So it looks like they have just stuck in a mixture of common short words, without much regard for their level of spelling complexity. In the “easy” level there are also tricky spellings like the “o…e” in “love”, the “ey” in “they”, the “ear” in “wear” and the “ere” in both “were” and “here”. No single spelling pattern is represented long enough for learners to really get a handle on it. Unfortunately the lists that are already in the Spelling Bee are a mixture of easy and hard words without much coherence from a spelling pattern point of view.įor example, the “easy” level includes the little, one-letter-equals-one-sound words “up”, “him”, “hat”, “mop”, “but”, “had” and “sad”, but mixes them up with words containing consonant digraphs like “she”, “moth”, “fish”, “neck” and “off”, consonant blends like “old”, “and” and “fox”, “y” as a vowel in “fly” and “my”, and a mixture of vowel digraphs in words like “car”, “boy”, “foil”, “blur”, “good” and “moo”.
STARFALL 2 VOWELS GO WALKING FREE
This free app is from the NSW Department of Education and Communities, and includes seven sections in its main menu, one of which is “Spelling Bee”. They are: School A To Z (Spelling Bee activity, not available 2018) However, I’m happy to say that I have been able to find two nice spelling apps that allow you to put in your own spelling lists with recorded voice, including an example sentence so there is no confusion about homophones like made/maid and sale/sail, and which don’t contain extraneous “when two vowels go walking” sort of rules or explanations, annoying feedback or other stuff that detracts from the usefulness and enjoyment of the activity. all the colour words together, even though “red” is easy to spell while “orange” and “purple” are a lot harder. Most seem to contain lists a bit like typical school spelling lists, with words related by meaning but not spelling e.g.
First Grade Reading Program (Long vowels section).Starfall Learn to Read (activities 6-11).Silly Sentences 2 (not available in 2018).Preschool University Reading Magic 4 (skill 3).Forest Phonics (no longer available in 2020).The phonics ones I use most when working on “long” vowels are: He has skills beyond most of the apps I wrote about in this previous blog post, but unfortunately there aren’t a lot of good apps to help teach vowel digraphs and other, more complex spelling patterns. I’ve been working with a little boy on “long” vowel spellings – the “a…e” in “make”, “save” and “face”, the “ai” in “rain”, “sail” and “chain” and the “ay” in “day”, “say” and “way”, using my movable alphabet, Workbook 4 and a…e Race game, but as he’s a little pre-geek who keeps wanting to use my iPad, I’ve been trying to find ways to incorporate it into our sessions.
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