2021 Round-up

Site Updates

All users can play our new spelling games. Help decode an enemy message in Codebreaker. Enter the temple and test your spelling skill in Mayan Temple.
All users can now personalise their profile by adding an avatar.
Students can now work their way from a Spelling Newbie to a Spelling Grandmaster by earning points.
A new on-page prompt will remind students to use the Learn the Words practice activities.
A new summary page will go over what has been taught in each unit.
Classes can now compete for the top spot in the new Classes League Table.
Contact us to organise a closed league for an LEA or Academy Trust.
Teachers can now set multiple activities in one task by choosing an activity then clicking on the + icon to add another.
Teachers can now monitor how confident students feel about each unit in the Results section.
Schools with a subscription of 250+ students can now use Wonde Data Sync.

Word Lists

There are over a million word lists on Spellzone. Every word list can be used in a variety of online and offline activities.
Each month in 2021, we shared 3 word lists for students to use when practising their spellings: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December.
This year, we also expanded our collection of Curriculum Word Lists with Tier 2 words, GCSE lists, NAPLAN lists, and Functional Skills in English lists.

Blog

In our new blog series, we explored American English words and their British English counterparts in various categories: clothes, driving, food, school, and shopping.
We added to our Commonly Confused Words series. This year we looked at: been vs. gone, board vs. bored, cent vs. scent vs. sent, maybe vs. may be, new vs. knew, and shore vs. sure.
We continued our 10 Words series by sharing synonyms for big, fast, funny, sad, said, and small. We looked at 10 pet names for Valentine’s Day and we created a list of our 10 Words blog posts from over the years.
As always, we shared plenty of tips:

In our Word for Wednesday series, we continued exploring the origin stories of English words. 2021’s themes were: colours, clothes, characters from Shakespeare’s plays, onomatopoeia, coffee, flowers, eponymous words, school, Halloween, fireworks, and festive decorations. Find all our Word for Wednesday posts in the blog archive.
Finally, as nobody knows what lies ahead in the coming year, we would like to remind you that we are always here to help!

Happy New Year!

31 Dec 2021
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