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Kids Spelling Games

Fun spelling games for kids that increase their skills.

Kids spelling games provide an opportunity for all learners. Spelling word games make even the most reluctant students join in!

Teachers and parents know that playing spelling word games with their students is critical to future success with the correct spelling of words.

Spelling games for kids are very motivating and encourages them to learn.

Even better are spelling games activities that encourage exploration and meaning making.

Games for spelling also show children that language is useful, and correct spelling does matter.

Why Use Spelling Word Games?

Kids spelling games make learning a pleasure for children. Brain research and learning has shown that the human brain is more receptive to new material and storing it in long term memory when the activity is fun.

Often people think that learning should be serious if children are having too much fun and talking with each other, then it is not really learning. This is absolutely incorrect.

There are many advantages to using games for how to teach spelling!

Games are a welcome break from the usual routine
They are motivating and challenging
Games help students to make and sustain the effort of learning
Games provide much needed spelling practice
They encourage students to interact

Classroom Spelling Word Games

These interactive games will help you with how to teach spelling effectively.

Partner Spelling
Each student chooses a partner. Using their fingertips, they write a spelling word on their partner's back.

Sign Language
Have iPads in your classroom? This is a fantastic app for kids spelling games that is so much fun to use! Your students will ask to do this over and over again.

Spelling Detective
Each group of students will need a newspaper page and a red crayon. They search the newspaper page for their spelling words (this works really well for high-frequency words). Every time they find a word they circle it. The group with the highest amount circled wins.

Poof! The Disappearing Words
Pull out the old chalkboards or dry-erase boards. Each student writes a word on their board, then uses their fingers to trace over each letter, one at a time and in order! Keep tracing until the word completely disappears.

Writing By the Color
Consonants are blue, vowels are red...Students write their words using the correct colors. You could have them work in teams, hold up their papers and award points for words spelled correctly and identifying vowels and consonants correctly.

Build A Word
Using letter tiles, have students build a root word. Now start adding prefixes and suffixes to build bigger words. Kids love seeing how easy it is to spell large words!

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