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How to Give Feedback on Your Children’s Writing (No Judgment!)

Writing, for most of us, is deeply personal, and feels like a reflection of who we are, how we are perceived. So often, providing feedback on your children’s writing assignments feels like a losing battle, doesn’t it? If you’re too

Samantha Ligeti October 27, 2016 Broward Schools, educational technology, Helping Teachers, Site Features, Teaching Literacy No Comments Read more

Our Journey to Vocabulary Matters

 The lack of vocabulary accounted for 70% of reading comprehension problems in a group of 4th graders, according to the National Research Council. Is your elementary school satisfied with your students’ reading comprehension? Most elementary schools are not. I’m writing to

Barbara Kruger August 23, 2016 educational technology, Flipping the Classroom, Site Features, Teaching Literacy 4 Comments Read more

Teacher Talk: What they are saying to us

The Question: We asked of our users is to just tell us something about how they use VocabularySpellingCity. Here’s a collection of comments.   I use spellingcity on a daily basis. I assign assignments or let students choose activities to practice words.

John May 6, 2016 educational technology, Site Features, Teaching Literacy No Comments Read more

Science4Us.com Wins BESSIE Award for Best Science Concepts

Science4Us, VocabularySpellingCity’s sister site, has won a BESSIE Award for the Best Science Concepts Website. Science4Us is a standards-based, digitally delivered, early learning (K-2) science program.   This is the second honor for Science4Us this month! It is a CODiE Finalist as a Best Science

Jenna M April 21, 2016 educational technology, Elementary STEM, Site Features No Comments Read more

ELL: English Language Learners and VocabularySpellingCity

The VocabularySpellingCity site and app is a unique literacy tool used by many millions in schools, often to help ELL students. Why? Because VocabularySpellingCity is a rare combination of powerful, flexible, inexpensive, and convenient. Teachers can start using it on their own, or

John April 10, 2016 Helping Teachers, Site Features 7 Comments Read more

Tools for Differentiated Learning

VocabularySpellingCity provides several powerful flexible ways to support differentiated learning. Differentiated instruction means meeting students where they are and providing them appropriately difficult learning challenges.  For VocabularySpellingCity, this means being able to provide customized lists, assignments, and activities to specific

John July 28, 2015 Flipping the Classroom, Helping Teachers, Site Features, Teaching Literacy 2 Comments Read more

List Management: New & Improved for 2015-16 School Year

List Management: New & Improved for 2015-16 School Year

It’s back to school time and we have just given our users an upgraded experience in terms of how they work with their lists.  We’re eager for feedback. Actually, we’re pretty sure what we are going to hear since we ran

John July 24, 2015 Helping Teachers, Site Features No Comments Read more

Summer Program Online

This is the third summer that VocabularySpellingCity offers a summer study program.  Here’s what we’re providing.  It’s for families that feel their students would benefit from some academic activity during the summer to either build vocabulary and get up to level,

vscadmin May 11, 2015 Helping Teachers, Site Features 1 Comment Read more
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