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Listen and Spell the Word

Hear the word, then spell it. The hardest game in the subject, and the one that proves a word is really known.

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What it teaches

Hearing a word and writing it down. It needs the sound, the spelling and the keyboard all at once, which is why it is last: a word that can be spelled from hearing it is a word that has been learned properly.

It also quietly teaches English spelling, which rarely matches the sound. A child who has typed cheese a few times stops expecting it to look like it sounds.

How it works

The word is spoken and an on-screen keyboard appears with the letters. The child types. The word can be heard again at any time.

A wrong letter is not accepted, and the word stays. On the gentler settings the right key lights up after a long pause; on the strict ones it never does.

What to look for

Expect this to be slow. A child who is quick at Listen and pick may take three times as long here, and that gap is the point of having both.

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