This resource has learning theory and teaching built-in two, with regular opportunities for space retrieval. Each resource works with three to four week cycles, where each week a specific grammatical concept is focused on. Every third of fourth week, a mixed skills activity is embedded which gives activities that cover the previous three-week’s teaching and learning. Meaning that students have the opportunity to return to previous learning and go over it, giving it an increased chance of being retained in the long-term. At the end of the test, children can see how many they got right and the correct spelling for each word. Answer field: a text field where you have to correctly type the current word pronounced by the app. Each test has at least 8 questions to stretch children's spelling skills! Interactive Spelling Games for Kids Reading depends on rapid, smooth decoding. It's what allows a good reader to look at words and instantly recognize what they are "saying" (that is, decode them into real words).

Once your child completes a test, it's essential that they practice spelling the words they got wrong. We recommend writing out each word, by hand, at least three times.

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Unfortunately, for many children, this does not happen. Instead, reading is an onerous chore where they have to repeatedly stop to spend time and effort sounding out a slew of words. On the left side you will find some useful information related to the ongoing test: test type, words to go, repeat calls, last spelled word, difficulty level and elapsed time for this test. A report card is generated and added to the other tests results by the same student, a dialog will appear giving the possibility to review your results immediately. E xecution F actor assigns more points when the spelling session has been completed in the cleanest possible way (ie using the least possible aids like definition, repeat etc.)

Our online spelling tests are split into children's age groups, from Year 1 (when children are between 5 and 6 years old) all the way up to Year 6 (when they are between 10 and 11 years old). C ourage F actor gives more points when the spelling test options are set to higher difficulty (No definitions, no repeat, longer spelling words list, Harder difficulty). Repeat: if repeat is allowed for this test, it will repeat the current word and increase the repeat counter by one. The app voice will invite you to press the Next Word button (or enter key on your keyboard) to proceed with net word.The research shows that spelling helps children master the alphabetic principle and also has a positive impact on reading.” - Dr. Rebecca Treiman, Professor of Child Developmental Psychology and Director of the Reading and Language Lab at Washington University Both thesefactor offers a further bonus when the limit is reached (maximum execution factor reached and maximum courage factor reached). Words used for the test are taken from the official SBN words database containing thousands of words for each difficulty level. Choose here how many words you want for this spelling test, the app allows 10, 15 or 20 words per test, the default and suggested value is 10 when learning new words, but you can use more words if you are taking review tests (I.e. using words that you already know). Define: this button will pop up a dialog showing the current word definition, of course the word itself will be hidden in the definition window.

It is a fixed scoring system. This means that, as for school grades, there is a maximum score that cannot be exceeded. SBN is well aware of the difficulty level of the words used in this case, so the spelling test is considered official. Every one of our games is a simple, online, multiple-choice spelling quiz. Children listen to the word, then the word within a sentence and finally the word again. They then have four choices and must select the correct spelling. Official Spelling test: take an Official Spelling Test, refer to the paragraph below to learn more about Official tests. Smart Training (Review): take a spelling test provided by the Smart Training algorithm in review mode, to verify the words you learned ( see smart training documentation).

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the statutory spelling requirements for every year as well as the statutory word lists for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6; My son really enjoyed Spelling Ninja! He completed the entire course in a few weeks. Before that, he had been struggling through a workbook spelling course, and I feel his spelling really did improve as a result. Parents looking for something different or who are dealing with reluctant spellers should be pleased.” - Linsey Knerl, parent Fortunately there is a solution which may be a bit unexpected – since it rests not in reading but in writing. Reading often can be achieved without "exactness." For example, if you show a young child a long word starting with el and ending with ant, the chances are that he or she will say ("correctly") that it is the word elephant. The cues are sufficient to make this "guess." Writing, or at least accurate writing, is not possible if this kind of rough approximation is used. For a word to be written accurately, each and every letter must be noted and placed in the correct sequence. That's why writing holds the key to both successful reading and writing. A skipped word is not considered as bad as a misspelled one but skipping words will limit bonus points (this to encourage the student to try hard to understand and also because a misspelled word is easier to remember than a skipped one). note : in the following notation += means incrementing the variable by the value that follows example x+=3 means x = x+ 3.