If you’re an elementary teacher, Spin and Spell is a great spelling website. There are a number of areas to choose from (home, clothing, transportation, etc) and a bunch of pictures associated with each. You click on a picture, and you hear it said. Then you spin the wheel of letters to spell out the word. When you’re ready, you submit your spelling, and you’re told if you spelt the word right or not.

It’s a nice spin (so to speak) on the old idea of a spelling bee. The only drawback is that all the words are fairly easy. It could be challenging for kids in Grade 3 or 4, but likely not much beyond that. As far as I can tell, there’s also no way to add your own words which would be incredibly cool.

It’s a great little site for practicing beginner spelling and it makes that practice just a bit more interesting than repeatedly writing out the word. That’s a great accomplishment.