Franklin Electronics SA-206 Spelling Ace with Thesaurus
- Perfect for students
- Large format keyboard for easy typing
- 16-character scrolling display
- 8 word games including anagrams, flashcards, and spelling bee
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Spell it right the first time with the Franklin Spelling Ace with thesaurus. The Spelling Ace gives you access to 100,000 words and 500,000 synonyms and antonyms. Dictionary features include phonetic spell correction, a user list, and crossword solver. The Spelling Ace comes with eight word games, including anagrams, flash cards, and spelling bee. It also features context-sensitive help text, and a scrolling LCD screen with contrast control. The Sp… More >>
Franklin Electronics SA-206 Spelling Ace with Thesaurus
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This product is very cool for a quick reference.The games like “Hangman”and “Speeling Bee” are exellent becuase I’m having fun and at the same time learning new volcabulary.I’ve seen an improvement in my speeling grade.In my opinion,it is the best electronic spelling dictionary you can get for a geat price.
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased this product for one of my 6th grade students who is a reluctant writer due to his poor spelling ability. He hasn’t let it out of his sight since he received it! He now has greater confidence and is producing quality work. He finds it easy to use and he says that it is teaching him how to spell new words. It was great value for the money!
Rating: 5 / 5
I have owned three of these. I like the black color easy to read numbers.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve had one of these for over 14 years now, when they first started coming out. My brother has the original one I got freshman year in high school, and I have one I got junior year. This item is still very much the same as it was 14 years ago, just a little sleaker and smaller. Very easy to use, turn on, type the word, and search. It still has thesaurus and games, and as reviews below mention, occasionally still brings up entertaining words if you are as bad of phonetic speller as I am. This item is excellent to save you from digging through pages of a dictionary in search of just a spelling, and not the definition. A must if you can’t even get the first 3 letters square like I do looking up words. Most of these models will also play hangman with you, amongst a few other games to try and work with your spelling skills. The spelling ace my brother still has actually contained many definitions. These little machines are worth their weight in gold for highschoolers and college folks writing paper, even with spell check on the computer.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Franklin Spelling Ace is pretty good with games, thesaurus, and spell check, but the display was designed poorly. The screen has huge print and you have to scroll constantly to read the full definition of a word. The auto scrolling is too slow and it can very tedious to read definitions. There is a list feature to put in your own words for future reference. The games are enjoyable. I originally got this a few years ago hoping to use it as a quick dictionary, but many of the words I looked up either weren’t included or didn’t have a definition. Also, similar words all had the same exact definitions, which didn’t help when trying to find the best word to use in a situation or when trying to distinguish one word from another. If you are in elementary school it should be a good tool, but if you are older you should consider a better tool for more quality defintions.
Rating: 3 / 5