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The pronouncer's script and cards
The short answer: the pronouncer says the word, uses it in a sentence, and says the word again. The speller may ask for the word again, the sentence, the meaning or where it comes from, and the pronouncer answers from the card. Pick a list below: pronouncer mode shows each word big on your screen with its sentence, meaning and origin, and Right, Missed or Skip. The cards print eight to a page.
A pronouncer's script for a home or classroom bee
- Welcome the spellers. Say the rules once: listen, ask anything you need, spell the word out loud, letter by letter.
- Call the speller by their animal or seat number. Say the word clearly, at a normal speed.
- Say the sentence from the card, then say the word again.
- If they ask: say it again, give the meaning, say where it comes from, or say the sentence again. Read from the card; don't give hints.
- Let them spell. A judge (or you) says right or not quite, then the right spelling, kindly.
- In a gentle bee, a missed word means a turn out and back in next round. In a school-style bee, a miss is out. Decide before you start.
- Finish with everyone clapping for everyone.
Pick a list
- Your school's list · typed once on this device, then Pronouncer
- 1st grade · 176 words · 22 pages of cards
- 2nd grade · 219 words · 28 pages of cards
- 3rd grade · 226 words · 29 pages of cards
- 4th grade · 218 words · 28 pages of cards
- 5th grade · 215 words · 27 pages of cards
- 6th grade · 215 words · 27 pages of cards
- 7th grade · 85 words · 11 pages of cards
- 8th grade · 91 words · 12 pages of cards
- Silent letters · 76 words · 10 pages of cards
- Double letters · 155 words · 20 pages of cards
- ie and ei · 39 words · 5 pages of cards
- Homophones · 62 words · 8 pages of cards
- tion and sion · 53 words · 7 pages of cards
- Greek roots · 90 words · 12 pages of cards
- Latin roots · 146 words · 19 pages of cards
- Words from French · 49 words · 7 pages of cards
- Compound words · 50 words · 7 pages of cards
- Tricky plurals · 61 words · 8 pages of cards
- Schwa words · 81 words · 11 pages of cards
- Vowel teams · 103 words · 13 pages of cards
- Prefixes · 59 words · 8 pages of cards
- Suffixes · 96 words · 12 pages of cards
- Bossy r · 36 words · 5 pages of cards
- Magic e · 40 words · 5 pages of cards
- Soft c and g, dge and tch · 34 words · 5 pages of cards
- Adding ed and ing · 59 words · 8 pages of cards
What Right and Missed do
Right counts the same as a first-try tap in Bee Practice, and Missed the same as a miss, in the pile kept on this device. So a word spelled right twice out loud is spelled for good there too, and a missed one comes back sooner when your child practises. Skip leaves the word as it was. Nothing is sent.