Vocabulary Spelling City
by Malena MartÃnez
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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT VOCABULARY SPELLING CITY
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT VOCABULARY SPELLING CITY
The website has been launched in 2008. Nowadays, it has millions of users and it is a award-winning website.
Even though it is called Vocabulary Spelling City, not only is this website a practice for spelling but also other aspects of vocabulary such as phonics, meaning and writing.
"VocabularySpellingCity is dedicated to helping students, teachers, parent-teachers and school systems."
The website's objective is to provide "efficient game-based study of literacy skills using any word list."
You can learn a lot more about VocabularySpellingCity in its "About us" section.
Moreover, what is great about Vocabulary Spelling City is that the user can create their own lists of words. So it can be adapted to every English levels.
VOCABULARY SPELLING CITY TO TEACH SEN STUDENTS
VOCABULARY SPELLING CITY TO TEACH SEN STUDENTS
A thorough research has shown that Vocabulary Spelling City is a great tool to enhance Reading Comprehension.
Dyslexic people and individuals with ADHD are exemplars of SEN students that struggle with retention of vocabulary and comprehension of texts.
Vocabulary Spelling City is the perfect tool to help them achieve long-term memorisation of vocabulary in an enjoyable way; playing games.
This long-term memorisation of words is reached by the different aspects Vocabulary Spelling City provides students with:
SAMPLE ACTIVITY
SAMPLE ACTIVITY
Word-O-Rama is a nice game to play with SEN students that find issues when remembering vocabulary.
This games sets the students in the situation od a Quiz Show in which he/her has to choose the correct synonym, the suitable word in the sentence or match the term with the definition.
References:
Hockly, N.(2017) Unit 45: 10 things to know about SEN students and technology. EtPedia: Technology. pp. 159-161. Hove: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd.
McREL. (2017, January). Efficacy Study: VocabularySpellingCity Proven to Increase Vocabulary Retention & Reading Comprehension. https://www.spellingcity.com/pdfs/vsc-vocabulary-efficacy-research.pdf
VocabularySpellingCity. (2017, March 13). VocabularySpellingCity.com | Home. https://www.spellingcity.com/
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