Curated OER
Super Words
Challenge your middle schoolers' critical thinking and spelling skills with this fun activity. Each question prompts students to find a word that begins or ends with a certain letter and has a certain number of letters. You could use...
Curated OER
My Spelling Dictionary
Develop study skills and improve spelling at the same time. Every time I teach this mnemonic device, the kids thank me. It makes memorizing more manageable, and fun. To remember how to spell difficult words, make up a sentence using the...
Curated OER
Spelling Activities
Use this list of spelling activities all year long to help your class spell each week's list of words! This list provides 12 different ways for class members to practice their spelling. Learners identify vowels, consonants, synonyms, and...
Curated OER
Spell, Shoot, and Score
Students practice spelling, writing, and shooting baskets. In this spelling instructional activity, students practice spelling. Students are divided into teams. Students are given a spelling word to write. If the word is spelled...
Curated OER
Word Game Rules
For this spelling and vocabulary worksheet, students play a word game with classmates. Students decide on a topic and write as many related words as possible in 5 minutes. Students score the game according to the directions.
Curated OER
Short Stories Word Puzzle
In this word puzzle, students identify thirty four words related to elements of a short stories in a word puzzle. Examples include theme, symbol, rising action, and irony.
Curated OER
Super Spellicopter
Learners play a software based spelling game to increase their ability to spell frequently used words. They work on creative word work when they are not on the computer. They write words using different colored crayons and markers.
Curated OER
TKM Scramble
In this TKM scramble activity, students unscramble twenty scrambled letters. Students fill in the blank to complete the activity.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Coconut Vowels
This multi-level game asks students to match a correct vowel combination into a word to earn points.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Spelling Practice
Select a Dolch word list and listen to the word the dragon speaks. Click and drag the letters to spell the word correctly. Press 'hint" to see how the word is spelled or press "skip" to go to another word.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Word Search Puzzle: Word Search Creator
Need to practice your spelling words? Build your own word search using your spelling words with this terrific user friendly tool.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Spelling With Vowels: Turtle Dash
Come one, come all! The Turtle Dash is a multi-player game against friends of the computer that challenges your knowledge and speed to match vowel blends with consonants to form words. Match everything quickly and accurately to win the...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Spelling Bee: Introduction
This is an introduction Interactive Spelling Bee; it explains how the game works by grade level: Grades 1-8 listen to three stories separately and spell words from each story; high school students will listen to sentences and spell words...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Spelling Practice: Spelling Bees
A multi-player game to practice spelling skills and work together building a beehive before the clock runs out.
TES Global
Tes: Spelling Activity Matrix: 42 Ideas for Your Weekly Spelling Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This matrix contains 42 spelling activities that are based on Bloom's Taxonomy Six Thinking Levels. The activities provide opportunities for each learning style.
Primary Games
Primary Games: Boggle Quiz: Spring Edition
In this game, students read a clue and then click on the letters in the matrix in order to spell the answer to the clue.
Primary Games
Primary Games: Word Candy
In this game students make as many words as they can from the letters provided to earn candy.
PBS
Pbs: Caillou: Spelling With Caillou
In this spelling game, students will help Caillou spell words of people and things that are important to him. Students will drag and drop each letter block to spell these words.
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Amazing Spelling Fleas
Practice and play five games that build language skills like recognizing parts of speech, connecting images and words, spelling and completing words, and understanding simple sentences.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to make spelling cards grouped by spelling patterns. These cards are then used in a "Go Fish" style card game. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Abc & 123 Magnets
Children can practice alphabet, number, and punctuation recognition by clicking and dragging magnets to the refrigerator. Children will hear the letter or number when they click on a magnet. Practice writing names, birthdays or short...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Letter Fall
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Students hear a word and a sentence containing that word. They must catch falling letters in a pail in the correct order to spell each word...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Missing Letter
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. A letter is removed from each word and students must put it back. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Crossword
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The words are used for a crossword puzzle, and students must study the clues to see where each word goes. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach...