Spelling Bee

What your child will figure out

• Listen to a hidden word in a sentence and build its spelling from shuffled letter tiles.
• Use sound order, letter teams, and quiet-letter patterns to revise a miss without seeing the answer.
• Explain a spelling strategy after observing the correctly built word.
• Transfer listening and pattern-checking to new generated words while missed words return for spaced review.

The levels

1. Catch every sound

   Predict and build sun from three ordered sounds, observe the complete word, and explain sound-by-sound spelling.

2. Spot a letter team

   Build ship, observe that s and h work together, and explain that two letters can share one sound.

3. Keep the quiet letter

   Build cake, observe the final quiet e, and explain why unheard letters can still belong in a spelling.

4. Garden gate transfer

   Transfer listening, ordering, and tricky-pattern checking to the novel word night without seeing it first.