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Helping Teachers Shine when Teaching Elementary Science!

We often hear from school and education leaders: What we really need help with is improving our teaching human capital… Our teachers need a lot of help to teach science and science inquiry, especially at the younger grades.  At our

John April 22, 2018 educational technology, Elementary STEM, Flipping the Classroom No Comments Read more

Providing Successful PD to your Teachers

Note that this post highlights one of VocabularySpellingCity’s sisters: Science4Us. It is an early elementary science program. Increasingly, principals and superintendents are  asking us  to help develop their teachers. We have always provided professional development to support our products but

John April 20, 2018 educational technology, Elementary STEM, Flipping the Classroom, Helping Teachers No Comments Read more

Posting Educational Standards

I love visiting elementary school classrooms and when I do,  I check out the environment. Every classroom now seems to post the educational goals for the week. They post for each subject. They post at four depths of knowledge. And

John February 10, 2018 educational technology, Teaching Literacy No Comments Read more

Vocabulary Memory Match: Mix It UP!

The new Vocabulary Memory Match game from VocabularySpellingCity engages the students because it really mixes it up. It blends a classic simple gameplay with some complex concepts of what makes a match. It really makes them think. It is one

John January 14, 2018 educational technology, Flipping the Classroom, Site Features No Comments Read more

VocabularySpellingCity Speaks with an Australian Accent!

For years, VocabularySpellingCity has been popular in Australia and New Zealand. Despite the heavy usage and rave reviews for VocabularySpellingCity from Down Under, there has been some annoyance regarding our accent. The fact is that our 50,000 sentences were all

John January 13, 2018 educational technology, New Games & Activities, Teaching Literacy No Comments Read more

Sound Counter: Building Literacy Foundational Skills

Sound Counter is designed to build student success on key foundational skills, Sound Counter is a creative approach to helping build these skills.  Students are presented with a word and asked to count the sounds.  For example, a student might

John January 12, 2018 educational technology, New Games & Activities, Teaching Literacy No Comments Read more

Which Letter Team?

Happy New Year and to celebrate, VocabularySpellingCity has provided several new learning games to its Premium Member.  These learning games provide unique benefits to schools, teachers, and students in building foundational, phonics, and vocabulary skills.  Because of their flexibility, high

John January 12, 2018 educational technology, New Games & Activities, Site Features, Teaching Literacy No Comments Read more

Silly Bulls, Penguins, and Roaches! Oh my! Halloween 2017 flew by!

#HappyHalloween2017 🎃👻 pic.twitter.com/ABCm2pDlmt — SpellingCity (@SpellingCity) October 31, 2017 Halloween is all about sweet treats and creative costumes. This year at VocabularySpellingCity, we challenged the team to get into the Halloween spirit by dressing up as a characters from our

John October 31, 2017 Flipping the Classroom No Comments Read more

Any Port in a Storm: Learning English Idioms

Now that Hurricane Irma has past, I’m riding home to Ft Lauderdale. VocabularySpellingCity is headquartered in South Florida so we shut the office last week and everyone scurried like ants to safety.  In my case, my  “port”  was a dog-friendly

John September 13, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Improving Reading Comprehension through Vocabulary Retention

 Vocabulary is responsible for 70% of reading comprehension problems in elementary schools. And while the research is clear on what most students require to build vocabulary (12 spaced multimodal encounters with a word), many schools ignore the research and reading scores suffer.

John July 9, 2017 educational technology, Flipping the Classroom, Helping Teachers, Teaching Literacy No Comments Read more
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John Edelson

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