Ways to help your child with Spelling!

Here are some ways you can help your child study their spelling words! If they choose one a night they will be ready for Friday’s spelling test!

Type ‘Em - Type all of your spelling words on the computer you can even email them to me!

Fancy Letters - Use old magazines, or newspapers to cut out letters and glue them down to spell your words!

Spelling Baseball - Draw four bases on a piece of paper or set up four chairs to be the bases. Pitcher selects a word. If batter can spell it correctly, he moves forward one base. If batter cannot spell word, he remains where he is. Child receives point every time he passes home base.

Spelling Bingo

Snowman or Scarecrow (Hangman) - Draw a snowman with a hat and three buttons. Play like hangman (don't forget to draw the lines to show how many letters the chosen word has), but show a part of the snowman for each guess. The object is to guess the word before the snowman melts.

Water Wash - (Warm day required!) Use a paintbrush and water to write your words on the sidewalk!

Trace Around - Print one of your spelling words neatly. Take a colored pen and draw an outline around the word, closely following the shapes of the letters. Close your eyes and remember the shape. Now try to write the word.

ABC Order - Write your words in alphabetical order. Then write them in reverse alphabetical order.

Riddle Me - Write a riddle for each word.

Connect the Dots - Make a square of 4 rows of dots with 4 dots in each row. Before taking a turn, the player must spell a spelling word. If the word is correct, he connects two dots. When a player forms a square, he can write his initials in the box. Player with most squares at the end wins.

Story, Story - Write a story using ALL of your spelling words.

Sentence Please - Write a sentence for each spelling word.

Colourful Words - Use two different colour pens to write your spelling words. Use one colour to write the consonants and the other for the vowels. Do this one more time. Close your eyes and picture the word in your mind. Now try and write the word with just one colour.

Word search - Make a word search puzzle. Do it online here!

Memory Game - Make pairs of word cards. Flip them over and try to match the pairs!

Finger Tracing - Use your finger to spell out each of your words one letter at a time on your Mom or Dad’s back. Then it’s YOUR turn to feel and spell.

Practice Test - Take a practice test (this is especially good on Thursday night before the REAL test!)

Scrabble - Use Scrabble tiles to spell your words.

Sings Them Loud, Sing Them Soft - Have your Mom or Dad sing the letters of a spelling word to you in a loud voice. You echo the spelling and then sing it again softly. Now BOTH of you sing the word in the voice you choose!


Alliterations - Do any of your spelling words begin with the same sound? Even if they don't, you can write alliterations for them!

Stair steps - Write words as if they are stairs, adding one letter each time

Rainbow Words - Write a spelling word with your pencil. Now trace around the outside with a crayon, hugging the same but not touching the letters. Pick two other crayons to continue tracing outward!