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 * SpellingCity.com - A quick Intro and Resource**


 * **__[|SpellingCity.com]__ makes teaching spelling fun.** If you are like most teachers, you like to start with some professional development for training. With SpellingCity, the training is free and it comes in a set of short online videos. Want to see how it works? Watch our __[|Teacher Training Videos]__!


 * Spellingcity.com is a free spelling tool that makes teaching spelling exciting.** With online spelling games, spelling reviews, and spelling quizzes, your students will learn those weekly spelling words with unprecedented enthusiasm.


 * Most teachers continue to use their own weekly word lists** but they put them on SpellingCity to simplify practice and testing. Many teachers use the __[|Resources Section]__ of SpellingCity to learn about SpellingCity's existing lists such as __[|**__Compound Words__**]__, __[|**__Sight/Dolch Words__**]__,__[|**__Literature-Based Word Lists__**]__, and __[|**__Sound Alike Words__**]__.


 * How do teachers use SpellingCity.com? Many different ways.** Some teachers use SpellingCity in front of the class with projection screens; some print worksheets to practice spelling, vocabulary, and handwriting; some have the students practice their words with the online games; and others give practice and final tests using the online tools.



The most obvious SpellingCity feature is the ability to give yourself a [|spelling test].

Students can enter their spelling words themselves or teachers or parents can enter and save the lists for their students.

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 * Popular Spelling Games** (I've picked four of their ten games, each of works with any spelling list!)

||<  || **[|Literature Based Word Lists]

Educators and parents all agree that reading is one of the best ways for students to build their vocabulary.

Reading has been addressed by many traditional schools with giving suggested book lists to their students at the end of each school year. Not all schools, though, participate in this practice.

Home schooled students can use book lists provided by local libraries or from other sources.

**SpellingCity Has Reading Lists and Matching Vocabulary Lists

Using the book vocabulary lists with SpellingCity word games like MatchIt or Which Word? can help make reading the books a more enjoyable experience for the students. At the same time, the students can expand their vocabulary and their spelling skills. ** Book List Ranges from Pre-K to High School
 * SpellingCity has added a list of recommended books for students of all ages that can be used for reading. Corresponding text vocabulary word lists have been included for each book as well.
 * The books on our list range from Kindergarten level through high school. They include all time classics and modern novels.[[image:http://www.spellingcity.com/images/banners/tablet.gif height="158" align="right"]]

For Kindergarten, there is __[|Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?] [|The Cat in the Hat]__.

Younger elementary students can read __[|Madeline]__ and __[|The Very Hungry Caterpillar]__.

__[|The Big Wave]__ and __[|Little House on the Prairie]__ are a couple of the books suggested for the upper elementary readers.

For the middle school students, SpellingCity’s list includes __[|The Call of the Wild]__, __[|The Swiss Family Robinson]__, and __[|Island of the Blue Dolphin]__.

__[|Pride and Prejudice]__, __[|The Scarlet Letter]__, and __[|To Kill a Mockingbird]__ are some high school level books on the SpellingCity list. ** ||  ||