22 Ways to Make the Most of your Spellzone Subscription in 2022

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  1. Personalise your profile by adding an avatar
     
  2. Collect achievement points by working on test activities and effort points by working on learning activities. 
     
  3. Work your way from a Spelling Newbie to a Spelling Grandmaster by collecting achievement points. Check out your current level on your Spellzone profile.
     
  4. Up for a little competition? Our league tables are updated weekly. 
     
  5. Finished a unit? Rate how confident your feel about your new learning on the end-of-unit-summary page. 
     
  6. Made a mistake? Practise spellings as many times as you need to in the My Difficult Words section. 
     
  7. Create word lists for your own practice.
     
  8. Too busy to practise right now? Bookmark any interesting word list and come back to it later.
     
  9. Hear any word spoken by clicking on the speaker icon and translate any word list into over 90 different languages.
     
  10. Use any word list in a variety of learning activities including Look, Say, Cover, Right, Check and Listen and Spell.  
     
  11. Test your skills in any of our seventeen different spelling games. Click on the football icon to start playing. Can you make the scoreboard? 
     
  12. Look out for a green M next to a game for multiplayer mode. How many friends can you beat?  
     
  13. Set yourself up for success with the right workspace.   
     
  14. Spelling the same word wrong over and over again? Create a mnemonic to help your memory.  
     
  15. Are you spelling with all your senses?
     
  16. A great way to improve your spelling is by writing as much as possible. Here are five writing tips.
     
  17. Not sure what to write about? These prompts might help.  
     
  18. Make sure you avoid these common mistakes.  
     
  19. The more words you know, the easier it is to recognise spelling patterns. Why not try and expand your vocabulary?  
     
  20. Sometimes the history of a word will give you a clue about how to spell it. 
     
  21. Watch out for loanwords.  
     
  22. Don’t forget to have fun

04 Jan 2022
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