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Friday, February 8, 2019

30 Ways to Practice Your Spelling Words

Silly sentences -Use all your words in ten sentences 

Picture words - Draw a picture and write your words in the picture. 

Words without Vowels - Write your words replacing all vowels with a line. 

Words without Consonants - Same as above but replace consonants with lines. 

Story words - Write a short story using all your words. 

Scrambled words -Write your words, then write them again with the letters mixed up. 

Wordsearch -Make a wordsearch with a friend, then trade and solve. 

Surround words - Write your words on graph paper and outline in colors. 

Ransom words - Write your words by cutting out letters in a newspaper or magazine and glue them on a paper. 

Words-in-words - Write your word and then write at least 2 words made from each. 

Delicious words - Write your words in whipped cream, peanut butter, or anything you can eat! 

Good Clean Words -Write your words in shaving cream on a counter or some other surface that can be cleaned safely. 

Dirty Words - Write your words in mud or sand. 

Pasta Words - Write your words by arranging alphabet pasta or Alphabits. Glue on paper or bring me a note from a parent and do on a table or counter at home. 

Reversed words - Write your words in ABC order -backwards! 

3D words - Use modeling clay rolled thinly to make your words. Bring a note if done at home. 

Create an activity - Can you think of a fun way to do your spelling activities? Try it out! 

Magazine words - Use an old magazine or newspaper and find your word. Cut it out and glue it on paper. 

Cheer your words - Pretend you are a cheerleader and call out your words! (We will do this as a group activity.) Sometimes you'll yell, sometimes you'll whisper! 

Sound Words - Use a tape recorder and record your words and their spelling. Then listen to your tape, checking to see that you spelled all the words correctly. 

X Words - Write two words having one common letter so they criss-cross. 

Other Handed - If you are right-handed, write with your left, or vice versa. 

Choo-Choo Words - Write the entire list end-to-end as one long word, using different colors of crayon or ink for different words. 

Telephone Words - Translate your words into numbers from a telephone keypad. 

Flash-writing - In a darkened room, use a flashlight to draw letters in the air. 

Newspaper Words - Search a newspaper page from top to bottom, circling each letter of a word as you find it. 

Popsicles - Make words using popsicle sticks. 

Secret Agent Words - Number the alphabet from 1 to 26, then convert your words to a number code. 

Etch-A-Word - Use an Etch-A-Sketch to write your words. 

Morse Code - Convert your words to Morse Code

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Spelling Test Forms


This is one of the forms I use for my students who have trouble with spelling tests. It is what I do to differentiate instruction for spelling tests. I make a form each week that has a space for each letter in the spelling words. If word #1 has five letters the #1 answer has a dash line for each letter. If word #2 has 3 letters then #2 has a dash line for each letter. These students also have a shorter list of words that they are responsible to learn. If the class has 11 words on their test, my Title students may only have 6. This has worked well for me and it satisfies the Title teacher for differentiation. A set of 40 spelling forms can be purchased on my TPT site. These forms have spaces for 20 words. We never have 20 words, but some classes do. We just use the number of lines we need. My graphics are created by ThistleGirl Designs. These graphics are copyrighted and can not be changed or shared by anyone that is not a licensed reseller.