Dr. Aardsma's Spelling Drill
Educational software for building solid spelling skills.
Good spelling skills are important for success in school, and in many areas of life, yet many students struggle with spelling. Dr. Aardsma's Spelling Drill is computer software that teaches spelling through daily drills given by your computer - better spelling skills for your students and big time savings for you.
Dr. Aardsma's Spelling Drill automatically tailors each drill to the unique needs of the individual student - spending more time on his or her weak areas. It reinforces quick recall by setting speed expectations based on each student's own past performance. Dr. Aardsma's Spelling Drill also teaches vocabulary - each word is given in context in a meaningful sentence.
Product Highlights
- Designed by Gerald E. Aardsma, Ph.D., developer of Dr. Aardsma's Math Drill
- A time-saving utility, not a time-wasting game
- Gives drills in a real, human voice
- Drills nearly 8,000 spelling words in grades 1 through 6
- Accepts any number of students
- Compatible word lists included for most major publishers curricula
- Requires Windows (95, 98, 2000, ME, or XP), a CD-ROM drive, sound card, and speakers. Runs from the CD (10 MB free space required) or your computer's hard drive (up to 625 MB free space required).
- Easy to install, easy to use, unlimited expert telephone support
- Prints a progress report at the end of each drill showing the student name, date, time, score for that day (as a percent out of 100), a list of today's words, and a list of words the student may want to practice for tomorrow's drill.
Choosing a Grade Level.
Dr. Aardsma's Spelling Drill comes in six difficulty levels. There are two levels on each CD. Here's a sample of words from each grade level to help you choose the level that's appropriate for you student(s).
| Grade | Sample Words
(Click a word to hear how it sounds in our software.) |
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| 1 | shake, snack, snake, task, they, bass, bat, bet |
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| 2 | rained, rested, road, roast, soak, spilled, talked, toad, toast |
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| 3 | workmen, alpine, driver, dynamite, finally, fireside, islander, ivory, lie, lifeboat |
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| 4 | communist, coziness, federal, fluoride, grief, likelihood, pheasant, phony, wharf |
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| 5 | retriever, salamander, siamese, congregation, foolishness, inauguration, meaningful, newscaster |
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| 6 | graphite, hydraulic, hydroplane, inequality, locality, neutrality, priority, prosperity |
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