🗣️ Spelling Practice: Hear the Word and Type It

How to use it

1. 1. Enter the spelling words

   Type the week's list, one word per line. A list of eight to twelve words works well. The sample words show how it looks.

2. 2. Choose a voice

   The clear English voice plays common English words, which helps children who are learning English. It is the choice the English page starts with. On pages in other languages the tool starts with no voice: each word is shown for two seconds and then hidden, which suits words in your own language. This device's own voice reads any word, in any language, and sounds different on each device. Your choice between the first two is remembered on the device.

3. 3. Press Start practice

   The list disappears. With a voice the first word is played; with no voice it is shown for two seconds and then hidden. Press Hear the word (or Show the word again when there is no voice) as often as needed, then type the word and press Enter to check it.

4. 4. Review the score

   After the last word you see the score and the words that were missed. Practice these words again to go over only the tricky ones.

Ideas for class and home

• Weekly test at home

  A parent can enter the school list on Sunday and let the child practice alone, with no one reading words out loud.

• Reading and spelling centre

  Set the tool up on a classroom tablet with headphones so pupils can take turns practicing their own list quietly.

• Look, cover, write, check

  Choose No voice and each word is shown for two seconds and then hidden. The child writes it from memory, a classic method. It works for words in any language.

• Catch up on tricky words

  Add only the words that went wrong last time and practice again until each one is spelled right every time.