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User Guide: My Spelling Learning App
When your school subscribes to the English Component of Essential Assessment, you gain access to our learning app, My Spelling. My Spelling is an investigative online application designed to provide a holistic approach to spelling by integrating phonics, visual patterns and semantics.
This guide will help you navigate the app’s features—from identifying student misconceptions to implementing targeted practice through our unique "Spelling Lands"
The 'Play' section overview
The Play section is the primary starting point and serves as the main hub for all spelling lands.
- Curriculum-Aligned Lands: Each land is based on a spelling topic pulled directly from the curriculum, such as homophones or compound words.
- Progressive Difficulty: Every land features a list of 20 words that begin with simpler examples and gradually increase in complexity.
- Split-Year Level Design: In the Year 3–4 lands, the first 10 words are suited for Year 3, while the second 10 are suited for Year 4. This structure applies across all sections, including F–2, 7–8, and 9–10.
- Teacher Control: Educators can toggle specific lands on or off to ensure students remain focused on particular learning areas.
Teacher Resources
Focus areas are automatically compiled into a PDF teacher resource sheet. Teachers can download these to use as physical teaching tools for specific student needs. To access these PDF's, you can navigate to the expander arrows under your students results.
From here, you can export the Focus Area Resource (PDF), Export Words (PDF), or Reset the Land.
Targeted Reinforcement Modes
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Acts as a weekly aural spelling test using 10 words based on the student's stored focus areas. |
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Uses a "look, cover, write, check" theme, allowing students to practice incorrect words by typing them into missing sentence gaps. |
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A visual memory recall game where students select the correct letter combinations (digraphs/trigraphs) to complete a word. |
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A vocabulary-building find-a-word with three levels: Easy (10 words), Medium (15 words), and Hard (20 words). |
How to Use My Spelling in Your Classroom
To get the best results, we recommend using the app to target the specific needs of your students based on their actual writing. You can do this by:
- Check Student Writing: Look at a student’s recent writing or assessments to spot recurring spelling mistakes.
- Pick the Right Land: Match those mistakes to a specific "Spelling Land". For example, if a group of students is struggling with homophones, you can assign them to Iceberg Land (Years 3–4) or Alpine Land (Years 5–6).
- Track Progress: As students work through a land, they use a variety of skills to spell both familiar and new words. This provides you with clear data on any further "blind spots" they might have.
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Targeted Teaching: Use the focus areas identified by the app to download specific PDF teacher resource sheets. These give you a ready-made list of ten words to use for small group instruction or focused classroom lessons