"I love that I can give differentiated spelling tests that read the words out loud. All of my students have their own lists of words."
"It is a great help for our program and saves me a lot of time."
"I love the program that you have created as it takes a lot of work out of marking spelling tests and gives students instant feedback on their work which is essential for learning."
"This is an amazing resource and is really helpful with my small group."
Research shows that being a fluent, successful speller is a critical aspect of student success in the Science of Reading approach.
And this research provides a framework for how spelling should be taught within the classroom:
Create your Word Lists in seconds. Whether it’s a few or a few hundred lists, creating them is fast and easy.
Create your Students. Rapidly create them one at a time, or upload in bulk from Google Classroom, Seesaw, or similar.
Assign students into groups based on their progression, classroom, or other criteria. Assigning hundreds of students is easy. This step is completely optional.
Create practice assignments and tests that end on specific dates.
Distribute them to students with a link and their student code, once.
At school or home, your students log in with a link and a simple code that takes them right to their word list for that week.
You decide whether students can take the test over and over (repeated practice), or whether they get one attempt as a test.
View personalized progress reports across all of the students, with the ability to drill down to identify areas of opportunity.
Print a full report from test day to send home with students for parents to see.
Your students perform better because of the practice they received with Spelling Test Buddy. They become better spellers, writers, and their reading has improved.
Here is a sample online spelling test. Results are graded immediately, and you can review reports of each student's progress. Note that this is from the Parent edition, but the Teacher edition is almost identical. Also note that this is in a US English accent. We support UK English, Australian English, and Indian English accents as well.
Spelling Test Buddy has three plans to choose from.
(Turn on the plans you want to see in the table below.)
Basic | Teacher | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $39.99/year
$29.99/year On sale for a limited time1 | $599/year
$299/year On sale for a limited time |
| Core Features | |||
| Teacher logins | 1 | 1 | 30 |
| Word Lists | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Number of Students | Up to 20 | Up to 100 | Unlimited |
| Weekly Test Submissions | Up to 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Digital Tests that read the word and sentences aloud | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Instant graded results to Students | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Word Lists | |||
| Keep Lists Between School Years | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| List Creation | • Manual entry only | • PDF/photo upload • Our 420+ pre-made lists • Manual entry | • PDF/photo upload • Our 420+ pre-made lists • Manual entry |
| Build custom printable worksheets from your list | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Word Bank | (Coming soon) | (Coming soon) | |
| Collaborate on Word Lists, Students and Groups | (Coming soon) | (Coming soon) | |
| Reporting | |||
| Test Results Retention History | 7 days | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Create/print PDF of test results | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Export Data | (Coming soon) | (Coming soon) | |
| Common Errors Analysis | (Coming soon) | (Coming soon) | |
| School Dashboard | (Coming soon) | ||
| Integration | |||
| Google Classroom Sync | (Coming soon) | (Coming soon) | |
| Single Sign-On (SSO) | (Coming soon) | ||
| Start now! | Start free, then upgrade | Contact us | |
1 Teachers in countries outside of North America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand may have a lower price at checkout. Contact us to learn more.
Refund policy: because of the free Basic package that we offer, should you choose to purchase the Teacher Edition, we do not offer refunds.
You can distribute tests to your students by sending the entire class a single link, and each student a simple code. The browser remembers the code, so if you use individual devices, you should only need to distribute the code once. You can send the link to your students through Google Classroom, Seesaw, Blackboard, PowerSchool, and any other platform.
Yes! When you create a word list, Spelling Test Buddy generates an audio version of each word. It also generates a version of the word in a sentence, to provide context for the word. When your student takes the test, they can tap on the Play buttons to hear the word or the sentence being read aloud to them, then enter their answer.
Yes! You can change the accent of the words to match your country when you create your word list. We currently support the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and India.
Please see our pricing information above.
Yes! Our School Plan is designed for all teachers in a school to use Spelling Test Buddy. See our pricing information above, and please contact us to discuss more.
Yes. Spelling Test Buddy does not require you to enter an email address or even a full first or last name for your students. So, you can stay compliant with country, state, local, and district privacy laws and rules.
While Spelling Test Buddy can be used for any grade level, teachers in grades 3-12 have had the best success using it for their classrooms. We have also had intervention, English as Foreign Language, and adult learners use it.
Yes! When your student submits their test, your Reports page will immediately show you their results for that test. No need to ask them to walk their device up to your desk or call you over so you can check their results.
Yes! We’ve had schools use Spelling Test Buddy to run competitions. Please reach out to us to discuss size and special pricing.
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