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=Spelling City=

Spelling City is an interactive website for students in Primary School for use at school and home.
[|www.spellingcity.com]

A teacher can create a page for students to use for literacy and comprehension practice. This is a fun way for students to learn their spelling words for the week in an interactive environment which is fun. The teacher has the ability to set a list of words for the week and once logged in the student can play games which involve spelling words and creating sentences with the word list.

The games include:

Spelling-hang mouse (hang man with a mouse and cat), letter fall (a mouse holding a bucket must move to catch the letters in the correct order to receive points), and word search.

Vocabulary-sentence unscramble (words are jumbled on the screen and the student must put them into the correct order to make the correct sentence), which word sentence (find the correct word to complete the sentence)

Writing-sentence writing practice (students must use all spelling words in a sentence), paragraph writing practice (students need to construct a paragraph using their words for the week).

Other games include crossword, alphabetise and handwriting practice where pages can be printed for students to follow.

Through the variety of games available on this website students of different ages and abilities can be catered for. Teachers can give more difficult words to students where needed and they can all be using the website at different levels. The many options on this site is a good form of inclusion for students with disabilities as the student can work at his/her own pace, they provide immediate feedback and can create a fun and interactive way to learn something that could become tedious, such as spelling practice.

Vocabulary and Spelling City.com (2007-2010) Retrieved [|www.spellingcity.com] 21/7/11.

//Spelling Through Morphographs // is a spelling program to help students from years 4 upwards. The program gives the students the tools they need to learn to spell. The program teaches a variety of morphographs -- prefixes, suffixes, and word bases -- and a small set of rules for combining them so that students learn a spelling strategy they can apply to thousands of words (McGraw-Hill, n.d.). For example the word 'throw' contains only one morphene, but 'throwing'contains two. Students with special needs can benefit from having a number of strategies to help them with their spelling. //Spelling Through Morphographs// has proved to be particularly valuable for students with learning difficulties (Westwood, 2007). The rules are taught with direct instructions to help students achieve mastery of the spelling strategies. The following link will give you an example of morphographs
 * Spelling Through Morphographs **



**﻿ ** **Key Features of ****//Spelling Through Morphographs //**
 * Sequenced instruction based on consistent rules, enables students to spell thousands of words.
 * Lessons teach the meanings of common morphemes, to boost vocabulary skills.
 * A strategy focused on word structures improves students' ability to decode multisyllabic words.
 * Instructional software provides a course of study tailored to each student's individual needs.

References: McGraw-Hill (n.d.). Spelling Through Morphographs. Retrieved from []

Westwood, P. (2007). Commonsense Methods: For Children with Special Educational Needs (5th ed.). Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge.