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Mastering Homophones: Your Ultimate Guide to Confident Spelling with Spellzone

Understanding Homophones: Your Key to Confident Spelling Homophones, words that share similar sounds but differ in meanings and spellings, pose a challenge for many English learners. Whether you're a student striving for academic excellence, a professional aiming for clear communication, or simply someone eager to improve your language skills, mastering homophones is crucial. In this detailed guide, we'll delve into the intricacies of homophones, providing you with spelling strategies and practice word lists to become proficient in identifying and using homophones accurately. Exploring Spellzone's Homophone Guides Spellzone offers an extensive archive of homophone gui...

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Nurturing Confident Spellers: Navigating the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Cycle with Spellzone

From initial assessments to personalised spelling courses and real-time evaluation, Spellzone streamlines the educational experience for teachers and students, making learning easy and enjoyable. Spellzone adeptly manages each phase of the teaching, learning, and assessment cycle—identifying needs, planning learning, facilitating learning, assessing learning, and evaluating learning—so that educators can focus on what’s important: teaching. Initial Assessment: Identifying Learner Needs with Spelling Ability Test Spellzone begins the educational journey with an initial assessment—the Spelling Ability Test.   This assessment efficiently identifies...

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Word for Wednesday: Education

Friday January 24th January marks International Day of Education.  The word education is used to describe the activities of imparting or acquiring knowledge or skill, usually in a formal setting like school or university. International Day of Education honours ‘education and its centrality to human well-being and sustainable development.’ Education is a human right that offers children ‘a ladder out of poverty and a path to a promising future’. Despite this, ‘about 265 million children and adolescents around the world do not have the opportunity to enter or complete school; 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math; less than 40%...

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Back to School: Are you using Spellzone in your classroom?

Whether you’re a teacher, student, or parent, we hope you’ve had a restful summer and are rejuvenated for the term ahead. If you’re looking to change up your lesson plans or get to grips with spelling this year, Spellzone is the course for you. What better time to try it out than the start of a new academic year? Spellzone is an online English spelling resource used by students aged seven to adult. It unlocks the mystery of English spelling and is adaptable for all abilities including students learning English as a foreign language and those with dyslexia. Want to find out more about how to integrate the course into your studies? Here are some back-to-school...

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"Thank goodness for Spellzone during this remote learning phase. The site is easy for students to navigate independently and they're really enjoying the activities and spelling games. You get an awful lot for your money with Spellzone. Really reassuring is the very prompt response with helpdesk queries. I've very rarely needed the helpdesk, but when I have, the issue has been addressed and sorted within a very short time."

Sarah Taggart, Oasis Academy Lord's Hill