Mobile apps can serve as valuable tools to enhance the learning experience for primary school-age children, particularly when it comes to improving their spelling skills in an enjoyable and efficient manner. These apps can offer interactive and engaging activities that make learning spelling more appealing to young learners. Through features like word games, quizzes, and puzzles, children can actively participate in the learning process while having fun.
The apps provide a wide range of age-appropriate spelling exercises, allowing children to progress at their own pace and cater to their individual learning needs. By combining education with entertainment, they create an immersive and enjoyable learning environment, enabling primary school-age children to develop their spelling skills in a fun and efficient way.
Age: 5-11 years old
Price: £4.99
Download: Android | iPad
Aimed at 5-11 year olds to practise their spellings in a fun, motivating environment. It allows you to set up your own personalised spelling tests, as well as download from over 200 pre-recorded tests based on the UK National Curriculum, containing over 2000 words.
Price: web app – £5.40/month (or £32.50/year), mobile app – £2.99
Download: Android | iPad
Spelling game used by 2.5 million children worldwide. Designed by a team of teachers, it enables anyone to succeed with spelling & vocabulary and enjoy the process and makes spelling enjoyable, accessible, and achievable.
Age: 4-18 years old
Price: £6.99/month (or £49.99/year)
Download: Android | iPad
Suitable for 4–18 year olds, this app typically improves spelling scores by 70-150%. It features spelling animations, quizzes and puzzles to improve literacy with: spelling, vocabulary, homophones, etymology, rules, and patterns.
Age: 6-11 years old
Price: £9/month (or £66/year)
Download: N/A (access through a web browser)
Designed for 6-11 year olds, this app covers 5 years of literacy development from Year 1 to Year 6. There are 100s of lessons packed with videos, games and 1000s of printable worksheets and card games.
Age: 5-13 years old
Price: TBA
Download: TBA
The app encourages development of critical spelling awareness by engaging kids through an array of learning challenges: live spelling challenges, mastering wordlists, crosswords to introduce word meanings.
Age: 4-11 years old
Price: £0.99/month (or £10/year)
Download: Android | iPhone/iPad
Engaging educational programme designed to help children learn, while having fun along the way. All spellings are from the national curriculum and are surrounded by relevant sentences which provide the context.
