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Do you want to get spelling bee training for winning the spelling competition? Of course, everyone wants to win the spelling bee, and that’s why the importance of official training and preparation cannot be denied.

Hello parents and teachers! Are you looking for a platform that provides spelling bee training to your kid? Then this article is for you! Here we offer you the best app for spelling bee training. After knowing the interesting features of this app, you will surely want to get training from here. Furthermore, students can use this app to take words list and training for the spelling bee.

This educational app is Spelling bee ninja (SBN), beneficial for spelling bee training. You may think there are plenty of apps/ platforms for preparation and training of spelling words, then why we should use SBN. Well! Let’s discuss its primary features that will help you decide; whether I should get training from this app or not.

 Official Spelling tests with Words List

SBN offers to take official spelling bee tests as much as you want to prepare you for the spelling bee competition. Here you get spelling bee words lists according to grades, which will help you excel in your classroom activities. Spelling tests and spelling words list both assure you the success in spelling or vocabulary competition.

 Smart Way of Spelling Tests

SBN keeps record of your past tests that you have taken and also those that you misspelled. This feature is exceedingly helpful in reviewing your knowledge. Here you have a “Smart training learn” option to choose a new word of your grade. Here you will also get the word you misspelled in the past.
A “Smart training review” section is available here, where you can take spelling tests that you may learn already.

 Custom Spelling Tests

Unofficial spelling tests with custom-created lists are available. You can import the spelling lists from any other source for taking unofficial tests.

 Create Your Word List

Using spelling bee ninja, one can create a spelling bee words list that may help to retain the words.

You can turn every list in pdf documents containing the list in tabular forms or as flashcard ready to be printed.

Get Information for Every Single Word

Spelling bee ninja contains the information for every single word according to grade. The more you take the test here, the more you will know the hard words. Here SBN defines the word difficulty level according to the kid’s age.

Words Pronunciation

SBN offers you the letter by letter, English pronunciation of each word. The pronunciations list helps you to spell each word correctly.

Along with pronunciation the word card reports the following data:

• Definitions
• Anagrams
• Synonyms
• Antonyms

 Error list

SBN also contains an “Error list” section for all the misspelled words that you may misspell while taking your word spelling test. This list may help you train you for spelling bee by reviewing your words list.

 Report Cards

SBN contains report cards after every spelling test that keeps your record, scores, percentage, school world ranking, and even the misspelled words in the error list. These report cards help you to analyze your performance. You can get further training after evaluating your previous performance.

Certificate of Achievements For Top Spellers

Having a high score on the official spelling bee test awards you a certificate of achievement.  Moreover, all the scores of students according to their grades are recorded in world spelling bee world rankings.

Thus, from all these features, it is clear that getting spelling bee training with SBN makes you a words master. If you’re holding a spelling bee competition, SBN is the best option for preparation. SBN provides a words list with training that makes you a words champion.

To get this and much more just subscribe free to our web app following this signup link

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5^th graders (10 years old) are at the stage where soon they will explore the middle school curriculum. They must master the 5^th-grade spelling bee words list to become independent learners.

In the USA, 5^th graders are in the last year of their elementary school, and even in some schools, they are in the first year of middle school. Thus, at this stage, the students face difficulty in reading comprehension because till 4th grade, they learn easy words.

5th- Grade Spelling bee: Spelling bee ninja

By noticing the student’s issue regarding reading comprehension, spelling bee ninja prepares the 5^th-grade spelling bee words list to eliminate their anxiety regarding new words.

If you’re parents or teachers who want to get new words to use in 5^th-grade classroom activities, then the list is for you. Also, the students of 5^th grade should learn this list to make themselves independent learners.  However, We know fifth graders have skills gained from previous sections, but they have to lay a solid foundation for the years ahead. That’s why the 5th-grade spelling bee words list is arranged for you to get easy reading skills.

 Compound Words list for 5^th Grade

For the 5th-grade spelling bee, we have arranged the compound words list. Moreover, we also have spelling word lists for 4^th grade, which you can get that list as well to retain previous words.

Furthermore, we have arranged one more list of 5^th grade Math, Science, Literature spelling lists. You can also get an eBook to win a spelling bee competition.

On the whole, these are the spelling words that a fifth grader should know to excel in spelling competitions.

Additionally, these lists may contain some comprehended words, but 5^th grade should know those to win the spelling bee.  That’s why here we arranged the definitions of a few challenging words. You can understand the context and meaning of difficult words from here:

Use this list with Spelling Bee Ninja

You can use the words of this list within our app, just click the icon below to access the list for training, flashcards, tests and all the features SBN offers to get prepared to win the next spelling bee.

Furthermore, you can get more definitions of hard words from the other 5^th-grade spelling bee list.

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Spelling test is one of the main features offered by Spelling Bee Ninja for spelling bee training.

Types of Spelling Test

Spelling Bee Ninja features a text to speech enabled module that can provide students with four different kind of spelling tests using natural English pronunciation, in particular:

• Official Tests.
• Personal tests.
• Learning Smart tests.
• Review Smart Tests.

Read this and the following paragraphs to understand the characteristics of each kind of test.

You can reach the spelling test app by choosing “Spelling Test” from the main menu, or the Spelling test button in any spelling words list page or from the Student or Student statistics page, once the app is loaded, the Spelling Test option dialog will appear:

Spelling test options

Let’s see the test options one by one:

Student
Select here the student that is going to take the test, as some SBN accounts allows more than one student.
In case you have a basic or student account, only one student will be present in the list.

Words per test
Choose here how many words you want for this spelling test, the app allows 10, 15 or 20 words per test, the default and suggested value is 10 when learning new words, but you can use more words if you are taking review tests (I.e. using words that you already know).

Words Source
Through this option you can choose which spelling list use for the test, among the ones you created or imported, to know more about spelling lists, documentation related to spelling lists handling.

The first three options however are handled by the system, in particular:

• Official Spelling test: take an Official Spelling Test, refer to the paragraph below to learn more about Official tests.
• Smart Training (Learn): take a spelling test provided by the Smart Training algorithm in learning mode, to learn new words and fix your errors (see smart training documentation).
• Smart Training (Review): take a spelling test provided by the Smart Training algorithm in review mode, to verify the words you learned (see smart training documentation).
• Personal Tests: after the first three options handled by the system, you will find your own spelling lists sorted alphabetically, spelling tests taken using a custom spelling list are referred as Personal Spelling Tests.

Difficulty
Choose standard if you want the test to use words suitable for your grade, hard if you want some words from higher grades and harder if you want even more hard words (the harder the level the higher your potential score in Official Tests).

Repeat Policy
Select here whether you want to allow the repetition of the words or not.
Possible values are from zero (no repeats allowed) up to unlimited repetitions per word, we suggest you to allow repetitions when learning new words and take tests with no repetition when reviewing.

When taking Official Spelling tests, fewer repetitions allows you to reach higher scores.

Allow Word Definition
Choose Yes if you want to activate the word definition feature during test. This feature allows the student to check the word definition before giving the answer. Using this feature is recommended when learning new words

Taking the spelling test

After choosing all your options accordingly to your needs, press the “Start Test” button to begin your Spelling Test.

The app voice will invite you to press the Next Word button (or enter key on your keyboard) to proceed with net word.

On the left side you will find some useful information related to the ongoing test: test type, words to go, repeat calls, last spelled word, difficulty level and elapsed time for this test.

During the test you can use the following commands to proceed:

• Answer field: a text field where you have to correctly type the current word pronounced by the app.
• Play button: right on the left side of the answer field, also activated by the enter keyword, submits the content of the answer field as your answer.
• Next Word: also activated by the enter key, will spell the next word of the test.
• Repeat: if repeat is allowed for this test, it will repeat the current word and increase the repeat counter by one.
• Skip: use this button to skip the current word, in case you have no clues on how to spell it.
• Define: this button will pop up a dialog showing the current word definition, of course the word itself will be hidden in the definition window.
• Quit test: quit this test and do not collect the related statistics into your account.

Go through all the words from the pronouncer until the test is finished.

Report Cards

Once a spelling test is finished, Spelling Bee Ninja will update the information associated to the student accordingly with test results, the errors list is updated and the system assumes the student has learned the words spelled correctly during test.

A report card is generated and added to the other tests results by the same student, a dialog will appear giving the possibility to review your results immediately.

Report cards for a given students are accessible from the student’s profile by clicking the “Report Cards” button.
The report card contains your test results and score, on this page you will find, among the others the following metrics: correct and misspelled words, skipped words, number of times the student asked the repetition of the words, total test time and total score.
Also, a list of the words used in the test is reported and the corresponding answers given by the student; the misspelled words are reported in red using a strike font.

The total score is calculated using the official scoring system; check the related  paragraph below in this article for further information.

Student statistics

Each student has a statistics page containing statistics about spelling bee training activities, reach out the statistics page from the student card, by clicking the “Statistics” button.

This page shows the number of tests taken by the student, the number of correct and misspelled words, the correctness percentage for each type of test (Personal, Official, Smart Learn and Smart Review) and other useful information.

Also, from the statistic page is possible to reset the data acquired by the smart trainer for this student, this function is used when a student wants to restart a training cycle.

Error List

Words misspelled by the student during tests are collected in a special words list called Error List, accessible from the student’s profile page by clicking the “Error List” button.

Even though some editing operations are allowed (such as removing words), the Error list is automatically handled by the system, the (automatically) added misspelled words are automatically removed once spelled correctly in a spelling test.

Eventually it is possible to use the whole error List for a spelling test using the “Spelling Test” button from the page, but our suggestion is to take Smart Tests and let SBN decide which words are the best choice to fix your errors.

Official Spelling Tests

An Official Spelling test is a spelling test taken using SBN Official Dictionary as words source.  

Words used for the test are taken from the official SBN words database containing thousands of words for each difficulty level. 

SBN is well aware of the difficulty level of the words used in this case, so the spelling test is considered official. 

An accolade icon on the left of the page, under the Test Type label will indicate that the ongoing has to be considered official. 

Official Tests will lead to official scores and are recorded among the Spelling Bee Ninja world rankings. 

If a very high score is reached in an official test, SBN could release on official certificate of achievement. 

Rankings and Certificates of Achievement

Official scores are calculated using a dedicated scoring system named SNJFIX1, check in the paragraph below the details on how the scoring system works. 

The main factors considered when calculating an Official Spelling Test score are in general: 

• Correct answers / misspelled words ratio 
• The difficulty level set in the test options (standard/hard/harder) 
• The number of words  
• Repetitions count 
• Word definition coun 

As specified in the scoring system specification, the maximum score a student can reach is 1100 for students of every grade.  

Also, remember that the spelling test time, although registered by SBN and reported in the report cards, is not considered for final score calculation, this is because in Spelling Bee competitions, usually, students are not requested to give the answer in the shortest time. 

Giving the answer quickly often leads to errors and taking the right time to think about the answer way more important than speed to master spelling bee. 

Students achieving a score equal or higher than 800 are rewarded with an official Spelling Bee Ninja Certificate, check the image below to have an idea of how it looks like: 

Each certificate has its own serial number and unique internet address, delivered under the form of high-resolution graphic files, ready to be printed, saved on local drive or shared with friends.

Only the owner of the account can access to the certificate file from the related report card page. 

Official scores are registered in the Spelling Bee Ninja world rankings.

Ranking pages are public and accessible through the “Rankings” link in the top menu of the app. 

Rankings are grouped by difficulty level: one to eight correspond to the respective school grade, then comes high school chart and a world top 100 regardless the grade. 

If a school has been specified specified in the account, the school rankings will be also available at the bottom of each chart so students from the same school can compete and have their own school rankings. 

How Official Spelling Test score is calculated

Official scores can lead to publishing and awards.
Let’s analyze more in depth the scoring system actually in use on Spelling Bee Ninja.

The code name of the scoring standard is “SNJFIX1” (Acronym for Spelling Bee Ninja Fixed Version 1).

It is a fixed scoring system. This means that, as for school grades, there is a maximum score that cannot be exceeded.
The maximum score achievable with SNJFIX1 is 1100 (One thousand one hundred).

The time taken to complete the test is not considered by the system: no matter if the spelling training session will take 10 minutes or one hour for the student to complete, this is because stress is not a good friend when learning.

There is a penalty for misspelled words and skipped words.
A skipped word is not considered as bad as a misspelled one but skipping words will limit bonus points (this to encourage the student to try hard to understand and also because a misspelled word is easier to remember than a skipped one).

Out of a total of 1100 points achievable, 800 are determined by the percentage of correct words (or correctness factor), So this means that spelling correctly all the words proposed by the test will earn 800 points.

The 300 remaining points are shared between Execution Factor (max 180 points) and Courage Factor (max 120 points).

Execution Factor assigns more points when the spelling session has been completed in the cleanest possible way (ie using the least possible aids like definition, repeat etc.)

Courage Factor gives more points when the spelling test options are set to higher difficulty (No definitions, no repeat, longer spelling words list, Harder difficulty).

Both these factor offers a further bonus when the limit is reached (maximum execution factor reached and maximum courage factor reached).

Please note that a higher courage factor increases the risks of committing errors during the test, losing points eventually brought by the correctness factor and the execution factor.

Each misspelled word will cause a penalty of 33 points.

Here follows the pseudo code algorithm used by SNJFIX1. 
note: in the following notation += means incrementing the variable by the value that follows example x+=3 means x = x+ 3.

correctnessFactor = corectPercentage * 8; //max800
executionFactor= 0; //Max 180
if(noWrongAnswers == 0 noSkippedWords == 0)executionFactor+= 40;
if(neverAskedRepeat )executionFactor+= 40;
if(neverAskedDefinition )executionFactor+= 40;
if(executionFactor== 120)executionFactor+=60;
courageFactor= 0; //Max 120
if difficultyStandard:courageFactor+=10;else
if difficultyHard:courageFactor+=20; else
if difficultyHarder:courageFactor+=30; else
if unlimitedRepeats:courageFactor+=0;
if repeatMax3:courageFactor+=10; else
if repeatMax2:courageFactor+=20; else
if repeatMax1:courageFactor+=25; else
if noRepeat:courageFactor+=30;
if 10Words:courageFactor+=10; else
if 15Words:courageFactor+=20; else
if 20Words:courageFactor+=30;
//zero aid bonus
if(courageFactor == 90)courageFactor+=30;
wrongFactor = 33 * wrongAnswers;
FINAL_SCORE= correctnessFactor +executionFactor+courageFactor-wrongFactor 

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Spelling Bee Ninja (SBN for short) is a computer software designed to help students from all over the world in preparing for Spelling Bee Competitions.

It is the first professional system for Spelling Bee training.
A powerful system offering unique features and providing a very effective method to boost spelling skills very quickly.

Spelling Bee Ninja is a software deployed to public as a web application, you can use it at the following address: https://www.spellingbee.ninja/app  using a desktop  computer or a laptop or a tablet.
This article will teach how to create a free account to start using SBN.
The aim of SBN is to help students in training for Spelling Bee maximizing results and minimizing the time dedicated to study, so to get super prepared in the fastest possible way.

Spelling Bee Ninja is a web based system, constantly improved and updated, maybe some information or images on these pages could result (for short periods of time), slightly different  from the actual system, anyways the core of the system and the training process is well defined so you won’t find any difficulty to adapt the information on these pages to the latest release.

We built SBN because despite Spelling Bee is gaining more and more attention every year, there was not automated system that addressed the problem of spelling bee preparation in a professional way, that is why SBN is one of its kind and we believe is a really useful system for all the students willing to master Spelling Bee Competitions.  

How does  SBN work?

Let’s have brief overview of the principles behind the SBN system, so you can get you an idea on how the system works and the potential of using it.
Spelling Bee Ninja relies on a server-side database containing all the English words, an initial difficulty level is associated to each word so the system can provide spelling tests using words lists compatible with the student grade/level.
When a student finishes a spelling test, the system gets the related data, learning something new about the student, among the other: the words spelled correctly, the misspelled ones, how long did it take to give answers and so on; the data is also related with other variables, such as student’s nationality, the type of school attended and many other parameters.   

SBN remembers the misspelled words and the correctly spelled ones for the specific student, so it can provide proper words sets for future spelling tests (Smart training feature).

SBN collects Spelling Bee related data for every single English word, becoming more and more precise and aware as more students use its features. 
The data is then used to bring powerful features to users, such as Smart Training and the Spelling Search Engine. 

Start Using Spelling Bee Ninja

To start working with Spelling Bee Ninja you need a computer (either desktop/laptop/notebook or a tablet) connected to the Internet, let’s start by creating an account. 

Creating your account

To create an account, point your browser to https://www.spellingbee.ninja/app
and choose Register, fill in the form providing the requested info, if you want to team up or compete with your schoolmates don’t forget to set your school, check the related documentation for further information.
If you are registering as invited student, using an invitation code from your teacher, click the “I have an invitation code” link and enter your code.  Confirm your data by clicking the “Sign Up” button. 

You will be redirected to the app homepage. 

Managing your account  

Once you are logged in, you will have a menu on the top right of the screen labeled with your username.
You can access and control your account by choosing “My Account” from that menu. 
 

From this page you can change your account settings by pressing the “Edit” button, in particular you can set your account  username, email, country, school, and whether you like to receive news from spelling bee ninja or not. 

Set your school

If you are a student or a teacher from a school, it’s a good idea to set your school in your Spelling Bee account. 
Setting your school will give you access to a special top spellers chart completely dedicated to your school. 
The school ranking chart will contain official spelling test results only by student from your school and will then allow you to compete against your classmates and follow class and school spelling bee tournaments.
To enable this feature, you have to setup your school in your account, from your account page click the “Set school” link, the following dialog will pop up:

Spelling Bee Ninja contains a database of thousands of schools around the world, mainly international schools.
To check if your school is already in the SBN database, select the “Search your School” text field, start typing the name of your school and see if it appears in the list.
In case your school is already in SBN database, just select it and press “Ok”, otherwise in the bottom part of the dialog you have the possibility to tell about your school, specifying your name, country and city; the data will be sent to SBN staff that will verify the data and add the school to the database as soon as possible.  

Reset your password 

Just in case you forget your password or your username, use the link “Request password reset” from the login page or from your account page if logged (in case you want to change your password), you will be requested to enter either the email address you used to create the account or your username, click the confirmation button. An email will be sent to you containing a special link to enter a new password for your account. 

Free and paid features

Spelling Bee Ninja offers free features and more advanced features that comes at a tiny fee, for instance if you are a teacher you could be interested in the classroom account that to handle up to 30 students.
Once you created your profile you can eventually upgrade your account to a more powerful one, check the https://www.spellingbee.ninja/plans page to see which features are offered by the different plans and prices.
If you choose to buy a plan, right after payment you will receive a redeem code via email.
To activate your plan please refer to the instruction contained in the next paragraph. 

Redeem your code 

If you obtained an upgrade code for your plan to unlock advanced features, you have to activate it under your account using the redeem code you received via email.
To activate your plan, please chose “Redeem Code” from “My Account” page, enter the code you received via email and your account will be upgraded.

Creating a Spelling student

First things first, immediately after account creation it is necessary is to create one or more students in order to use SBN.
An SBN account is able to handle one or multiple student, depending on the plan.
At least one student must be entered to use Spelling Training features.
To create student, click on your profile menu (the one labeled with your nickname), choose “My Students”, and then click the “Add Student” button.
Fill in all the fields in the form: Name, Family Name, Country, Grade, and Student type.
SBN has two type of students: Local Students and Invited Students, please check the following paragraphs for more information.
Once one or more students are created you can focus on training activity, feel free to read all the articles of this series to learn how to take spelling tests, manage words lists, use the spelling bee search engine and monitor your progress. 

Local Students 

Local Students are students used locally from the current account, available for free, student and family plans, simply the student can be used from within the same account that has created it. 

Invited Students 

Invited Students are designed to allow teachers to handle multiple students using their own accounts, this option is available only to Class account subscribers. 
Each Invited Student is created by the teacher, then an invitation code is sent via email to the student (or given by the teacher to the student). 
The student will then have to subscribe to SBN specifying the received code using the option  “I have an invitation code” when registering.
In this way the student account will be coupled with the teacher one, allowing students to do their home works using their own accounts, being at the same time under control of the teacher.

Below the flow to create invited student   

• Teacher creates the student (from a Classroom account) specifying “Invited Student” under the “Student Type” field. 

• Right after the student creation, a dialog gives the opportunity to send an invitation email to the student. the teacher can enter a custom message to send to the student. In alternative teacher can communicate the code to the students orally (or in any other way). 

• The student receives the invitation code and create his/her own account specifying “I have an invitation code” at signup, entering the code received via email or given by the teacher. 
• The newly created Student account is automatically coupled with the teacher’s one so the teacher can control the student.
  The teacher is notified of the coupling and the student is labeled as “Claimed” in the students list. 

Spelling Student Card

You can reach a student profile page anytime from your profile menu (the one labeled with your nickname), choosing “My Students”, then select the student of your choice from the list.
From the student’s page you can access to the features related to a student and modify the student’s data, in particular: 

Edit
Change student data such as name, grade and country. 

Spelling Test
Start a new Spelling Test for this student. 

Statistics
Shows the student’s statistics page. 

Report cards
Show the list of tests taken by the student, linking to the respective report cards. 

Error List
Shows the content of the student’s error list.
All of the features offered by SBN are explained in the articles of this series.  

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