SPELL User Reviews

Name: SPELL-Links WordUP!
Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

SPELL-Links WordUP!

Learning By Design, Inc.

🎮 Games

📚 Education

📝 Word

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School SLP

There are so many times when my sessions are cut short because of all the folderol in the school schedules that I use WordUP! as my back-up plan for students working on anything. It's nice to have a set of grade-level words to utilize at the flick of a...well not a switch but a virtual dial.For my students working on speech sound disorders, WordUP! is usually a part of the therapy plan.

Disappointed2029

2 years ago

My Students & Parents Love WordUp!

I have been using SPELL-Links Word Up! iPad App for over five years and I’m excited to report that my students and parents love SPELL-Links WordUp! I use the WordUp! games at the beginning of sessions and as a quick learning break during our sessions. It’s great for homework. I have parents who are second language learners who have let me know that the games help them as they work with their children. These games build the student’s confidence and provide repeated exposures to sounds and letter patterns in words that they are working on and a great review of what they learned during the school year. It’s an excellent fun way to have some summer review and new learning. My students love to challenge themselves by working on sounds and letter patterns in upper grades and multisyllabic words.

susanbgood

2 years ago

Great warm-up activity

As an SLP, this app has been a wonderful, quick, start to my early literacy-based sessions. My first grade students are quickly engaged with the simplicity of the app (they learned the buttons/options quickly), and they cheer each other when they get an answer right. My older students are even willing to give it a try. I have noticed progress with their auditory perception of sounds and their ability to link sounds and letters. Great app!

panglossiancynic

8 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review! We are thrilled to hear that you are finding ways to use SPELL-Links WordUP! in a variety of ways with your students.

Spelling skills booster

I wanted a game for the iPad to boost my son's spelling skills. This app is different than other apps we've tried because it makes my son hear a sound and then pick what letter(s) spell that sound. We have fun with this app and love the sound effects.

Mrjpinkck

8 years ago

Response from developer

We are glad you found WordUP! Thank you for taking time to review the app.

Great Practice!

This is a great tool for my students to practice their word level reading and apply what they know about allowable spellings. It's a fun way for them to really think about how words are spelled. I use this at the end of our tutoring sessions and like that I can customize the words for all the different ages and levels of kids who come to our center for tutoring.

K-8 tutor

9 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for purchasing the WordUP! app. We are glad you are having fun using it with your students!

Buyer beware

This app is misleading and the buyer isn't given enough information before purchase. The child must be able to read many different words and only struggle with the spelling of words. I would not use this with kids under the age of 8. I don't find the app all that exciting for kids. The child can just click on any letter & pretend to read the word, and there is nothing to teach the student if they continually miss the answer. There is no data or feedback for the adult if the child works independently. I expected a lot more from this company and wish I had not spent $20.00! Too expensive for what you get.

QBinRI

10 years ago

Response from developer

Dear QBinRI, Our WordUP! app was designed to be both a review/application tool and one that can be used with a teacher or parent to provide instruction in and the discovery of allowable spellings for the sounds in English. At the application level, students would be expected to be able to read the words that are visually presented and then select the letter or letters that are working in that word to create the chosen target sound. The words that the student will read can be chosen by target sound, number of syllables, vocabulary level and commonality. We have found that this gives everyone from our youngest to our more advanced learners plenty of opportunity for appropriately leveled practice and application. We recently offered a live demo of the app through our SPELL-Link’d online learning community and will have a video on our website soon. Of course, this app is intended to enhance, not replace purposeful word study instruction and we hope that you’ll be able to connect with a video demonstration to find the best way to leverage the app for your learner(s).