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Amerigo's spelling system
And, interestingly, while there are computer games for virtually every other aspect of gradeschool education, there weren't ANY in the US for spelling.
Ma'am your daughter is a prodigy. Clearly the apple did not fall far from the tree.
No but there are lots of programs for learning typing, which is the same as learning spelling, because if the word is spelled wrong you are gonged.
I would be happy to design a computer game to assist correct spelling for kiddies. Mistakes would be rewarded with punishments of increasing intensity for refractory errors, such as writing out the word 500 times.
Three strikes and you have to hand copy Psalm 119 with no errors.
It works. I am living evidence.