Spelling Activity List
Choose one activity to complete with your child each night
Example of what it looks like to do rainbow Words:
- Write small/medium/large words (write each word using the smallest letters you can possibly write, then write with normal sized letters and finally jumbo sized)
- Put words in ABC order
- Draw a picture to go with each word
- Write a story using as many words as you possibly can
- Make a word search using all of the words
- Type and say each word 3 times
- Make a mini-book using all of the words
- Make a flash card for each word
- Use your fingers to write the words on a tray covered with salt or a bag filled with pudding or shaving cream. Say each word
- Take a practice test
- Write each word on two index cards and play concentration/memory
- Rainbow write words (write and say the word with one color. Then trace and say the word with a second color and then repeat with a third color)
- Use scrabble tiles to spell the words
- Use items at home (yarn, string, pipe cleaner, play dough, magnetic letters) to spell each word
- Write each word and circle the vowels (a, e, i, o, u)
- Write each word and circle the consonants
- Create a cheerleader chant for each word (Give me an S, give me a P, give me an E, give me an L, give me an L, what's that spell? SPELL!)
- Use each word in a sentence. Underline the word in the sentence.
- Draw a picture and "hide" the words in the picture for your child to find
- Find the words in a magazine or newspaper. Cut them out and glue them on to another piece of paper to make a collage
- Say and spell the words into a recorder. Then, listen to yourself saying and spelling the words aloud.
- Write a letter to someone using as many of the words as possible
- Sky write the words (write the words in the air with index finger and arm stretched out straight)
- Visit http://www.spellingcity.com enter your child's word list and let them select a free game to play which is customized to their spelling words
Example of what it looks like to do rainbow Words: