I was recently given premium access to the Vocabulary Spelling City website, and the chance to review it! What is Vocabulary Spelling City? It's an amazing website with a huge number of games to help your kids out with their spelling and vocabulary retention skills. There is also much more to the site including grammar practice and a new writing aid feature. The content available is designed to help kids ranging in age from kindergarten all the way through to highschool school.
I have used the site in the past, with the free games available. There are many of them and even without a paid membership this site is a great resource. Vocabulary Spelling City provides a nice mix of features I like AND games the kids enjoy. Although, it should be noted, a basic understanding of the keyboard is necessary to most of the games! So if you're not interested in teaching your 5 year old to hunt and peck for letters you might only want to use this site with slightly older children.
You can input any list of words you want, and then pick between a number of games to have your child practice the words. There are spelling games, and there are vocabulary ones as well. There are a huge number of existing lists, or you can create your own. What does the paid subscription add? Most important to me is the ability to save your spelling and vocabulary lists and to track your children's scores. Most exciting to my kids is probably the additional 9 games you get access to.
Other fun features that stand out to me:
- The ability to print a number of the games. Such as analogy sheets, or custom generated crossword puzzles.
- Ad free "gaming" for the kids with the premium subscription. It's nice to have the screen be uncluttered of the advertising junk.
- The new Vocabulary Spelling City iPhone/iPad app that was released just this past month. You can pull up your custom spelling lists from the app and play a subset of the games.
Cons? Other than the overwhelming amount of information and options on the site (just kidding!)?! None, really. Use the free games, or try out the premium membership which costs $29.99 for an annual subscription that you can use with up to 5 children. I think that price is reasonable, as long as you end up consistently using the site. You can read all about their other premium membership benefits here.
Want other thoughts and opinions? To see what the rest of the TOS Crew had to say head over to the Schoolhouse Review blog.
I was provided with this subscription to review free of charge. That being said, all opinions expressed are 100% mine.
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