Learn to Spell with your iPhone

Perfect teaching aids for your preschoolers, kindergarten, elementary and primary school children, this app will help them recognize and spell, as well as learn the proper pronounciation, of more than 550 words that people are using everyday. The app uses pictures and voice to announce the letters that make the name of the object in the picture. You child will then touch the letters one by one and the correct word will be formed. The spelling exercises on the app are organized in varying degrees of difficulty. So it's like a ladderized teaching program. Other features of the app include - simple, clear, to-the-point design, studio recorded voice, musical short sound, swipe control, and easy reset to start over. (Price: $4.99) (Download link)

What better way of practicing your spelling skills than to play a great spelling word game, right? This iPhone game offers a fun and addictive spelling game. All you need to do is to shake your iPhone to scramble the letters on the screen and then begin finding as many words as you can in their correct spelling until the time runs out. The app's key features include - single player mode, online mode, daily challenges, connect to Facebook to import photos to your profile, and notifications when somebody wants to challenge you. (Price: $1.99) (Download link)

Want to prepare your child for his next spelling class test? This app will help him learn to spell with your iPhone by letting you create practice spell tests for your child. What's good about this app is that it uses your own voice to spell out the words. The app is simple to use as well and even gives you a report card and the option to retake the test to have a second chance at words that your child missed or spelled incorrectly. (Price: $2.99) (Download link)

This app certainly knows how to mix fun and learning when it comes to developing your spelling skills. It's a multilingual text-to-speech app that lets you enjoy hours of fun listening to voices around the world reading aloud words that you type. The app lets you enter your own list of words or use the app's more than 200 words to practice your spelling skills. In case you forgot, this app is just like the iSpeak and Spell of the 80's adapted for the iPhone. (Price: $0.99) (Download link)

There's no more appropriate time to teach your child to spell than when they are young. This app will help you accomplish that. The app has 4 common categories - animals, household, food and plants and contains around 43 common words the kids can learn easily. The app uses high-quality images and words are pronounced clearly to make it easy for kids as young as 2 years old to understand and recognize them. The app features learn mode, practice mode and quiz mode. (Price: $0.99) (Download link)