Word Wizard - Spelling Tests

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About this app

Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review
140,000 Units Sold to Schools!

Want to teach your kids to read or spell words? Word Wizard offers several unique reading and spelling activities for children ages 4 to 10:

• A talking Movable Alphabet that allows young kids to experiment with phonics and learn word building thanks to the advanced text to speech engine.
• 3 activities to learn to spell that increase in difficulty
• 184 built-in word lists (about 1800 words)
• Add your own words to create unique spelling tests
• Keep tabs on your children’s progress with detailed reports

• Used in US Schools (100K units sold to primary schools & preschools)
• Winner of a Parents’ Choice Award
• Featured in the The New York Times & Wired's GeekDad
• More than 280K units sold!

Talking Movable Alphabet Activity
The talking movable alphabet has been recognized by many teachers as a wonderful tool to teach kids word building and how to learn to read

• Pronounce any word, number or sentence built using the Movable Alphabet
• Natural Sounding US Voice
• Letter sound (phonics) or name when a letter is touched in the alphabet
• Alphabetic or Qwerty Keyboard
• 4 keyboards available: letters, numbers, consonant digraphs (like “th”) and vowels digraphs (like “oo”)
• Uppercase or lowercase letters
• Voice Transformer (speed and tone) for added fun
• Customized word pronunciation, if necessary
• Keyboard emulation option (dragging letters is optional)

3 Fun Spelling Activities
3 spelling activities of increasing difficulty are provided to adapt the activity to the child’s spelling level. You can use the built-in word lists, or create your own.

1 - "Word Practice" says and displays the word to spell, and asks the child to spell it using the talking movable alphabet allowing the child to learn the spelling easily
2 - "Scrambled Letters" says the word and displays the letters needed to build the word or sentence, and asks the child to reorder the letters.
3 - “Spelling Quizzes” is a standard spelling test. The app won’t move onto the next word until the child has correctly spelled the word, helping them to remember its correct spelling.

• 184 built-in word lists of 10 words: Words for beginners, Dolch Words (sight words), 1,000 most frequently used words, body parts and more
• Create custom Word Lists by entering your own words and sentences
• Import and export Word Lists you’ve created
• Hints are available should kids not know how to spell a word
• Colorful animations are displayed when a word is completed
• Once a quiz is completed, interactive animations are available as a reward

Users & Reports
• Unlimited number of users
• Detailed Spelling Test Reports per user

More Accolades
• The New-York Times
"This is an important breakthrough in reading instruction, [...] every letter can be a building block of phonetically accurate sound"

• Children's Technology Review
Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - 4.8 stars out of 5 - "Turn your iPad into a talking alphabet/language generator - and the perfect tool for a child just starting to experiment with letters and their sounds"

• Wired's GeekDad
"This is a fantastic app for young children, right through to children in later elementary school which makes it an app worth having on your iPad."

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Ratings and reviews

Cost money if you want to continue after trial. Able to play offline. Literally perfect for what I needed. Learning to spell words! LOVE that you can free style and learn with talking movable alphabet. It is so fun, have not got tired of it yet. Also gives words to spell, in word practice. Scrambled letters is so cute. Spelling quizzes you spell the words they say. There are word lists provided or you can work from your own. Also option to choose from alphabet line up or qwerty keyboard.

I have to keep restoring the app for it to work on my phone (android) or my child's chromebook. I paid for the one time subscription, and when it does load properly it constantly freezes which is frustrating for my child as well as me. With homeschooling, I thought this would be a great addition to practice spelling words. Unfortunately, this is not an application I would recommend to anyone.

Completely locked from the start. Downloaded a handful of apps a couple weeks ago for my son and we are slowly working our way through them to see which ones we like. Hadn't even tried this one yet so it was either locked with no way to even see how it works, or was a timed trial that we didn't get to use. Either way I'm not buying an app I can't even try.

What's new

Possibility to have an animation between each word
Option to display vowels in blue and consonants in red
Script font update
Ability to import files via urls
Bug fixes