Throughout the progression, new and more advanced concepts/skills are delicately intertwined within the review. At the beginning of each grade level, there is an intentional spiral review of previously taught skills, but they also include words of increasing difficulty. The progression covers a range of phonics skills, high-frequency words, and morphological awareness, typically addressed in each grade level. The Spelling Shed lists were developed by applying the Science of Reading research and follow a systematic progression.

In addition to this unique feature, we also still have the option to spell letter by letter. This encoding process helps to map graphemes in spellings to phonemes in pronunciations, stores words in long-term memory, strengthens the ability to decode new, unfamiliar words, and develops automaticity. One unique feature of our games is that it allows students to build and spell words with graphemes. Finally at the “Extreme” level they receive almost no support and are provided a full keyboard of letter tiles. As the child progresses through each level the amount of support they receive will become less and less. Students will only be provided the letter tiles that make up the word. Students will hear and see the word prior to playing the game. The “Easy” level provides the child with the highest degree of support. Our spelling games provide differentiation and allow students to practice with just the right amount of support. We have a variety of engaging games designed to promote word inquiry, increase word study skills, build and utilize grapheme-phoneme correspondence, enhance morphological awareness, and expand vocabulary acquisition.