Updated on March 8, 2017
These free websites and apps help kids and high school students increase their vocabulary and improve their spelling skills. Many of the sites have interactive spelling games and vocabulary games. There are also sites with expert advice and strategies for teachers and parents to help students learning these skills.
In this multi-pronged approach to learning vocabulary, students watch videos illustrating the words and play crossword puzzles to reinforce learning. Vocabulary includes the 300 most common SAT vocabulary words. There’s also an option to use flashcards for review. With free…
Stellar Speller is a spelling game where kids click on the letters to spell the word that matches the picture. Designed for grade 1.
Help Pearl and Flora find their friends in the bubble machine. Choose the correct plural spelling of a given word. There are options for multiple choice or fill in the blank. You also choose from tough or easier words.
In the Spellaroo game, you pick the misspelled word from the sentence. Choose from beginner or intermediate levels.
Spell Check asks you to check the misspelled word from the four choices given. Then you spell it correctly in the box. Choose from easy or hard levels.
Type in the missing letters to complete the word that matches a word at the bottom of the page.
In Word Confusion, you pick the correct word to fill in the sentence. You choose from two words that are often interchanged incorrectly. There’s any easy level and a hard level.
Match spelling words with their missing letters, and words with their meanings.
Practice spelling the 300 most frequently used words. The 300 words in this game make up 65% of written material.
Using Look Cover Write and Check, you can generate spelling words by spelling pattern, topics such as numbers, science and geography, or create custom word lists.
Here are the 3000 most commonly used words in the English language in order of frequency of use. View them in groups of 100.
From site: Check out 2 cool ways to memorize your spelling words. Don’t worry — it only feels like a game, it still counts as studying! First type in 10 words to study. Double check that you’ve spelled all of…
In DynaMo’s Spellbound, kids spell against the clock with SloMo. There are 3 levels of difficulty. To play, Look carefully at the word on top of the wall. When it disappears, drag the letters into the slots and spell the…
Pinky the Mouse and Ela the Elephant will help you to learn the meaning of some prefixes and suffixes while you play a game. The prefixes include pre-, un-, re-, bi- . The suffixes include -ed, -er, -ful, -ly, -s.
Spelling it Right – Learn How to Spell Confidently offers: Free printable worksheets, help and advice from an experienced English teacher. This site is for: parents who are concerned about their children’s spelling and are keen to help them improve…