What is Spellzone?

Spellzone is an online English spelling resource used by students aged six to adult. It unlocks the mystery of American English spelling and is adaptable for all abilities including SEND, SLD, ESL students and those with dyslexia.

Spellzone is browser-based and can be used on any platform. It is fully accessible with many options for font, text and background colour, text size and a text to speech facility.

Spellzone includes:

Spelling Ability Test

Measures spelling ability.
Provides a baseline 'Spellzone Score'.
Creates a personal 'Course Pathway'.
Automatically retests and updates according to new learning.

Starter Course

Suitable for students aged six to adult.
Entry level resource in eight units.
Teaches basic phonic spelling rules using multi-sensory activities and tests.
Pre-loaded word lists including the top 100 high-frequency words.

Main Course

Suitable for students aged nine to adult.
A complete teaching course.
Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels in 36 units.
Teaches all English spelling rules and includes:

- ‘Rule breakers’.
- Basic concepts such as vowels, consonants, syllables, prefixes and suffixes.
- Teaching text includes definitions, sentence context and learning tips.
Interactive spelling tests to check understanding.
Results seen instantly with 'traffic lights' code to keep learning on track.

Word Lists

There are 1000s of word lists available on Spellzone including course lists, vocabulary lists and user created lists.

All word lists, including those created by you can be:

Translated into 92 languages - useful for ESL learners.
Includes American English spellings.
Used with:

- Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check - one of the best ways to learn spellings.
- Listen and Spell - test learning using audio.
- Spelling games - a fun way to reinforce learning.
- Printable worksheets - for off-line activities and study.
- Handwriting worksheets - including joined and unjoined activities.

Curriculum word lists

Saving hours of preparation time, these resources provide links to pre‐loaded word lists and printable resources.

If you would like your own curriculum words lists adding, please contact us.

A comprehensive dictionary including sound

Most words can be checked for meaning in our online dictionary and you can hear the word read aloud.

Report on progress and attainment

A full record is kept on our secure database of all activity and results.

Students can see only their own scores. Teachers and tutors may view and evaluate all student activity, level of engagement and results. Reports can be downloaded at any time.

About Spellzone