SpellingCity becomes Vocabulary SpellingCity.com

When everyone starts up in 2011 and checks into their favorite educational website (LOL), they'll see that the name has changed.  We're now Vocabulary SpellingCity.com.  Same URL (Still www.SpellingCity.com) just a new name.   Why?

 

The name change reflects the rollout of a complete redo of the site in which we have, over the last year, added a massive amount of new features. 

We have added a great amount of vocabulary and grammarcapability with both new games and new underlying resources to work with. The user base is expanding rapidly upwards from elementary into middle and highschools. 

 

New games. The big hit is Word-O-Rama, a game showformat for vocabulary practice that works great on a big screen or forindividual use.  The game mixes practice with definitions, usage,antonyms, and synonyms. The other new le

arning activities are a vocabularytest, a definitions match game, and a parts of speech game. Everyone can usethese activities on the site’s hundreds of resource and sample lists. Only premium members can use them on their own lists.

 

New resources. We have incorporated definitions forforty thousand words. We have written definitions for EACH major usage of aword so some words have many usages.  For instance, the word scale hasfive usages (for a device that weighs, climbing, fish skin, musical, proportionlike on a map). We have a sentence, spoken by a human, for each definitionillustrating its use. Each use has a part of speech identified with it. And wehave added synonyms and antonyms.

 

We'd appreciate your feedback and your help getting the word out. A good first step is to see if the site works well for you. Check it out.  Vocabulary SpellingCity.com.

 

Some features & teaching resources:

Compound Word (with lesson plans), Geography Terms, Sound-Alikes, Analogies(related site)