Today's Classroom Activities :

Spelling Classroom Activities

Scrambled Spellers
Language Make some flowers with a different letter in each petal. Have students identify the words. Use vocabulary and spelling words from throughout the entire year. Post a few each day as brain teasers.

Repetition Reality
Study Skills Repetition really does work when it comes to studying certain things like multiplication tables or spelling words. Have struggling students listen to tapes of multiplication problems and enter the problems on a calculator at the same time so they are seeing, hearing and touching the problem all at once. Make auditory spelling tapes for students and have them listen to the tapes and type the words on the computer in bold, colorful letters.

Bring Spelling to Life
Spelling/Art Print the letters of a noun or spelling word in large, haphazard fashion on a background paper. Around the letters draw and color small pictures that might be associated with that word.

Maryann Manning writes about Invented Spelling and how with the right amount of time and patience, your "inventive" spellers can make the transition to being conventional spellers.

Spelling it Out – There are five types of spellers in our classrooms – find out which types you're teaching.

Parent Activity
Spelling/Physical Activity Make practicing spelling words at night fun by incorporating the use of a jump rope or a basketball. After you ask the word, have your child bounce or jump to each letter of the word, finishing with the word itself on the last bounce or jump. It will make practice time fun and successful.