Simplex Spelling Phonics 24.0.0 - App Store

Scientifically validated as a highly effective approach to improving spelling skills. A published study revealed that students demonstrated an average spelling improvement of 1.9 grades among children in a classroom setting who regularly used Simplex Spelling over a 18 week period. The largest student improvement observed over the same time period was 4.4 grade levels as assessed by administering the Schonell Spelling Test.

Simplex Spelling is one of the best ways to improve English spelling and reading skills. Using a powerful combination of phonics lessons, spelling/word patterns, syllabication, our unique “reverse phonics” (phonics encoding) approach and contextually relevant spelling rules.

- "Simplex Spelling has a feedback method that rivals anything a teacher can do in the classroom. " - Carolina Nugent, Director of Education KinderTown.
- "No other literacy apps are this comprehensive." - Teachers With Apps
- "WOW!!!! I found my miracle app" - Speech Language Neighborhood
- Academics' Choice Award



Teaching over a year of spelling curriculum with more than 650 high frequency words divided into 54 lists that are organized by spelling patterns and difficulty levels. Each of the 54 lists comes with a lesson that teaches one of the basic building blocks of spelling in the English language. These basic building blocks include syllables, sounds, spelling rules and some of the more advanced English phonograms. 



Students learn a new concept for each lesson building on the skills learned from previous lessons and those covered in Simplex Spelling Phonics 1. Simplex Spelling Phonics 2 guides the student and acts as a personal spelling coach with every word, while teaching students "how to spell" English words. Our “reverse phonics” hint feature breaks each word down into individual phonemes to improve phonemic awareness, a critical skill in achieving literacy.

One of the main areas of focus in Simplex Spelling Phonics 2 is on syllables and how they affect the way we speak, read and spell. Every word is broken down into its syllables both visually and auditorily to help students build phonological awareness skills. Many lessons teach the concepts of open and closed syllables, compound words, the rules governing vowels in syllables and syllable stresses. The stress on each syllable is subtly conveyed with every word to help students understand how the stress on a syllable affects the way words are pronounced and spelled. The schwa sound and its occurrence in English words is also taught.



Recommended age 6+


Note: You can not create your own spelling lists.



Features: 

- Over 650 high frequency spelling words to help build literacy.
- Words are spoken and used in a sentence to establish context and improve vocabulary. 

- Introductory spelling list seamlessly leads a student through all of the application’s features.

- A starting assessment/placement test.
- Review lists to track learning progress.
- 54 instructional lessons teach syllables, phonics, phonograms, and spelling rules.

- A full “reverse phonics” approach that builds phonemic awareness.
- Contextually relevant spelling rule hints that help explain “how to spell” English words.

- Letter by letter feedback system provides feedback while the student is in the process of spelling each word. 

- Support for 40 user accounts.
- Export and email student progress reports. 


- Supports US, UK and Canadian English spelling of words.



Privacy Disclosure:

- Does not contain 3rd party ads 

- Does not share any data 

- Does not contain In-App purchases
- Contains child protected links to "email the developer questions" and developer's website for additional information, support and teaching tips.

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Version History Updated for iOS 26.3
Improved app design and layout.
Enhanced student progress feedback.
Minor bug fixes. 4.0.0 Apr 21 Updated for iOS 13.1
Fixed screen layout issues on some newer iPhone models running iOS 13.1. 3.6.1 10/12/2019 Updated for iOS 12. 3.5.2 02/03/2019 Updated for iOS 11. 3.5.1 11/13/2017 Major update includes:
- New assessment/placement mode helps determine the most appropriate starting list for each student.
- New randomly generated review/test sessions.
- Graphing data visualization for results of the new assessment & review modes.
- Updated for full future 64 bit support.

If you have any suggestions, please send us your feedback to ios.apps@pyxwise.com.
If you have found that Simplex Spelling has helped your student/child, please take the time to leave a review.
We really appreciate your feedback. :) 3.0.1 02/04/2016 Version 2.5.0 update includes :
- Updated for iOS8.
- Ability to now more easily delete old reports.
- Volume default adjusted and other improvements based on user feedback.
- Improvements to Introduction and GUI.
- New icon. 2.5.0 12/29/2014 - Fixed device rotation issue that occurred under iOS7.
- Optimized support for iPhone 5.
- Added the ability to export student progress reports (accessed from the email button on the Home menu).
- Added support for separate beginning /r/ sound and vowel controlled 'r' sounds.
- Improved some of the graphics.
- Improved the behavior of the backspace key to initially skip over correct letters.
- Keyboard now defaults to QWERTY (can be changed back to alphabetical in the settings menu).

- The app now prompts the user to adjust the app settings to their liking immediately upon creating a new user account.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Note : All syllable break issues were fixed in an update shortly after the initial app release.

Thank you everyone that took the time to send us your feedback. It has allowed us to keep improving Simplex Spelling.

Please email ios.apps@pyxwise.com with any suggestions and if you like Simplex Spelling please leave a rating to let others know how well Simplex Spelling worked for you (you can also email us, or leave a rating directly through the Simplex Spelling app by clicking on the info button on the top navigation bar of the home screen ). 2.0.0 09/25/2013 - Adjusted some syllable breaks to more closely follow rules of phonics (including the word clever). The syllabication approach used is specifically designed to teach spelling and reading skills, and in certain instances it may intentionally deviate from dictionaries. Please read the new in-app tips page for more information.
- Replaced some of the schwa words to instead use words that are less dependant on local dialects.
- Improved the organization of the n(ng) word lists.
- Added a few new spelling words.
- Added access to a "Tips" page from the main menu email/contact button.

Thank you everyone that took the time to send us your feedback. It has allowed us to keep improving Simplex Spelling.

Please email ios.apps@pyxwise.com with any suggestions and if you like Simplex Spelling please leave a rating to let others know how well Simplex Spelling worked for you (you can also email us, or leave a rating directly through the Simplex Spelling app by clicking on the email icon). 1.1.0 06/23/2012 1.0.0 05/22/2012