Spelling Activity Ideas



FUN Weekly Spelling Practise for home!

~ Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check your spelling words three times.

~ Use a dictionary to find the meaning of all of your spelling words.

~ Then choose 2 OR more activities from below. (Try and do all of the activities by the end of the term!)

|Spellamodoodles: |Telephone Spelling: |Jumbled Words: |Powerpoint Spelling: |Comic Strips: |Tongue Twisters: |

|Use your spelling words to create |Using a telephone number pad or a |Jumble up the letters in your words |Using a computer, create a slideshow |Make your own comic strip using your |Using the first letter of your |

|pictures eg: an outline of a house – |calculator, translate the letters in |and have a friend or member of your |of your spelling words with sentences |spelling word lists OR Cut out comic |spelling word, make a same letter |

|instead of drawing lines – the words |your spelling words into numbers. |family try and work out what the words|and pictures. |strips from a newspaper and create |silly sentence. Eg: jolly Jill jumped|

|make the walls, etc. | |are, making sure they have the correct| |your own dialogue with as many |the jelly. |

| | |spelling. | |spelling words as possible. | |

|Secret Agent Words: |That’s an Order: |Super Sleuths: |Spelling Song/Rap: |Making Words: |Practice makes perfect: |

|Number the alphabet from 1 to 26, then|Put words into alphabetical order |Write a story using all of your |Create a song or rap using your |Use playdough, pipecleaners, clay, |Find a friend or member of the family|

|convert your words to a number code OR|(adapt – reverse order, etc) |spelling words except ONE! A friend or|spelling words and perform it to a |snakes, matchsticks etc to form words.|to give you an oral spelling test, |

|Convert your words to Morse Code | |member of your family has to examine |friend or members of your family. | |where you have to spell all of your |

| | |the story and find the missing word! | | |spelling words out loud. |

|Inside a word: |Word Search: |Say that again?: |Headlines: |Sand in the hand: |Crossword Puzzles: |

|Find small words within your spelling |Create a word search with all of your |Look up each word in a Thesaurus . |Use old magazines or newspapers to cut|At the beach or in a pit, write your |Student designs a crossword puzzle |

|words. Circle all the vowels and |spelling words and have a friend or |What other words mean the same thing? |out letters and spell all of your |spelling words. Check your spelling |using words from their spelling list.|

|underline the consonants. |member of the family find your words. |Make a list of two similar words for |words. Paste them on scrap paper. |and then write the next one. |Use picture or sentence clues for a |

| |Make it tricky for them! |each word on your list. Eg: angry: mad| | |friend or member of your family to |

| | |and irate. | | |solve the crossword. |

|Fancy writing: |Acrostic poems: |Spelling Letter: |Mnemonics: |Pyramids: |Fill in the gaps: |

|Write all of your spelling words in |Write your words vertically down the |Write a letter to a friend or member |Take a spelling word (e.g. artist) and|Write your words as a pyramid, |Have a friend or family member write |

|fancy letters, like bubble or rainbow |side of a page. Use each letter of the|of the family using all of your |build your own sentence to help you |starting with the first letter. Eg: |all of your spelling words with |

|writing. |word to write words or a phrase about |spelling words. |remember its spelling. A (Andy) R |School |missing letters. |

| |a related topic. Eg: | |(Runs) T (Ten) I (Inches) I (In) S |S |Then you must fill in the gaps. |

| |Bow | |(Small) T (Towns). |Sc | |

| |Oar | | |Sch | |

| |Anchor | | |Scho | |

| |Tide | | |Schoo | |

| | | | |School | |

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