Welcome to the
Scholarskills STARS Spelling League.
What is the Scholarskills spelling league?
The ScholarSkills Spelling League (or SSL) is an association of students preparing to compete in the ScholarSkills National Vocabulary Bee and the Scripps regional and national spelling bees. Students must be members of the Spelling League to receive free instruction in analytical spelling and vocabulary. However, member-students are not required to participate in the vocabulary or spelling bees.
Resources such as books and online mastery courses are highly recommended but not mandatory.
What is the ScholarSkills Vocabulary-Bee (or Vocab-Bee)?
The ScholarSkills Vocabulary-Bee (or Vocab-Bee) is an intensive word-mastery competition that requires students to build, analyze, spell, define, and contextualize words. Students must demonstrate a thorough knowledge of words' denotative and connotative natures and identify the grammatical and analogical relationships between them. The Vocabulary-Bee is a team-based, buzzer-styled competition enhanced with game show elements. Each year, the tournament will begin in September and conclude in June.
SSL was founded by ScholarSkills for STARS, an academic non-profit institution dedicated to helping students build foundations for excellence in spelling, reading, and writing. ScholarSkills is an official sponsor of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the ScholarSkills National Vocabulary Bee.
Resources such as books and online mastery courses are highly recommended but not mandatory.
What is the ScholarSkills Vocabulary-Bee (or Vocab-Bee)?
The ScholarSkills Vocabulary-Bee (or Vocab-Bee) is an intensive word-mastery competition that requires students to build, analyze, spell, define, and contextualize words. Students must demonstrate a thorough knowledge of words' denotative and connotative natures and identify the grammatical and analogical relationships between them. The Vocabulary-Bee is a team-based, buzzer-styled competition enhanced with game show elements. Each year, the tournament will begin in September and conclude in June.
SSL was founded by ScholarSkills for STARS, an academic non-profit institution dedicated to helping students build foundations for excellence in spelling, reading, and writing. ScholarSkills is an official sponsor of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the ScholarSkills National Vocabulary Bee.
Start A School or Community Spelling team!
Educators and community leaders who join the ScholarSkills Spelling League can start a school spelling team or school spelling teams to compete in spelling and vocabulary tournaments against other teams at city, county, and state levels. Students from grades 2-8 can join spelling teams. These teams will meet during the week as part of an academic, extracurricular program to learn the vocabulary and spelling skills they need to succeed in school, academic competitions, and life.
