Spelling Activities for Kids

Explore fun and engaging spelling activities for kids that make learning to spell enjoyable! These activities help children improve their spelling skills, expand their vocabulary, and enhance their understanding of phonics and word patterns.

Spelling with Playdough

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Spelling with Play Dough is a fun way to help kids grasp the spelling of words easier.

My older kids and I ditched the old spelling-list-and-test routine. Instead we sort words into families and look for patterns, and playdough makes it way more fun. Shaping each letter by hand slows kids down and gets more senses involved, which helps the spelling patterns stick. Ages 5 to 9 Time 15 to 20 minutes … Read more

Shaving Cream Sort and Spell

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This week we have been trying out a lot of different spelling activities as my daughter makes her way through her Words Their Way spelling list. So far this game of Shaving Cream Sort and Spell has been my daughter’s favorite — how could it not be for a kid that LOVES sensory messes?!

This game of shaving cream sort and spell is an awesome way to get children examining and manipulating their spelling words!

If you are not familiar with Words Their Way, it is a program that focuses on getting kids to examine and manipulate their spelling words instead of just memorizing them. We have been having a lot of fun with it!

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Word Families Lego Sort

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This game of word families lego sort is an awesome way to work on a Words Their Way spelling list!

This year my daughter has been working her way through a spelling development program called Words Their Way. If you are not familiar with Words Their Way I highly suggest you check it out. It is an awesome program for helping kids work on their phonics, vocabulary, and spelling in a way that goes further than just memorization. This game of Word Families Lego Sort is one of the many activities that we do to work on her Words Their Way weekly spelling list.

This game of word families lego sort is an awesome way to work on a Words Their Way spelling list!

When children sort words in games such as this they are engaged in the process of searching, analyzing, comparing, and contrasting. These problem solving skills help teach children how to form generalizations that can be applied when they come across new words that they may not know.

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