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FUN WAYS
TO PRACTICE YOUR WORDS
Thanks to Mrs. Ross for many of these ideas.
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• GAME: Play the Spelling Mover Game. Click
here to go to the game.
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| • KARATE SPELLING: We always do
Karate Spelling before our test. The teacher announces the
word. Then the students punch the air for each letter, as
they spell the word orally. If a letter is tall, such as a
'b' or a 'k', we punch up high. If the letter only touches
the mid-line of the paper, we punch forward. If the letter
goes below the line, such as a 'g' or a 'y', we punch down.
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| • RAINBOW WORDS: Write rainbow
words like this. Students write each spelling word with a
crayon. They then go back and trace each word with a different
color crayon two more times. |
| • MAGNETIC LETTERS: Spell words
with magnetic letters on cookie sheets. |
| • ALPHABET STAMPS: Use alphabet
stamps and let them stamp out their words on paper. |
| • STEP WORDS: Write words as "stairsteps"
on graph paper like this:
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| • WORD SEARCH:
Make a word search with the spelling words on graph paper and
give to a friend. |
| • WIKKI STICKS:
Use Wikki Sticks or pipe cleaners to bend the sticks into the
desired letters to form each spelling word. After forming the
Wikki Sticks, do a crayon rubbing of each word on a piece of
paper. |
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• TEXT MESSAGING: The teacher
prepares a paper with the spelling words written according to
the key pad of a cell phone. For example, c-a-t would be 2-2-8
(C is on the 2 button, A is on the 2 button, and t is on the 8
button of a phone pad). Students will look at a telephone key
pad to figure out the spelling word. They will write the
spelling word on the paper the teacher has prepared. |
