8 Spellzone Features You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Are you making the most of your Spellzone experience? We’ve put together this list of guides to help you take advantage of all our site features:

  1. How to Find Your Student's Spellzone Score in 5 Minutes

    The Spellzone score provides a useful data point for monitoring a student’s progress. Do you know where to find it?
     
  2. How to Cross-reference Your Student’s Course Pathway with the National Curriculum

    Want to make sure your students’ pathways align with the National Curriculum? Learn how to fill in any gaps in this blog post.  
     
  3. 3 Spelling Tasks to Set Your Students on Spellzone

    Learn how to set the three types of Spellzone task: the Spelling Ability Test, a Spellzone course unit, and a word list task.

    Teachers can set classroom or homework tasks for individual students, for a class, or for the whole school. Tasks can be set alongside or instead of the Course Pathway.
     
  4. How Many Points Have Your Students Collected?

    While working on Spellzone, students collect effort points and achievement points. Learn how to collect them and what they count towards in this blog post.
     
  5. Which Words Are Your Students Struggling With?

    Each time a student makes an error on a spelling test, Spellzone will add the word to the My Difficult Words section on their profile.

    The My Difficult Words section is tailored to each student and is updated every time the student takes a spelling test.
     
  6. How to Adapt Any Spellzone Word List for Your Lesson Plan

    Save time when creating resources by adapting any of Spellzone’s 1.9 million word lists to suit your lesson plan. All word lists can be used in a variety of spelling activities.
     
  7. How to use a Spellzone Word List in a Multiplayer Game   

    How many of our multiplayer games have you tried? Why not set up an in-school competition?
     
  8. 13 Ways to Monitor a Student’s Activity and Results on Spellzone

    Need to evaluate your student results? Click on any student’s name to find out more about how they have been using the resource. You can also monitor activity and results for your whole school or a specific class.  

 


25 May 2022
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