Spelling Activities

This is a list of activities that can help you practice your spelling words at home.

• Write each word five times using the look, say, cover, write, check method.
• Write a sentence for each spelling word.
• Have someone in your family give you a practice spelling test.
• Create a word find on the internet at: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
• Trace the words in salt, Jell-O, sugar, etc.
• Make your words with magnetic letters, alphabet stamps, play dough, letter tiles, beans, pasta, etc.
• Write your words on a whiteboard, on the computer, in shaving cream, or any fun way you can think of.
• Brainstorm any words that rhyme with your spelling words.
• Draw a picture of your spelling word.
• Say the word and tap the beginning of the word repeating the letters, have your child finish spelling the word.
• Play Bingo with past words.
• Write your word in different colors with crayons.
• Write your word with water and a paintbrush onto a cookie sheet.
• Draw a picture of what the word means to you.
• Write other words that mean the same thing as your word (synonyms) or opposites (antonyms)
• Make a list of words that rhyme with your words.
• Type your words on a computer.
• Create a poem using at least seven of your spelling words.
• On drawing paper, use the letters of each word in an outline of a picture depicting that word.
• Make mind maps for at least eight of your spelling words. Write the spelling word in the center of each map. Around the outside, brainstorm as many words as you can think of that relate to that spelling
word.
• Write jokes for five of your spelling words.
• Have someone else scramble the letters in each of your words on a sheet of paper. Unscramble each word.