Comments on: What do you want?

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:17:12 +0000

In reply to Heather. Heather, This is a valid but controversial point. The systems for categorizing and portraying the phonemes or sounds in English are a topic of much debate. Some argue about how granular we should be in distinguishing sounds. Some argue that that 44 sounds is too few, it's really 51. The system we implemented is sort of a consensus view although I wouldn't won't to debate any of the details including your point which has relates in part to the treatment of R controlled vowels. It's always a judgement call. Our focus was on simplifying the portrayal of sound-letter correspondence, not on refining or even distilling what the categories of sounds are. I would love to return to focus on that. I would also love to work on machine recognition of those sounds and to give good feedback to young readers of whether they are correctly saying the sounds.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:58:06 +0000

I am noticing on the sound counter, you are putting sounds that should be separate together. For instance, in the word “your”, it is telling my k students it has 2 sounds when it has 3… /y/ /o/ /r/. The ou are saying the long o sound~ or is 2 sounds. The same with “for” , the sound counter is grouping the or as one sound when it is 2.

Thank you and sorry to be so picky!

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:07:39 +0000

I would like to be able to share my assignments from the site to my google classroom. Enabling that integration would help students navigate better and bring them right to correct assignment.

By: Kusuma Jampani

Kusuma Jampani — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:11:10 +0000

It would be great to add our own online dictionary as reference.
I am trying to make lists for my kids but most of the words are not available in spelling city. I have to manually add definition,parts of speech etc. from online dictionary like merriam webster etc.
Hop you can look into this

By: John

John — Sun, 26 May 2019 12:29:17 +0000

In reply to Tiffany. A teacher or parent when setting up a list, can create an original sentence. But it's not dicated, it must be typed in. We have thought about creating a spelling type dictation activity where an entire paragraph is read to the students and they have to type it in correctly. Personally, as the mayor of vocabularyspellingcity, I would love this since I learned this way. But them, I also want to build in diagramming sentences. But best practices these days are not in this direction so we have not provided it.

By: Mr. C

Mr. C — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:47:55 +0000

I would really like the option to remove some of the non-spelling related games (rhyme time especially) because they do not help with learning the actual spelling of the words.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:45:45 +0000

It would be great to be able to add a dictated sentences opportunity on our Spelling City Test Me assessments.

By: Lora

Lora — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 23:18:19 +0000

How can I print the graded spelling tests so that they are in alphabetical order? There is no order in how to print them. Please help!!!

By: John

John — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:19:23 +0000

In reply to Deidra Gibson.

Deirdre,
This is both a free version of VocabularySpellingCity and a Premium or paid version.
The free version is ample if you just want to work on your students’ spelling and use the test and about 8 games.

But, the really valuable educational materials are for premium members. There is a lot of help with vocabulary, phonics, and writing. Students can create their own lists. There are much better games. And for your whole family, it’s only $35/year. (Discounts are available if you are a Time4Learning member through their parent login)>

By: Deidra Gibson

Deidra Gibson — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:44:57 +0000

I am a homeschool teacher of 3. Can I use Spelling City with the homeschool curriculum that I use? Is it free or is there a fee?