Spelling Activities

Spelling Is a Hit!
Spot the Spelling Mistakes
Before playing the game, you will need to have Prepare in advance a page of text
a flyswatter and you will need to create a game board. The that is grade appropriate. Build into that text a set
game board can be drawn on a brightly colored shower number (perhaps ten) spelling errors. Provide
curtain liner. Use a magic marker to print large and boldly students with a copy of the text, or write the text on a
the letters of the alphabet from A to Z. If your students are
transparency and display it for the whole class to
in the primary grades, write the letters in ABC order. If
your students are older, mix up the letters of the alphabet. see. Challenge students to work on their own or in
Put each students name on a piece of paper or a Popsicle pairs to spot all the spelling errors. They should write
stick and drop them in a container. Draw one name at a on a piece of scrap paper the ten words as they are
time, call out a spelling word; that person must grab the spelled in your text and as they should be spelled.
flyswatter and swat each letter on the shower curtain liner Who will be the first to find and correctly spell all ten
as he or she spells the word aloud. words?
Wheel of Fortunes- Sentences From A to Z
This is a simple classroom adaptation of the Write the following sentence on a board or chart:
popular TV game show. Simply draw on a transparency
the puzzle squares that represent the letters in a common
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
title, a famous person's name, or some phrase students
should know; be sure to identify spaces between words Tell students that this is a very unique sentence,
with spaces between puzzle squares. Divide the class into and ask them if they can tell you why that is so. After
two teams. Let the first person on one team ask for a letter giving students time to consider your question, share with
that might be in the puzzle. If the letter is in the puzzle, them that the sentence uses every letter in the alphabet.
write it in the appropriate square(s). Then that person has (Some letters are used twice.) Challenge them to write
a chance to guess the puzzle. If the person cannot guess, another sentence that accomplishes that same goal! Who
the next person on the team gets to guess a letter. Play will write the shortest sentence that includes every letter of
proceeds in that way. When a player asks for a letter that the alphabet?
is not in the puzzle, play jumps to the other team.
Chain Spelling Connection Challenge -
Go right around the classroom with this activity. Start by This activity is a variation on the Chain
calling out a word -- any word. The next person has 10 seconds to call
Spelling activity above. Go right around the classroom with
out a new word that begins with the last letter of the word you called out.
And the activity keeps going For example, if you call out chain, the next this activity. Start by calling out a word -- any word. The
person might call out night, then the next person might call next person has 10 seconds to call out a new word
out table, then elephant, tree, egg, garbage How long can you keep up that relates in some way to the word you called out. And
the spelling chain before somebody makes a mistake or someone runs
the activity keeps going For example, if you call
out of time? Can you make it all the way around the classroom?
out house, the next person might call out roof, then the
Variation: To make the game more difficult for older students, you might next person might call out chimney, then Santa, sack,
narrow the possibilities by providing a category. For example, all words potato, garden, seeds, watermelon How long can students
called out will have to relate to a category such as
keep making connections before somebody gets stumped
Words of 6 letter or more
or runs out of time? Can you make it all the way around
Cities and Countries
Science Words
the classroom?
Adjectives
Famous People's Last Names
.
Spelling-as-a-Team Game
Organize students into groups, and provide each group with a set of alphabet cards, one card per
letter. Students will divide the alphabet cards among themselves. Tell students you will call out a spelling word and a
point value for that word (based on its difficulty). When the word is called the groups go to work to spell the word. The
student who holds the card that represents the first letter in the word must call out the letter and place it on the desk in
front of his or her group members. Then the person who holds the secoletter does the same thing Play continues until
the word is spelled.
Note: If a letter is repeated in a word, the student who held that letter must call out that letter again.
Players can leave a space to represent to place where that letter belongs.The first group to correctly spell the word (all
cards must be on the desk in order) earns the points. At the end of the game, the group with the most points wins the
game.

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Spelling Is a Hit!

Spot the Spelling Mistakes

Wheel of Fortunes- Sentences From A to Z

Chain Spelling Connection Challenge -

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