Benefits

CAL Tutor saves time, increases productivity and raises achievement!

Time Is Saved with Automated Spelling Tests. Unaided, computerized spelling drills are available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Automated testing allows a parent, teacher or coach to spend their time on other activities.
Time is Saved when Spelling Words are Electronically Included. A parent, student, teacher or coach doesn’t need to take the time to create study lists and make copies for distribution. They can spend their time on other activities.
Time is Saved when the CAL Tutor Instantly Reconfigures Alphabetical Spelling Lists into Lists designed to Meet a Study Strategy. A parent, teacher or coach saves time by using CAL Tutor to create specialized lists.
Productivity Increases with Automated Spelling Tests. Since automated testing increases the number of tests taken per hour, students are more productive.
Productivity Increases when Students Work at Their Own Pace. Computerized drills let students take spelling tests whenever they have the time (no dependency on other people). The result is more tests per day.
Vocabulary Achievement Rises when Definitions Are Displayed. Students increase their vocabulary by associating a displayed definition and sentence with a spelling word.
Spelling Achievement Rises by Isolating Misspelled Words. By using the computer to track misspelled words, students can focus their energy on the words that they frequently misspell. Focused misspelled-word testing help students master difficult words faster.
Spelling Achievement Rises with Correct Word Pronunciation. Teachers, coaches and parents do not always know the correct pronunciation for spelling words. The prerecorded spelling words and a built-in Internet link to the Merriam-Webster dictionary ensure an accurate spelling-word pronunciation.
Spelling Achievement Rises when Spell Bowl Lists Are Randomized. Randomizing an alphabetically-sequenced list challenges a student not to rely on that word’s alphabetic placement.
Spelling Achievement Rises when Definitions Are Displayed. Since CAL provides a definition and sentence for each word, Spell Bowl contestants are more likely to recognize a spelling word by relating the word to its definition.
Spelling Achievement Rises when Alphabetical List are Reconfigured to Match the Study Strategy. By using CAL Tutor to reconfigure alphabetic spelling lists into specialized lists by difficulty, size of the word, capitalized words, hyphenated words, words starting with “kn”, words with embedded “ei” and so on, spelling achievement increases.