Practicing Spelling at Home
- Write each spelling word out three times.
- Practice your spelling words by doing a spelling bee at home!
- Practice spelling your words by spelling them out loud to someone in the car on the way to school.
- If you have letter magnets on your refrigerator, move the magnets to spell out your spelling words.
- Use scrabble letters to spell out your spelling words.
- Write your spelling words by tracing them out in a sandbox.
- Write your spelling words by putting rice grains, sprinkles, or salt in cookie sheet to trace out your spelling words. Ask a parent before executing this.
- Type or text your spelling list out.
- Make up songs to remember how to the spelling words.
- Write your spelling list in alphabetical order.
- Make a word search with your spelling words.
- Use your spelling list to play hangman.
- Create a Mad Lib in which you can only use the spelling list to fill it in. There are tons of free Mad Libs online.
- Get old newspapers and magazines and find letters to collage your spelling words together.
- Get an adult. They start but putting a letter down first, then pass it to you for the next letter. Go back and forth until the word is complete.
- Get cereal (or skittles) to spell out your spelling words then enjoy the cereal when you're done!
- Find or make play dough to mold out your spelling words.
- If you have letter beads at home, arrange the letters to form your spelling list
- Write the spelling word out in pencil. Then trace it in highlighter. Trace over that with squeezable liquid glue. Trace over the glue letters with small pieces of yarn.
- Take tongue depressors, clothes pins, or sticky notes and write letters on them. Arrange them to make your spelling words.
- Used cooked spaghetti to form your spelling words.
- Have someone scramble to letters of each word for you, then unscramble them.
- Use the American Sign Language alphabet to practice spelling.
- Trace the letters on someone's back and have them guess the spelling word and then switch so you can guess!
- Use a flashlight to trace your spelling words in a dark room or corner.
- Use Spelling City online or app.
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