"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."
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 skill level, classroom, or other criteria. Assigning hundreds of students is easy.
Create 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.
Your students perform better because of the practice they received with Spelling Test Buddy. Their recall is improved and their confidence is up.
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.
Yes, Spelling Test Buddy is an app, and it’s also a website! It is not distributed through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store yet. But, you can easily add it to your students’ homescreen on Chromebooks, iPhone, iPad, Android, Samsung, and other phones, with just a few easy steps!
Spelling Test Buddy is free, currently. Those who sign up and use it now will be offered a perpetually discounted price when we eventually start charging for it.
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, intervention, and EFL programs.
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.
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