Targeted Instruction
Scoring and analyzing spelling errors by hand is so incredibly time consuming, often incomplete and too subjective. SPELL-2 does all the work for you, pinpoints where to begin word study instruction, and prescribes exactly what to teach.

About SPELL-2
Skills & Content
- Phonological awareness, including phoneme and syllable segmentation, and vowel discrimination
- Orthographic knowledge, including letter-sound relationships, letter patterns and spelling rules
- Morphological knowledge, including letter-meaning relationships of prefixes, suffixes, and word roots
- Semantic relationships, including relationships between base words, inflected words, and derived words
- Mental orthographic images of words and word parts stored in long-term memory.
Target Audience
SPELL-2 is appropriate for all Grade 2+ students who are struggling with reading decoding, reading fluency, spelling, writing, and vocabulary. SPELL-2 is also for Tier 2 & Tier 3 students, special education students, speech-language impaired students, ELL students,
Title I students, and students with dyslexia and dysgraphia.
Research & Resuilts
Criterion validity of SPELL
ASHA, 2006
Product Details
Format & Administration: Download software or access from flash drive; computer-administered assessment with minimal supervision required; Examiner’s Manual (PDF) included.
Response: keyboard entry (option for students to write responses on paper for keyboard entry by examiner) and mouse click.
Completion time: 30–60 minutes.
Ages/Grades: Grade 2–Adult.
Minimum System Requirements: Select a product code to view exact requirements.
*Not compatible with MAC OS; work-around options available; read website FAQs before purchasing.
Link assessment to intervention and devote instructional time only where it’s needed. SPELL-2 identifies the underlying language processes that are interfering with successful reading and spelling and automatically links a student’s assessment data to specific structured language instruction by listing the corresponding lesson number and word study activities in the SPELL-Links to Reading & Writing – Word Study Curriculum applicable for each instructional goal.
Detect oral and written language deficits often missed by other assessments. With SPELL-2, you obtain a deep, highly sensitive, and valid measure of a student’s word study knowledge and skills. The assessment software automatically and seamlessly adapts to a student’s responses, presenting test items that are uniquely tailored for the individual student.