COPPA Compliant
AI Speech Evaluation
UFLI Aligned
Grades K–2
No App Download
Spirit Sparring turns oral reading practice into an epic battle game. Students speak words aloud, AI evaluates accuracy in real time, and every correct read defeats a spirit enemy. Built for K–2 classrooms, aligned to UFLI.
COPPA Compliant
AI Speech Evaluation
UFLI Aligned
Grades K–2
No App Download
Simple Setup
No installs, no accounts for students. Just a class code and a browser.
Sign in, create a classroom, and choose your phonics world. Share the 6-digit class code with your students — no student accounts needed.
Students enter the code, choose a nickname and avatar, and land in the battle arena. The whole process takes under a minute.
A word appears. The student reads it aloud. AI evaluates accuracy in real time. Correct reads deal damage — wrong reads cost a heart. Spirits fall, XP flows.
Built for Classrooms
Designed with the Science of Reading in mind — and the chaos of a real K–2 classroom.
Groq AI transcribes and scores each spoken word instantly. Students get immediate visual feedback — no waiting, no teacher bottleneck.
Spiral Mode uses a Leitner box system to resurface words students struggled with — automatically, without any teacher setup.
Students earn experience points, build combo streaks, and complete daily quests. Intrinsic motivation meets extrinsic reward — the way games do it.
Each world maps to a UFLI phonics scope — short vowels, blends, digraphs, r-controlled vowels, long vowels, and beyond. Progress is locked to mastery.
See every student's progress, accuracy by phoneme pattern, and session history. Identify who needs small-group intervention before the next lesson.
Students join with a class code — no email, no password, no parent sign-up. Works on any device with a browser and microphone. Chromebooks, iPads, laptops.
Meet the Spirits
Students battle through 10 phonics worlds, each with unique spirit enemies. Defeat them all to master the reading code.
Student Avatars
Students choose their avatar at the start of each session. No accounts, no data — just a name and a look.
9 Practice Modes
Switch modes to target exactly what your students need — from blending to sight words to prosody.
Core word-level accuracy practice. Students read, AI scores, spirits fall.
Leitner box spaced repetition resurfaces missed words automatically.
Sight word practice — "the", "said", "was" — with bonus round battles.
Formal grading mode with per-student accuracy reports for teacher records.
Streak-based challenge — how many correct reads in a row can you land?
Phoneme discrimination — students distinguish "ship" vs "chip", "bat" vs "bad".
Blending practice — students hear phonemes and blend them into a word aloud.
Prosody and timing practice — students read phrases with correct pacing and stress.
Nonsense word repetition — builds phonemic awareness beyond memorized vocabulary.
For Teachers
Spirit Sparring gives you a real-time window into every student's phonics accuracy — without adding a single minute of grading to your day.
Class codes, not accounts. Students join with a 6-digit code. No email, no password, no parent permission slip for the app itself.
Per-student accuracy reports. See exactly which phoneme patterns each student is struggling with — sorted by world and word list.
Assign specific worlds. Lock students to the phonics scope that matches your current unit. No skipping ahead.
Works during centers, warm-up, or intervention. Students can run independently — you circulate and confer.
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