Spelling and Vocabulary

Discover resources for teaching spelling and vocabulary at home.

Homeschool Spelling and Vocabulary Curriculum

A Reason For Spelling

Lessons teach high frequency base words, plus hundreds of other word forms. Weekly Scripture values-based stories set the theme and help make spelling FUN!

All About Spelling is a scripted, open-and-go program that teaches spelling in the most effective way possible. This award-winning seven-level program provides complete and comprehensive instruction using the Orton-Gillingham approach

Cozy Spelling

This is a 36-week, text-based curriculum with audio supplements that teaches the spelling of 600 words at the seventh-grade level.

Home Spelling Words

Home Spelling Words is the leading spelling website for high-quality spelling words and lists for Kindergarten through 9th grade.

Horizons Spelling and Vocabulary

Includes a colorful student workbook with 160 fun-filled, engaging lessons, user-friendly spelling dictionary with pronunciation guide, and comprehensive teacher’s guide.

How to Teach Any Child to Spell

If you happen to be a person with a strong visual memory you remember how words look. Poor spellers, however, can’t recall how a word should look. In How to Teach Any Child to Spell, Gayle Graham offers a simple solution to the problem: Pull the students’ own misspelled words from the context of their own writing.

Orthography Instruction

Word lists are organized by grade level, phonics patterns, Introduction words (pre-test), and Application words (post-test).

Phonetic Zoo

Looking for a new approach to spelling? This phonics-based program uses auditory input to ensure that the correct spelling of each word is absorbed by the brain.

Purposeful Design Spelling Plus

The Spelling Plus series for Grades 1-6 provides so much more than just spelling. It incorporates grammar, writing, genres of writing and literature, Greek and Latin roots and more.

Roots and Fruits

This is a comprehensive vocabulary curriculum by Jill J. Dixon. It’s unique for its use of English forms of 797 Greek and Latin roots and prefixes, making learning easier and retention stronger.

Sequential Spelling

Sequential Spelling is based on the classic Orton-Gillingham approach of multi-sensory instruction and follows the instructional focuses of Structured Literacy, including its focuses on phonology and sound-symbol association (our word families or rimes); syllable instruction and morphology.

Soaring With Spelling

Levels are based on a 36-week school year.

Spelling by Sound and Structure

Though the English language has many irregularities and phonetic exceptions, a good grasp of phonics aids correct spelling. The majority of consonant sounds and some vowel sounds are consistently indicated by the same letter. Other sounds have consistent spelling patterns according to position in a word or syllable.

Spelling for Success

Your children can learn to spell well and enjoy the process, with focused direct instruction and sentence dictation.

Spelling Power

Spelling Power has everything you need to teach spelling words and skills to your entire family to the college level. With Spelling Power, your children will master the 5,000 most frequently used words and key spelling principles at their own pace—in just 15 minutes a day—using research-proven strategies.

Spelling Safari

Spelling Safari is the first adaptive, mastery-based classroom app to personalize spelling for elementary students, maximize their learning growth, and save educators more than 100 hours per year.

Spelling Training

This free spelling website acts like an online computer program in which you create your own spelling lists, and have word games with your own words.

Spelling Wisdom

Learn today’s 6,000 most frequently used words presented in the writings of great men and women of history! Now you can have the confidence that you’re teaching the words your student needs to know, using the Charlotte Mason method of prepared dictation.

Spelling Words Well

Spelling Words Well offers a wide range of spelling word lists, spelling worksheets, spelling games, spelling bee words, along with many other activities to help you, your family members, or your students to improve spelling skills.

Spelling Workout

Based on a phonetic model, cross-curricular reading passages, high-interest writing activities, flexible lessons, and motivating activities, help Spelling Workout students move from simple sound-letter relationships to more complex spelling patterns.

Spelling You See

Get ready for a different kind of spelling lesson, with no tests, lists, or rote memorization. It’s a win-win for instructors and students. New to Spelling You See? Use the Checklist for Success to determine exactly what you need.

SpellingJoy

SpellingJoy offers the free spelling app kids actually want to use.

VocabClass

VocabClass is a fun interactive spelling & vocabulary program that rewards student effort and makes it easy for teachers, homeschoolers and parents to create, assign, assess, and manage word lists.

Vocabulary from Classical Roots

Ideal for students mastering a growing content-area vocabulary in social studies, science, literature, and mathematics – predominantly multisyllabic Greek- and Latin-based words.

VocabLoco

Vocab Loco is a K–12 online spelling and vocabulary program where students build word mastery and make words and lists stick for good.

VocabTest.com

Vocab Test.com offers you, the eager student ready to learn, free vocabulary tests, which are the best way to boost your verbal skills.

Vocabulary Quest®

Merging proven learning strategies with immersive gameplay, this course covers over 1,000 academic words across structured, grade-specific levels.

Vocabulary.com

Vocabulary.com offers play games and compete in activities on your own or with participants from around the globe. With our advanced teaching algorithm and study tools, get ready for your vocabulary to expand.