It’s that time of the year again — Spelling Bee!

Spellingcity.com is a great site for helping students get ready for spelling tests.

Words of Arabic origin

After registering (free), teachers can enter their own spelling lists or use one of the 100+ “sample” lists (including “Words of Arabic Origin” and lists by grade level up to grade 8). There are thousands of spelling lists from grade 1 to high school (e.g. SAT prep).

Students can work with spelling lists in three ways — “teach me,” “test me,” or play a game.”  One of the best features of this site is a real human voice which pronounces the words (not your standard “computer generated” voice box!) which means extensive possibilities for using this site to differentiate instruction, teach English language learners as well as differently abled students.

Lists for handwriting practice (3 sizes of lines, capital or cursive) may be printed as well as lists of words.  Parent letters may also be printed to send home.  This site won the “Parents Choice Award” (deserving!).

Digital Learning for Early Elementary — BBC KS1 Bitesize

 

 

Math

The BBC (British Broadcasting Company) has an educational site for kids divided into “key stages.” KS1 or Key Stage 1 is equivalent to early elementary (approximately K-2). The site has engaging, interactive modules in literacy (spelling, phonics, alphabetical order, pronouns, using punctuation etc) and numeracy (time, number ordering adding and subtraction, division, multiplication, money, organizing data etc.) topics for practice and reinforcement.

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