Review of Spellzone
Dec 2022
spellzone allows students to work independently at home, it's fairly interactive, students seem to like it, we also use it for EAL students and widening their vocabulary range; it provides great feedback for teachers, students and parents, students' progress can be easily monitored. The price is reasonable.
Reply from Spellzone:Thank you for your review and comments Kat.
It may help some of your students if they use the accessibility toolbox to adjust the visual appearance of Spellzone to their specific needs. There is also a text-to-speech facility which can be used if reading is difficult. Your EAL students may like to use the translation feature which can be used to translate any word list into 92 languages!
Kat found Spellzone:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“spellzone can be used independently at home by students, can be set as homework”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“it's hard to say, its the first year we are using Spellzone regularly and looking closely at data”
- Significantly provides school data“we use SpZone initial assessment result combined with Spelling test score to identify students in need of spelling intervention”
- Slightly improves attainment“not yet”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Some students, especially the weaker ones find accessing spellzone independently difficult. We see better impact on more able students with specific weakness in spelling.”
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