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Looking for a way to encourage your students to study their spelling words that makes it fun for them? Using technology may be the answer! Spelling City is a wonderful interactive tool that your students can use at school or at home to review any list such as spelling lists  vocabulary words for reading, science and social studies  sight word lists  and the list goes on, and on, and on. There are many lists that are already programmed onto the sight that you can browse through and utilize. Another cool feature of this program is that it can help your students practice their keyboarding skills while helping them learn their spelling or vocabulary words! You can customize the definitions of every word to suit the needs of your classroom and age group. There are so many uses for spelling city in today's classroom and it is so easy to use. The basic application is free to teachers and there is an optional service that has even more features for a nominal fee. My students really like the hangmouse game and the word find. Below you will find a link to the games page to browse the wide variety of literacy tools available with this program. [|games] There sentence scramble can be customized for utilization with sentence dictation and vocabulary definitions can be suited to your age group. This is my homepage link to Spelling City. [|spelling city] I hope you enjoy it as much as my class does! I chose this website because it lends itself to numerous applications in my classroom. We can use it as a group and study our words on the smart board or they can use it individually at home to review and study with their parents. There is a nice feature built into the program that says the words and reads the sentences for ELL students and those students who may have trouble reading all the words. That is why I like the customizable definition and sentence part of the program. The sentences can be customized with words that the students know and can read to help with their literacy confidence.