Today's Classroom Activities :

Spelling Word Fun

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.

Rhyming Your Spelling Words
In this activity the students will be rhyming and playing with their own names and then doing the same things for their spelling words.

Spelling Basic Sight Words
This lesson is developed for students who have difficulty remembering spelling words.

Round Robin Spelling
The object of the game is to gain points by spelling words from the current or past classroom spelling lists. The students will spell the words as a group.

Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
Using the technique of spelling cheerleading, students integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities. Students cheer new words based upon the formation of each letter. Students then apply their knowledge of the spelling generalization by completing a word sort and writing a stapleless book that describes the y generalization.