word-craze | A spelling game where players are given one letter and the blanks and they must find as many words as they can. |
| joytube.com/chain-letters | A great spelling game where players try to make as many words as possible with adjacent letters. |
| abcya.com/letter_blocks.htm | A great game where players must spell words from the block letters. |
| vocabgenii.com | A great, simple game for building English vocabulary. Players are given a definition and jumbled letters of a word. |
| smashcards.com | An exciting site currently in beta with augmented reality phonic flash card. |
| manythings.org/vocabulary/games/h | A nice collection of WordWeb games where player must spell out an unknown word from the letters in the web. |
| testyourvocab.com | A superb site that tests and improves your English vocabulary. Tick the words that you know a definition of. A fantastic tool for both native English speakers and EAL/ESL students. |
| ictgames.com/highFreq/index.html | A high frequency English word bingo game with a multi-levelled word generator and ready made bingo cards for you to print. Great for young and ESL/EAL students. |
| newswordy.com | A useful resource for older students that takes interesting words from the news and gives a definition and extracts from news sites and Twitter. |
| wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html | A simple site which finds anagrams. Just enter a word to search for a suitable anagram. Useful for clues and spelling practice. |
| phrays.com | Learn the meaning of a new English word every day and know how to use it with the simple site. |
| whatsthisword.com | A useful English and spelling site for finding missing letters in words. Enter the letters you know and question marks for those you don’t. A great resource for making word games. |
| dynamo.dictionary.com | A superb English vocabulary site from the makers of Dictionary.com. Test your knowledge of words and their meanings to build your word power. The site also has levelled sections and resources for learning French, Spanish and Latin. |
| slimekids.com/games/spelling-games/spellingfiles/alphabots.swf | A flash spelling game where players need to run around a 3D environment collecting letters to spell a word. |
| slimekids.com/games/vocabulary-games/vocabularyfiles/dob.swf | This is a fun spelling game for younger students. Jump around this platform game collecting letters in the correct order to spell words. |
| readingbear.org | A well made site for teaching young learners phonics through interactive video presentations. |
| readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/puzzlemewords/puzzlemewords.swf | A good English spelling puzzle where players are given an object to try to spell. The game has two difficulty levels. |
| spellathon.net | A superb site for a global spelling event where player can practise their spelling and compete against others from around the world. |
| slimekids.com/games/spelling-games/spellingfiles/before.swf | A good flash-based ‘guess the letters’ game where players have one minute and three wrong guesses to figure out the words. |
| www5.scholastic.co.uk/static/mgm/mgm2.swf | A well designed flash spelling challenge. In round one players must identify the correct spelling. In round two they must choice the wrong spelling and gain a bonus if they can spell it correctly. |
| slimekids.com/games/spelling-games/spellingfiles/whizz.swf | A good spelling game where players find words from a collection of letters. |
| visualthesaurus.com/bee/play | A spelling game for older students. Listen to the audio and spell. |
| missmaggie.org/scholastic/fishemup2_eng_launcher.html | Go fishing for correct spelling with this good spelling game. USe your fishing rod to choose the correct word. |
| kerpoof.com/#/activity/abc | A wonderful picture site where designers must spell the items they want to include in their picture. If you can’t spell it, you can’t have it! |
| storm-games.com/files/puzzle&board/wordbump.swf | A fun word game where players must move three letters to the top of the screen by using the letters above to spell words. |
| smarttutor.com/home/lessons/Vocab_PrefixSuffix_L3_V1_T3a.swf | A game where players choose the correct prefix or suffix for the word. |
| scholastic.com/kids/homework/flash/spelling.swf | Create word searches and word jumble puzzles with your class spelling words with this easy to use site. |
| muse.dillfrog.com/random_words | This is a superb random word generator split into nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Great for infusing a little magic into creative writing sessions. |
| progressivephonics.com | This site has a great set of downloadable PDF books and resources to help emergent readers with phonics. Free sign up is required. |
| bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/writing/vocabulary/play_popup.shtml | An interesting interactive resource from the BBC about the importance of using interesting vocabulary and adding ‘bling’ to writing. |
| playkidsgames.com/games/pinball/pinbal4.swf | A great pinball English word game. Collect the letters using your pinball skills developed from your misspent youth and guess the meaning of the word. |
| blog.oxforddictionaries.com/media/spelling-bee-2011 | A great spelling resource from the Oxford English Dictionary. Listen to words and try to spell them at three levels of difficulty. Choose between British and US spelling. |
| wordwars.clay.io | A fun HTML5 word game where players connect letters to spell words. Just enter a name in the bottom box to get started. |
| eslkidsworld.com/Interactive%20games/Grammar%20Games/Connectives/connectives%20quiz.swf | A simple connectives flash-based penalty shoot out game where players play against famous people from history and today. |
| wordcount.org/main.php | What are the commonly used words in English? See 86,000+ of the most used English words ranked in usage order with this great site. Use it to build vocabulary and find interesting words for writing. |
| teachyourmonstertoread.com | This is an amazing, beautifully made and entertaining site for young children to learn phonic sounds. Design a monster and take it on an adventure around a magic area to find the letter sounds and fix a spaceship. The storyline is good and the activities are educational and motivational. |
| cuddlydragon.com/wpb/my-spelling | An Android app for learning spellings. Input the words to be studies and then test & play games with them. If the school has a set scheme, you can import and save all the spelling lists from reception to year 6. Can also be used for MFL. |
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