Tech Task #5: Spelling City

 This blog post won't be super long, but I absolutely love this app. I know that Mystery Lake Division uses this for their classrooms, and pay a subscription fee. From what I can see, the site is actually transitioning into a new site with the same functions called Vocabulary A-Z. 

To summarize this website in short, it is a website designed to enhance and teach kids literally any and every word you desire. All a teacher would have to do is input the words they want, or they can even do a "theme" search, and the website can create tests, games, activities, and tasks that fit those words. It's like Mathletics for ELA! Maybe not as game-like, but close enough. The awesome part about this too is that it saves you the teacher a ton of time. It corrects their work and keeps track of the students progress as well.

You can have a subscription, or pay a direct fee which is fairly expensive. If its something your division uses or is thinking of using, I highly recommend looking into it.  



Vocabulary A-Z (vocabularya-z.com)

Vocabulary Words - Spelling Practice - Phonics Games for Kids (spellingcity.com) 

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