Spelling Force V2
by EdAlive
Boost your spelling power with this complete spelling tutor for home and school!
Spell your way out of a nuclear disaster playing awesome spelling games with your chosen word list such as: save the ship’s gravity pods, launch an escape rocket, and salvage damaged space probes. Have fun and boost your spelling power at the same time!
Award winner
- 2007 Children’s TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Editor’s Choice Award
- 2006 BESSIE Award Winner – Best Upper Elementary Spelling Software
- 2006 EDDIE Award Winner – Best Upper Elementary Language Arts Software
Boost your spelling power with Spelling Force v2, featuring over 9,000 words. Each word has an example sentence, common misspellings to watch out for and a clear Australian voice recording PLUS four spelling games, printable worksheets, Look! Cover! Write! Check! and more! This is extreme spelling action! Motivates and challenges spellers of all ages and abilities!
Five game modes to boost your spelling power:
- Launchpad Panic!
The launch pad shields can only be open for a few minutes at a time. Spell the ignition codes before you’re trapped inside! Spelling focus: letter shapes, word shapes and decoding - The Magno-Beamer!
Catch all the pieces of the damaged space probe (letters) in the Magno-Beamer, then reassemble them in the correct order! Spelling focus: whole word visualisation - X-Ray Emergency!
You’re passing through a freak X-ray storm. When you recognise an energy pod’s code, deactivate it before the core is completely exposed! Spelling focus: word shapes - Major Meltdown!
Open each laser gate with the correctly spelt word, and then use your spelling skills to crack the reactor shutdown code and avoid a meltdown! Spelling focus: proofing stance - Look! Cover! Write! Check! Module
- This module displays the spelling word on screen while the child “looks” at it. The word is then “covered” while the child “writes” the word by typing it from memory. Once complete, the spelling is “checked” for correctness
- You can set whether the child or the computer “checks” the correctness of the spelling
- Parents and teachers can vary the amount of time the word displays
Educational Content
- Draws from a huge 9,000+ word bank graded by experienced teachers
- Word lists include phonic progressions, difficult words, high frequency words, word-building families, subject-specific vocabulary, homonyms and word origins!
- Each word is used in context in an example sentence, lists common misspellings, and has a clear voice recording
- Develops mature spelling skills by exploring spelling patterns and rules
- Learners progress from beginning foundations with words like ‘cat’ and ‘sat’ through to challenges like ‘xenophobia’ and ‘hypoglycaemia’
- Each list has been carefully graded by experienced teachers to maximise learning
- Spelling Force addresses all spelling outcomes contained in the curriculum of each Australian state. For more detailed correlations, go to edalive.com/curriculum
Features and Benefits
- All Editions
- Spelling Force addresses all spelling outcomes contained in the curriculum of each Australian state. Go to edalive.com/curriculum for more detailed information, including samples of:
- Word list categories
- Graded word lists
- Dorothy E. Miller phonics
- Word building and word group lists
- Frequency lists
- Difficult word lists
- Australian Speech
- Progress beginning, emerging, struggling and power spellers by selecting spelling content appropriate to their age and stage
- Target individual needs and design extension and revision programmes using the smart record keeping and progress-monitoring
- Assist struggling spellers by giving them words appropriate to their level
- Create custom word lists including weekly school spelling lists. Users can keep multiple lists in their name for access at a later date!
- Generate a ‘words for practice’ list for each user according to progress
- Teach spelling using the Look! Cover! Write! Check! method
- Print spelling lists or copy them to your word processor from your own or the in-built spelling lists
- Create up to seven different types of printable worksheets from your spelling lists including:
- Cloze 1 – Omit Vowels
- Cloze 2 – Omit Consonants
- Cloze 3 – Omit first and last letters
- Cloze 4 – Omit odd numbered letters
- Cloze 5 – Omit even numbered letters
- Jumbled letters
- Match word with sentence
- Monitor each student’s progress using smart record-keeping to allow targeting of individual needs for extension and revision
- Backward compatible and future proof
- Spelling Force addresses all spelling outcomes contained in the curriculum of each Australian state. Go to edalive.com/curriculum for more detailed information, including samples of:
- Home Edition
- Powerful administration and user-management features that can track the results of up to 10 users
- School Edition
- Powerful administration and user-management features that can track the results of thousands of users across multiple groups
- Network Edition – All of the School Edition features PLUS:
- Store all student records on a central computer using the SpellForce Network Server application
- Centralised data can be readily backed up with 3rd party back up software
Parent Reviews
“It is good to be able to buy an educationally sound program that will suit all the children throughout their schooling. The games are fun and adaptable for all age groups … a simple fun approach to spelling lists and a great family price.” – Kerry Behrend, mother of 5
Student Reviews
“I’m a really good speller and I use Aussie SpellForce for practice. My little sisters use it for homework and for practice. My favourite game is Magno-Beamer because of some of the longer, harder words – it gets very tricky!” – Chris, aged 11
“I love Aussie SpellForce because I can learn how to spell difficult words like ‘concentrated’ and ‘receipt’. I like to spell so I can be a great speller. Thanks to you, EdAlive, I’m beginning to be a be a good speller.” – Jessica, aged 7
“I like Aussie SpellForce because it helps me to learn how to spell words – it’s easy once you play it right! I like the submarine mission because it makes buzzing noises. I think this is the best game yet. It’s fun – sometimes I don’t know I’m doing work it’s so fun!” – Kaitlynn, aged 9
“My teacher asked me to play Aussie SpellForce and it was really fun! Launchpad Panic, Major Meltdown and Magno-Beamer were all great.” – Methuen, aged 8
“Aussie SpellForce is great. I am a really good speller thanks to you!” – Keiron, aged 14
Videos about Spelling Force V2
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Minimum System Requirements
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2, or later
- Processor: 600 MHz or equivalent
- CD-ROM: Required
- Operating System: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2, or later
- Macintosh
- Operating System: Mac OS 10.4.11, 10.5.6, 10.6 or later
- Processor: Universal PowerPC or Intel
- CD-ROM: Required
- Operating System: Mac OS 10.4.11, 10.5.6, 10.6 or later
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Spelling Force V2 is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Early Primary
- Mid Primary
- Upper Primary
- Secondary School
Spelling Force V2 is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Literacy
Users can access Spelling Force V2 in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
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