Spelling City Review & Giveaway!

I have been so excited about sharing this news with you guys! I was recently contacted by Vocabulary Spelling City to see if I would like to try their premium membership AND offer one to my blog readers. Um, yes please!

I've actually been using Spelling City for about three years, so I agreed without hesitation. I have been a big fan of the site mainly because the students love it as a homework option. I can't tell you how many times parents have told me that the the night students can choose Vocabulary Spelling City is the only night that they don't have a homework hassle. That alone was enough for me to love the program.

If you're not familiar with the site, it is a wonderful resource. You can type or import your spelling lists online and then your students can practice by playing highly engaging games with your word lists. That alone is fantastic, but there are so many other things I love. Now that I've been using the site for a couple of years, all of my word lists are already imported and saved. It literally takes me two clicks to publish my new list at the beginning of the week! I got smart and started saving my lists by week number instead of the skill, making it even easier for me to find the right one quickly.

I had the pleasure of meeting Nancy from Vocabulary Spelling City at the Florida Educational Technology Conference last week. She showed me some features of the free membership that I did not even know about. For example, most of the games on VSC are also available in a printed version for your students who may not have computer access. I'm thinking that those printable games would also be great for a word work activity or even to leave with your sub plans. You can also print out handwriting practice and sentence writing practice pages. You can see those {HERE}.

As a premium member, I've been spending some time learning about all of the new resources available to me now - and wow! I can track how much time each student has spent practicing and which games they play. One premium feature I especially like is that I can assign activities to certain students as well.  Kids won't often practice the areas they really need help with without a little push to do so. I can also now also generate reports on each student and you know how important data is! With a premium membership you can even assign different lists to groups in your class, making differentiation easy. Another great benefit is that there are no ads on the premium site.

Did you know that you can check out the premium games without even being a premium member? If you're curious to see what you're missing, just choose a pre-made list from the teacher resource page and you & your students can access all of the games, even the premium ones!

The VSC site itself is really very user friendly, both for the students and you.  There are even free training videos that you can check out {HERE}. If you haven't signed up for their newsletter, click {HERE} to check it out. They are always short and sweet but packed with lots of good information.

So, let's get to the goodies! Vocabulary Spelling City has generously offered a one year premium membership valued at $49.99 to one of my blog followers! Very cool, right? Enter below via Rafflecopter and I'll announce the winner here Monday, February 6. Good luck friends!
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